KDE adds session auto-save in Dolphin and improved fractional scaling this week

The rhythm in KDE has gone down, but the hyping - "enthusiasm" for those who get angry when we use anglicisms - cannot do anything other than rise. There is still time, more than a month, but at the end of February a huge leap will come to KDE: in order from least to most important, a new set of applications with new functions will arrive, Frameworks 6, Qt6 and Plasma 6. A leap from that size cannot be given lightly, and there will be very few distributions that will use all of this when the time comes, with KDE neon leading the way.

An important fact is that both the graphical environment (Plasma) and its applications (Gear) They have already gotten into the branch, which means that any changes that are delivered to the "master" and are not backported will come out after what they call Mega-Release. In the case of Plasma, it will be already in 6.1, and in the case of Gear 24.05. And a note from the author who, without being involved in the development, imagines: that it is 24.05/24.06 and not 4/24.08 (three months and not XNUMX months difference) must mean that in August we will return to the usual calendar (XNUMX/XNUMX).

What's new in applications

• Dolphin now periodically auto-saves your open windows and tabs, so you don't lose state if the application crashes or the system reboots unexpectedly (Amol Godbole, Dolphin 24.05).
• In Dolphin, you can now configure whether backup and trash files are shown when hidden files are made visible (Méven Car, Dolphin 24.05).
• In Dolphin, you can now display a split view pane in its own new window (Loren Burkholder, Dolphin 24.05).
• Fixed an issue in Dolphin that could cause it to freeze when used to duplicate the same file multiple times (Eugene Popov, Dolphin 24.05).
• Okular now allows you to display pop-up menus on certain types of PDF documents that include them (Alexis Murzeau, Okular 24.05).
• Spectacle now supports more placeholders for screenshot and screenshot file names (Noah Davis, Spectacle 24.05).
• The Networks system tray popup can now indicate a network's channel in addition to its frequency (Kai Uwe Broulik).

KDE 6 Mega-Release

• The Plasma Edit Mode global toolbar now has an “Add Panel” button that allows you to add panels. With this button, the desktop context menu has lost its "Add Widgets" and "Add Panels" options, as the functionality is available in Global Edit Mode. This makes the menu smaller and less overwhelming by default (Akseli Lahtinen Nate Graham):

• In the portal-based “Choose a screen/window to record” dialog, items are now chosen with a single click, unless the dialog is in multiple selection mode, in which case a double click will choose one (because a single click only selects it). Also, in multiple selection mode, items have little checkboxes in the corner so we know we can select more than one (Yifan Zhu and Nate Graham):

Error correction

• Powerdevil no longer fails to log in when using the ddcutil-2.0.0 library and certain DDC-compatible monitors (David Edmundson).
• Some more work to ensure that visual glitches in QtQuick applications are minimized when using a fractional scaling factor (Arjen Hiemstra and Marco Martin).
• More robust KWin when restoring the configuration of multi-display arrays when some of the displays do not have their EDIDs (Stefan Hoffmeister).
• When using a weather provider that gives forecasts longer than 7 days (such as EnvCan), the right edge of the weather widget forecast is never cropped when viewed in the system tray (Ismael Asension).
• Your Plasma panels will no longer flicker strangely when certain full-screen games do something rather strange by repeatedly switching their windows between full-screen and maximized states (Xaver Hugl).
• The “Window Type” window rule, which didn't work in Wayland, has been replaced with a new “Window Layer” rule that works better for the purposes people typically use it for (Vlad Zahorodnii).

In total, 127 bugs have been fixed this week.

When will this all come to KDE?