after the note of This week in GNOME, with a separation of hours, the one that would be considered the original usually arrives, since KDE started with this much earlier. He started it in an initiative called KDE Usability and Productivity, where all kinds of developers and users could collaborate to make things better. The initiative was very successful, everything went very well, and at KDE they thought, why stop? This week in KDE.
In previous weeks, I think the last two, the project said that the 15-minute bug list had stayed at 81. They either didn't fix anything or just fixed the number of bugs they found. This time the thing has changed, since they have corrected two and they have several that will be solved next week. What comes next is the News list which have mentioned this morning.
15 minute bugs fixed
My list has dropped from 81 to 79.
- All notifications that were suppressed while in Do Not Disturb mode no longer flood the screen when we exit Do Not Disturb mode; instead, they just appear in the history popup, ready for us to read there (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.25).
- Folders in Recent Documents lists throughout Plasma now display their actual folder icons instead of a broken-looking "unknown" icon (Méven Car, Plasma 5.25).
New feature
- KRunner now has its own settings window instead of reusing the system-wide search plugins page in System Settings, and in that window it now allows you to disable the behavior where typing text while the desktop is in focus will open it ( Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.25).
Bug fixes and performance improvements
- Ark's "Extract Here" context menu items no longer do as much unnecessary work, making Dolphin's context menu faster to open and causing fewer hangs on network locations (Kai Uwe Broulik, Ark 22.04).
- Opening a new private window in Firefox using its Task Manager task context menu no longer sometimes opens the window with the HOME directory path in the URL field (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma 5.24.4).
- When using a global menu, closing the active application now clears the menu bar instead of leaving your menu there like a zombie (Jan Blackquill, Plasma 5.24.4).
- Window title bar buttons now invert as expected when using the system with a right-to-left language (Jan Blackquill, Plasma 5.24.4).
- KWin's blur effect no longer sometimes causes windows that use blurred backgrounds to flicker (Mathias Tillman, Plasma 5.24.4).
- Clicking the “Launch” button in Discover to launch an app now only launches one thing, instead of sometimes launching multiple things (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.25).
- When used in right-to-left text mode, a variety of QtQuick controls now display correctly, including sliders (Jan Blackquill, Frameworks 5.93).
- Showing the "Get New Widgets" window from the widget browser sidebar no longer crashes/freezes the rest of Plasma until it is closed (Alexander Lohnau, Frameworks 5.93).
Improvements in the user's interface
- GTK applications using the Breeze-GTK theme now fully match the new look and feel used in KDE applications (Jan Blackquill and Artem Grinev, Plasma 5.25).
- Plasma Wayland session touchpad gestures now allow you to reverse the direction of your fingers to cancel a gesture in progress, when the effect in question supports it; for now only Desktop Grid does it, but there will be more soon (Eric Edlund, Plasma 5.25).
- The "active work progress" notification icon in the system tray now shows the average completion percentage in its tooltip (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.25).
- The Media Controller applet now displays a tooltip indicating elapsed playback time when the slider handle is dragged (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.25).
- Recent document lists in Task Manager context menus can now contain recent things that are not files, such as folders and even abstract concepts like “Recent Downloads” and “Recent Connections” (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.25).
- Now Discover can warn about the risks of installing proprietary software (Nate Graham, Plasma 5.25).
- Discover now shows the size of installed apps and other content on your "Installed" page (Jonas Knarbakk, Plasma 5.25).
- The desktop context menu has lost its "Lock Screen" and "Log Out" items, to strip it down to what's relevant (Nate Graham, Plasma 5.25).
When will this all come to KDE?
Plasma 5.24.4 is coming March 29, and Frameworks 93 will be available from April 9. Plasma 5.25 will arrive as early as June 14, and KDE Gear 22.04 will land with new features on April 21.
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, although the latter usually take a little longer than the KDE system.