KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his customary weekend blog post to summarize all the interesting Plasma desktop developments for the week. Most exciting in recent days is Plasma 6.5 receiving an initial system setup wizard.
Most significant this week is KDE Plasma gaining an initial system setup wizard. Plasma 6.5 brings this initial Setup Wizard as complementary to their existing Welcome Center and allows for initial user creation for OEM installs of the operating system and similar purposes. Beyond user creation it can also be used for typical first-run settings like selecting the keyboard layout and time zone selection.
KDE Initial System Setup is the name of this new setup wizard, or KISS for short.
Plasma 6.5 also now allows for plasma panels to become scrollable when they contain too much to see in one view.
Plasma 6.5 on the HDR front also has improved its tone mapping curve.
Plasma 6.5 also enhanced its System Settings’ Game Controller page with more information that is exposed through SDL.
As a performance win for Plasma 6.5, there is now a more lightweight timer for KWin’s render loop to slightly reduce resource usage everywhere. KDE Frameworks 6.18 is also bringing faster thumbnail generation to all KDE software. That faster thumbnail generation is coming thanks to punting the cache operations off the main CPU thread.
More details on these exciting changes for KDE Plasma this week via Nate Graham’s blog.
