KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly summary to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop developments for the past week.
Some of the improvements merged around KDE Plasma for this first week of July include:
– KDE Plasma 6.4.3 is bringing a change to KWin to not auto-generate low-but-not-1 scaling factors. The scale factors close to 1 but not precisely 1 end up producing a lot of blurriness that end up providing a very degraded user experience. Now just a value of 1 (100%) will be shown instead.
– Screencasting with Plasma 6.5.0 for a specific window will also now include any pop-ups that the target window creates.
– KDE has been seeing a lot of work on its own virtual keyboard with the hope of eventually replacing the Maliit virtual keyboard. A lot of work has been going on to this new KDE virtual keyboard although at the moment isn’t yet ready for end-users.
– Plasma 6.3.6 will fix an issue that could cause screen flickering when playing a full-screen game and switching away focus.
– Plasma 6.4.2 will fix a KWin crash if removing some of the keyboard shortcuts for the Task Switcher and then invoked it with any remaining shortcuts.
– KDE Frameworks 6.16 improves the system detection for determining the more powerful GPU for the “Run this program using the more powerful GPU” feature.
– Various other fixes.
More details on the Plasma changes for this first week of July via blogs.kde.org.
