It’s been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma space with the start of a big new feature landing for the Plasma 6.4 desktop.
KDE developer Nate Graham published this morning the newest Plasma weekly development summary that highlights all of the interesting changes of the past week.
Most excitingly this week — or in recent times for the Plasma desktop — is that the Plasma 6.4 desktop will have initial support for the Wayland session restore protocol. This is the early work around xdg-session-v1 support for KWin. The Wayland protocol itself is still a draft protocol and there are some limitations but it’s a step toward allowing the KDE Plasma Wayland session management and being able to restore a previously-saved state. Toolkits and applications will need to opt-in to this Wayland session management.
KDE Plasma 6.4 has also been seeing some UI improvements, updates within Discover can now be started from the notification itself, and more.
With Plasma 6.4 the Plasma Browser Integration now supports Chrome and Firefox variants like LibreWolf and the Ungoogled Chromium builds when run within a Flatpak.
Plasma 6.4 is also delivering on better performance when using Night Light and changing the brightness.
Coming sooner than Plasma 6.4 is the Plasma 6.3.5, which will fix several additional KWin crashes. Plasma 6.3.5 will also fix a visual glitch reported by some NVIDIA users.
More details on these KDE Plasma changes this week via Nate Graham’s blog.
