Although KDE works hard to improve Wayland, it does not forget about X11. This week's news

High DPI improvements in KDE Plasma

Image: Nate Graham of KDE

One more weekend, Nate Graham posted a note in which he tells us about the news in which the team of KDE Community. In absolutely all his articles of this type he tells us about one or several improvements that have been made to WaylandBut today most of us still use X11, so they have promised to keep improving it. Not much, you do not need it, but they have advanced a novelty.

KDE has made great improvements to Plasma's high-DPI support in X11. They will start talking to us about it next week, but, if I'm not mistaken, Niccolò Venerandi has been posting videos on YouTube in which you can see how they are fixing some details, such as the edges of the applications. But what we have in our hands is this week's article, and this is the News list that have advanced us.

As new functions, today they have only mentioned one: you can search localized text (in our language) to find time zones in KRunner and Kickoff (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.23).

Bug fixes and performance improvements in KDE

  • Buttons that appear when hovering over entries in the Clipboard applet are sometimes no longer misplaced (Eugene Popov, Plasma 5.22.4).
  • A pinned System Tray popup no longer closes unexpectedly when its settings page is opened (David Redondo, Plasma 5.22.4).
  • Plasma panels reuse the correct graphics for specific border themes, as long as they are present (Obno Sim, Plasma 5.22.5).
  • In the Plasma Wayland session, the System Preferences shortcuts page no longer displays three "KWin" items; now they all have proper names (David Redondo, Plasma 5.23).
  • When using a high DPI scaling factor in X11 with Plasma's default scaling system (instead of the native Qt scaling, which is used in Wayland and when manually setting PLASMA_USE_QT_SCALING = 1), the large icons of the Task Manager, System Tray icons and Tool Button icons all over the place are now displayed in the correct size (Nate Graham, Frameworks 5.85). Graham says this is not the end; other things are still too small, but he's working on them too.
  • Recursive changes to directory ownership and permissions now always work (Ahmad Samir, Frameworks 5.85).
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Improvements in the user's interface.

  • The weather widget settings page now has a less annoying user interface for searching: the results list is no longer auto-focused after the search, and instead the results list can be navigated with the arrow keys. up and down arrow and press the enter key to select an entry while the search field is still in focus (Bharadwaj Raju, Plasma 5.23).
  • The systray highlight line for the active applet now touches the edge of the panel (Niccolò Venerandi, Plasma 5.23).
  • System Preferences no longer shows a question mark button in its title bar (Nate Graham, Plasma 5.23).

Arrival dates

Plasma 5.22.4 arrived on July 27 (There are a couple of new features included here) and KDE Gear 21.08 will arrive on August 12th. At the moment, and it seems that it will continue like this for several more months, there is no specific date for KDE Gear 21.12, but they will arrive in December. Frameworks 14 will arrive on August 5.85, and 5.86 will do so on September 11. After the summer, Plasma 5.23 will land with the new theme, among other things, on October 12.

To enjoy all this as soon as possible we have to add the KDE Backports repository or use an operating system with special repositories like Kde neon or any distribution whose development model is Rolling Release, although the latter usually take a little longer than the KDE system.


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