KDE Plasma 6.6 continues seeing a lot of development activity while the Plasma 6.5 series is calming down after its first few point releases. Plasma 6.6 landed many more features and improvements this week.
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly status update in This Week In Plasma. Some of the KDE Plasma highlights for this week include:
– The KDE Spectacle screenshot recording utility has gained optical character recognition (OCR) support. This allows turning words within images into selectable text. This OCR support for Spectacle makes use of the very powerful Tesseract engine. Other KDE apps are likely to adopt similar OCR functionality moving forward.
– Plasma 6.6 will present better looking portal-based permission dialogs with a number of enhancements coming.
– The GTK theme chooser now lets the user preview the dark theme version too.
– Plasma 6.6 is increasing the level of visual fidelity when using a fractional scale even more.
– Plasma 6.5.3 fixes a case where KWin could get blocked due to many heavy I/O operations.
– For Plasma 6.6, a process that is crashing in a loop can no longer make the system run out of memory and freeze by the crash tracer trying to debug all the crashes. The issue is that DrKonqi was launching once per crash and in turn firing up the GDB debugger for each crash, etc. With Plasma 6.6, one instance of DrKonqi will run across different crash instances. Plus other improvements to avoid going overboard on memory use when dealing with these crashes in a loop.
More details on these KDE Plasma changes for the week via this blog post by KDE developer Nate Graham.
