KDE has published the last news article for 2022 this morning. Almost all of those that have been included today will arrive with Plasma 5.27, the last version before making the jump to Plasma 6, and there is nothing that really attracts attention like yes they did the future Show, which will allow scoring before making the captures, or the window stacking system, that we'll see what's left, but there's hope that it's something like what Pop!_OS has been offering for a long time.
They have also had time to correct errors, although they no longer add all of them to this type of post because there are too many of them and many are small improvements that are hardly noticeable. Next you have the News list They have published today in the article called «end of the year treats».
New Features Coming to KDE
- The Information Center can now display OpenCL information on its own dedicated page, if the clinfo utility is installed (Linus Dierheimer, Plasma 5.27).
- In the Plasma Wayland session, KWin now sends pen tilt and rotation events to XWayland applications, which is useful for applications like Krita that want to receive those events but still use XWayland (Joshua Goins, Plasma 5.27).
Improvements in the user's interface
- The way KRunner displays time zone information has been substantially improved, making the output easier to parse and fixing a couple of bugs (Natalie Clarius, Plasma 5.27):
- If the night color has not yet been activated, clicking on the icon in the system tray takes you directly to the System Preferences page, where it can be activated and configured to suit the consumer (Guilherme Marçal Silva, Plasma 5.27) .
- Some System Preferences pages are starting to use a new way of organizing logical sections, which KDE hopes will make things easier to find (Nate Graham, Plasma 5.27):
- When using the default sidebar view, System Preferences sidebar items no longer display tooltips on hover, as tooltips are not very useful and get in the way (Nate Graham, Plasma 5.27).
- Discover now better presents system update details when using the “Offline Updates” feature (Nate Graham, Plasma 5.27):
- Typing a space while searching in the Overview effect now always actually enters a space character, instead of triggering the highlighted window when a window matching the search term appears (Niklas Stephanblome, Plasma 5.27).
- Critical notifications no longer appear in the Overview, Present Windows, and Desktop Grid effects (Nicolas Fella, Plasma 5.26.5).
- Task Manager can now be configured to show window previews when a grouped task is clicked, even if the feature to always show window previews when hovering over tasks has been disabled (Nate Graham, Plasma 5.27.).
Correction of minor bugs
- It is now possible to use KDE Connect to transfer files larger than 2 GB (Nicolas Fella, Frameworks 5.102)
- "Always use touch mode" setting now persists after reboot (Fushan Wen, Frameworks 5.102)
- Fixed a case where KWin could crash in the Plasma Wayland session when connecting a laptop to a docking station (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 5.26.5)
This list is a summary of the fixed bugs. The complete lists of bugs are on the pages of 15 minute bug, very high priority bugs and overall list. This week a total of 94 bugs have been fixed.
When will this all come to KDE?
Plasma 5.26.5 will arrive on Tuesday, January 3 and Frameworks 5.102 should arrive on the 14th of the same month. Plasma 5.27 will arrive on February 14, and KDE Applications 23.04 is only known to arrive in April 2023.
To enjoy all this as soon as possible we have to add the repository backports of KDE, use an operating system with special repositories like Kde neon or any distribution whose development model is Rolling Release.
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