This week marked the release of KDE’s Plasma 6.6 desktop as a very successful release that overall is in very robust shape and performing well. While Plasma 6.6 overall is in great shape, there are various bugs – including crash fixes – that have already been queued for the upcoming Plasma 6.6.1. KDE developers are also quite busy on the trek toward Plasma 6.7.
This Week In Plasma is out with its newest issue to highlight interesting developments. Plasma 6.7 is seeing more vigorous feature work now that Plasma 6.6 is past while there is some prompt bug/regression fixing coming with Plasma 6.6.1. Some of this week’s highlights include:
– Plasma 6.7’s Overview Effect will now let you switch between virtual desktops by scrolling or pressing the Page Up / Page Down keys.
– Plasma 6.7 on Wayland will now allow optionally synchronizing the stylus pointer with the mouse/touchpad pointer if desired.
– The System Monitor app and widgets will now respect your chosen “binary unit” choice in Plasma 6.7.
– Auto-generated scaling factors for a screen very close to 100%, 200%, or 300% will now round to the respective value for better performance and visual fidelity with Plasma 6.7.
– Meanwhile for Plasma 6.6.1 there are some KWin crash fixes already prepped around intensive input method usage to crashes with certain apps.
– A number of regression fixes and other bug fixes are also on the way for Plasma 6.6.1.
– Plasma 6.6.1 will also improve animation performance throughout the system by greater leveraging of the Wayland Presentation Time protocol.
More details on this week’s Plasma activity via blogs.kde.org.
