KDE continues its massacre of glitches that began two weeks ago

Last Tuesday, KDE He launched Plasma 5.20.2. At the time of its launch, Nate Graham had given us very little change over the weekends, and I personally doubted why considering that the 5.20 series had arrived with many glitches. The answer seems to be that they were misplaced or arrived just after your weekly note. This time, the developer input did speaks to us of many of those changes, but they are already available as of last Tuesday.

So this note, which they have called "Continuous Bug Massacre", is very long, but many of the news that advance us are no longer so, so we will not include them in this list. If you want to see the changes he mentions about Plasma 5.20.2, we recommend visiting Nate's blog. Below you have the future news list mentioned this week.

New Features Coming Soon to the KDE Desktop

• There is a new global theme "Breeze Twilight" with a dark appearance for Plasma and a light appearance for applications (Plasma 5.21).
• There is now an option to change the first day of the week in the Digital Clock calendar popup (Plasma 5.21).
• KWin's Desktop Grid effect can now be configured to activate only desktops on click, instead of activating both desktops and windows, if you click on a window (Plasma 5.21).

Bug fixes and performance improvements

• The Konsole "Manage Profiles ..." menu item now takes us to the right place (Konsole 20.08.3).
• The Konsole context menu now shows the correct number of "Open With ..." and "Copy Location" menu items in the correct place after right-clicking on several different kinds of things (Konsole 20.08.3).
• Middle-clicking on any of the tabs in Okular's sidebar tab bar no longer closes one of the open documents (Okular 1.11.3).
• Dolphin background daemon mode no longer triggers session restore, which should fix an issue with Dolphin always opening when logging into Fedora (Dolphin 20.12).
• Okular's –find command line parameter now works correctly if we feed it with non-Latin characters (Okular 1.11.3).
• Closing an open tab in Okular no longer causes the Ctrl + Tab shortcut used for tabbed browsing to stop working (Okular 20.12).
• KSysGuard no longer loses a lot of memory when left open for a long period of time (Plasma 5.20.3).
• Plasma icon applets that point to locations instead of applications work correctly again (Plasma 5.20.3).
• In a Plasma Wayland session, the "sliding pop-up" effect used for various panel widgets no longer suffers from minor visual glitches (Plasma 5.20.3).
• Discover no longer opens automatically when logging in when it was open when logging out, as this is not useful (Plasma 5.20.3).
• The "Highlight Changed Settings" feature in System Preferences now remembers whether it was on or off when you close and reopen System Preferences (Plasma 5.20.3).
• Double-clicking the "Highlight Changed Settings" button in System Preferences now turns it on and off as expected, rather than eating up the second click and leaving it in an inconsistent state (Plasma 5.20.3).
• Systray items for certain Electron apps that don't correctly set their titles will now display at least something sensible for text (Plasma 5.20.3).
• Plasma Wayland session no longer hangs when dragging something from an XWayland application to a Wayland application (Plasma 5.21).
• Plasma Wayland session no longer hangs when dragging a Kickoff icon to Konsole (Plasma 5.21).
• In a Plasma Wayland session, re-pasting text that was copied within an XWayland application works (Plasma 5.21).
• Reduced the amount of CPU resources that KWin used to draw hardware accelerated cursors (Plasma 5.21).
• KWin no longer tries to use a connected VR headset as another display (Plasma 5.21).
• The window minimize animation is no longer sometimes a bit buggy when using a multi-monitor setup while an application is playing video on a rotated monitor (Plasma 5.21).
• The KIO library now fully supports the preservation of extended attributes during common file manipulation operations (Frameworks 5.76).
• In a Wayland session, KRunner no longer takes up unnecessary CPU resources when visible, but nothing appears to be happening (Frameworks 5.76).
• Moving the mouse over different items in file open / save dialogs while the preview pane is open now causes the preview to always update correctly (Frameworks 5.76).

Interface improvements

• The two ways to maximize a split view in Konsole now behave identically (Konsole 20.08.3).
• Screenshots taken with Spectacle now appear in the Recent Documents list in the Places Panel that is viewable in Dolphin, file dialog boxes, and various other pieces of software (Spectacle 20.08.3).
• On the Online Accounts System Preferences page, errors connecting to external accounts are now displayed in the user interface instead of being silently ignored (kaccounts-integration 20.12).
• The "New Tab" button on the Konsole tab bar now has a tooltip (Konsole 20.12).
• Files and folders on the desktop can now be properly interacted with using a touch screen, including pressing and holding to emulate a right click (Plasma 5.21).
• KRunner search results no longer show uninstalled apps as prominently (Plasma 5.21).
• The System Preferences audio volume now has a sleek new design that is much simpler and dispenses with the multi-tab view (Plasma 5.21).
• The Rules page of the System Preferences window now supports the "Highlight Modified Settings" feature (Plasma 5.21).
• The System Preferences Task Launcher, Window Behavior, and General Behavior Pages now fully support the "Highlight Changed Settings" feature (Plasma 5.21).
• When using the settings to open files and folders with a double click, the System Preferences icon view now opens pages with a single click, not with a double click (Plasma 5.21).
• The context menu for file-based notifications now includes a "Move to Trash" item in case you suddenly realize that you don't need the file after all (Plasma 5.21).
• The bracket matching feature in Kate, KDevelop and other KTextEditor based applications now also matches angle brackets (Frameworks 5.76).

When will all this get to the KDE desktop

plasma 5.20 I arrive last October 13, and we already know that Plasma 5.21 will arrive on February 9 and Plasma 5.20.3 will do it next Tuesday, November 10. KDE Applications 20.08.3 will land on November 5 and v20.12 will land on December 10. KDE Frameworks 5.76 will be released on November 14.

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.