Just yesterday, Manjaro released a new stable version of its operating system. The stable versions of Manjaro are simply a bunch of new packages, since it is a distribution with a Rolling Release development model, but something was missing: KDE plasma 5.25. And it is that, according to their community, there are several regressions that they have to fix, and it seems that it is true, since seven days ago They advanced that they were going to fix a lot of bugs in Plasma 5.25.1 and this week there are a lot of fixes accompanied by “Plasma 5.25.2” at the end of their explanation.
El this week's article at KDE it has been called a "crazy bug-fixing spree", and indeed many have been introduced. As we have mentioned, many of them will arrive next Tuesday, coinciding with the launch of plasma 5.25.2, and it is expected that by that time everything will be more stable.
As new features, they have only mentioned one: in a Plasma Wayland session, it is now possible to disable paste with the middle click, something that I personally will not do because I love it and I miss it when I have to use Windows (Car Méven, plasma 5.26).
15 minute bugs
The total number has dropped to 59 from 65. None have been added, 2 were other things issues, and XNUMX have been resolved:
- Windows restored in session are no longer restored to the wrong virtual desktops when using the Systemd boot feature, now enabled by default (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.25.2).
- In the X11 Plasma session, the "Show Windows" and "Overview" effect buttons no longer work only every other time they are clicked (Marco Martin, Plasma 5.25.2).
- Switching between Plasma widgets using the "Alternatives" panel now saves your settings, so if you go back to an old widget that was being used before, your settings are remembered (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.26).
- In the X11 Plasma session, the search icon displayed inside search fields in Plasma widgets and KWin effects is no longer comically large (Nate Graham, Frameworks 5.96).
Interface improvements coming soon to KDE
- Tooltip visibility for pages in System Preferences now honors the global setting to disable tooltips (Anthony Hung, Plasma 5.24.6. Original post said 5.24.9, but I doubt that is the case; I I assume it was a typing error.)
- The Edit Mode toolbar now splits into multiple rows when the screen is not wide enough to accommodate it (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.25.2).
- Discover now determines the priority of Flatpak repositories (when more than one is configured) from the flatpak command line tool, and changes the priority there as well if changed in Discover, so the two always stay in sync (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.25.2).
- The Pager, Minimize All and Show Desktop widgets now properly handle Panel keyboard focus (Ivan Tkachenko, Plasma 5.26).
- Entering or exiting the letter grid in Kickoff now plays a short animation (Tanbir Jishan, Plasma 5.26).
- When the wallpaper changes from one to the other, it no longer darkens slightly during the animated transition (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.26).
- The clipboard widget now uses a more appropriate and less visually cluttered character to represent tabs (Felipe Kinoshita, Plasma 5.26).
- Kirigami-based apps with sidebars in desktop mode no longer secretly display an invisible close button in the lower right corner of the sidebar that can be accidentally clicked to confusingly close the sidebar without being able to bring it back (Frameworks 5.96) .
- When app icons change on disk, Plasma now notices and displays the new icon in 1 second, up from 10 seconds (David Redondo, Frameworks 5.96).
- The "Battery and Brightness" widget now shows the battery level of connected wireless touchpads (Vlad Zahorodnii, Frameworks 5.96).
- The “Open With…” dialog seen in non-sandboxed apps now has a “Get more apps in Discover…” button, as does the different-looking dialog seen in sandboxed apps (Jakob Rech, Frameworks 5.96).
Bug fixes and performance improvements
- Elisa's playback slider works correctly again when the current track is longer than 3 minutes (Bart De Vries, Elisa 22.04.3).
- The remote desktop dialog for sandboxed apps now appears when expected (Jonas Eymann, Plasma 5.24.6).
- When running from a Flatpak, the Pitivi app no longer crashes on launch when using the Breeze cursor theme (Mazhar Hussain, Plasma 5.24.6).
- It is again possible to drag individual windows from one desktop to another in the desktop grid effect (Marco Martin, Plasma 5.25.2).
- In the Present Windows effect, it is again possible to activate windows that are on a different screen than the one used to write the text in the filter (Marco Martin, Plasma 5.25.2).
- Switching virtual desktops no longer occasionally leaves ghost windows (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.25.2).
- USB-C external displays work properly again (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 5.25.2).
- Fixed a variety of keyboard search, focus, and navigation issues with the new Present Windows effect, returning it to keyboard use in Plasma 5.24 (Niklas Stephanblom, Plasma 5.25.2).
- It is again possible to select desktops with the keyboard in the Desktop Grid effect (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.25.2).
- In the X11 Plasma session, tiled windows to the left or right no longer sometimes cause strange flickering (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.25.2).
- Screen locker no longer crashes if support for the Howdy facial recognition system has been manually installed (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.25.2).
- The highlighted squares reappear when hovering over the application panel (Ivan Tkachenko, Plasma 5.25.2).
- Using the new “Tint all colors with accent color” option now also tints the title bar, without also having to check the checkbox that explicitly applies accent colors to the title bar (Eugene Popov, plasma 5.25.2).
- Advanced firewall rules settings work again (Daniel Vrátil, Plasma 5.25.2).
- When using a traditional task manager, open tasks no longer spontaneously rearrange when moving a pinned app with the "Keep Launchers Separate" option unchecked (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.26).
- NeoChat account list online buttons are visible again (Jan Blackquill, Frameworks 5.96).
- Overlay sheets no longer sometimes have excessive bottom margins in desktop mode (Ismael Asensio, Frameworks 5.96).
When will this all come to KDE?
Plasma 5.25.2 will arrive next Tuesday, June 28, Frameworks 5.96 will be available on July 9th and Gear 22.04.3 two days earlier on July 7th. KDE Gear 22.08 does not yet have an official scheduled date, but it is known that it will arrive in August. Plasma 5.24.6 will arrive on July 5, and Plasma 5.26 will be available from October 11.
To enjoy all this as soon as possible we have to add the repository backports from KDE or use an operating system with special repositories like Kde neon or any distribution whose development model is Rolling Release.