KDE continues to focus on what's new in Plasma 5.26 and KDE Gear 22.08, but not forgetting Plasma 5.25 and the April suite of apps

New view of Flip and Switch in KDE Plasma

After gnome note, now it is the turn of the KDE. Between its news there are many that will arrive in future versions of their software, be it Plasma or KDE Gear, but they do not forget what is already available. The April app set continues to receive fixes, with the first ones ready for Plasma 5.25. Special mention for Wayland, who will also improve a lot in the future.

En plasma 5.25 Much has been polished from Wayland, but Plasma 5.26 will resolve issues experienced by many users using high DPI displays: applications that use XWayland can be chosen to be scalable. The rest of the news you have in the following list.

As for the 15-minute bugs, nothing special, or at least nothing good: they haven't fixed any and found another, so the list goes up from 64 to 65.

New Features Coming to KDE

  • You can now set minimized tasks in the task switcher to be sorted last, after all non-minimized tasks, which is how things work in the MATE desktop environment (Rachel Mant, Plasma 5.26).
  • Animated images can now be used as wallpapers, either on their own, or even as part of a slideshow (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.26).

Improvements in the user's interface

  • When something is dragged and dropped onto an empty part of a Dolphin window that is showing Details view, the drop is again interpreted as a drop on the visible view instead of the subfolder in the row under the cursor (Felix Ernst, Dolphin 22.08).
  • When opening a PDF document externally in a standalone app, Okular now appears in the list of preferred apps that can open PDF files as expected (Harald Sitter, Okular 22.08).
  • It is no longer possible to try (and fail) to remove distribution-installed SDDM login screen themes in the "Login Screen (SDDM)" page of System Preferences; now only user-downloaded SDDM themes can be removed, just like other similar pages (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma 5.25.1).
  • The “Cover Flip” and “Flip Switch” task switcher effects now use the same background skin as the Overview and New Windows Present effects, improving their look and making them more consistent in their visual style (Ismael Asensio, plasma 5.26).
  • In the Plasma X11 session, on the "Display & Monitor" page of System Preferences, the message that the machine needs to be rebooted for the scaling to take effect now includes a "Reboot" button that can be press to do it immediately (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.26).
  • Okular's Breeze theme icon now better matches its original icon (Carl Schwan, Frameworks 5.96).

Bug fixes and performance improvements

  • Fixed a way Dolphin could crash when used to search for files (Ahmad Samir, Dolphin 22.04.3).
  • External displays work correctly again with multi-GPU configurations (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 5.25.1).
  • Screen brightness is no longer stuck at 30% for people with laptop screens that declare a maximum brightness value high enough to cause integer overflow when multiplied using 32-bit integers (Ivan Ratijas, Plasma 5.25.1).
  • Fixed a common way that KWin could crash when display settings changed (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.25.1).
  • System Preferences no longer crashes when trying to install a cursor theme from a local theme file, rather than the downloader window (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma 5.25.1).
  • Desktop switching no longer sometimes leaves windows visible as ghosts in rare circumstances (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.25.1).
  • You can now drag individual windows from one desktop to another in the Desktop Grid effect (Marco Martin, Plasma 5.25.1).
  • Fixed a memory leak in Klipper, Plasma's clipboard service (Jonathan Marten, Plasma 5.25.1).
  • Breeze-themed sliders no longer display glitches when using a right-to-left language (Ivan Tkachenko, Plasma 5.25.1).
  • Activating the Overview, Present Windows and Desktop Grid effects with a touchpad gesture should now be smoother and not stutter or jump (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.25.1).
  • Tinting title bars with the active accent color no longer applies the wrong color to inactive window title bars (Jan Blackquill, Plasma 5.25.1).
  • System tray icons no longer scale strangely when the panel height is set to certain odd numbers (Anthony Hung, Plasma 5.25.1).
  • While a full screen window is in focus, KWin's "edge highlight" effect no longer displays when moving the cursor near a screen edge with an auto-hiding panel that wouldn't appear anyway because showing the auto-hide panels is disabled while a fullscreen window has focus (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.25.1).
  • In the Plasma Wayland session, videos viewed in the latest version of the MPV app will no longer appear with a small transparent border around it (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.25.1).
  • Using the properties dialog or KMenuEdit to edit an application's .desktop file that happens to be a symbolic link now works as expected (Ahmad Samir, Frameworks 5.96).

When will this all come to KDE?

Plasma 5.25.1 will arrive next Tuesday, June 21, 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.


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