KDE will add option to choose between performance and autonomy, will improve Kickoff and prepare all these changes

Choice between performance and autonomy in KDE Plasma

Just a month ago, on my most discreet laptop I had Windows 10 installed and everything was going bad, very slow. To try to improve things, I disabled functions, effects and configured an option to forget about the battery and try to improve performance. This function is one of the novelties in which the KDE project and we will be able to use it in the future that will depend both on the graphical environment and on us.

So what announced a few moments ago Nate Graham in his weekly entry on the what's new in the KDE Community. It will depend on the graphical environment because it is a novelty that will arrive in Plasma 5.23, and from us, at least if we use systems like Kubuntu, because it will be necessary to use Linux 5.12 or higher, and that will not officially arrive on these systems until October.

New features coming to the KDE desktop

  • New energy profiles to choose between autonomy, balanced and performance (Plasma 5.23 and Linux 5.12 or higher).
  • The new version of Kickoff introduced in plasma 5.20 it will be greatly improved, with bug fixes, performance and accessibility improvements, the interface will be more consistent, and it will add community-requested features (Plasma 5.23).
  • Now it can be configured if the footer action buttons in Kickoff have text or not, and we can choose to show all energy and session actions at once if we prefer (Maxim Leshchenko, Plasma 5.23).
  • Sensor labels in System Monitor can now be changed and given custom text (David Redondo, Plasma 5.23).
  • The System Preferences Login Screen Page Synchronization feature now syncs the layout of screens as well, so that login screen user interfaces are positioned correctly on all physical displays ( Aleix Pol González, Plasma 5.23).

Bug fixes and performance improvements

  • The Konsole window is no longer a tiny rectangle the first time the application is launched (Konsole 21.08).
  • Okular now scrolls the correct distance using the PageUp / PageDown keys when its scroll bars are disabled (David Hurka, Okular 21.08).
  • The menu item "Start a slide show" in the Dolphin context menu is now translated (Yuri Chornoivan, Gwenview 21.08).
  • Opening the Digital Clock applet configuration dialog no longer closes the applet pop-up window if it was deliberately opened (David Redondo, Plasma 5.22.4).
  • When using systemd-homed, entering an incorrect password once at the login screen no longer causes all subsequent unlock attempts to fail (Gibeom Gwon, Plasma 5.22.4).
  • The Bluetooth widget now works correctly when placed directly on the panel, rather than when it lives in the systray (Nicolas Fella, Plasma 5.22.4).
  • System Monitor is now much faster to start (David Redondo, Plasma 5.22.4).
  • The grid elements in the expanded System Tray pop-up are now perfectly aligned with the pixels so they don't get blurry (Derek Christ, Plasma 5.22.4).
  • Using QTimer in the KWin script now works again (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.22.4).
  • In the context menu of desktop items, pressing the shift key to switch between "Move to Trash" and "Delete" now works when a submenu is open (Derek Christ, Plasma 5.22.4).
  • Global shortcuts for applications whose desktop files have uppercase characters in their names now work correctly, and their entries on the System Preferences shortcuts page now always show the correct icons (David Redondo, Plasma 5.22.4) .
  • Plasma notifications with embedded links now use the link color of the Plasma theme instead of the application color scheme, fixing bugs where these differed, such as when applying the Breeze Twilight theme (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.22.4).
  • Category lists on the Unsplash Picture of the Day wallpaper settings page are now sorted alphabetically, rather than semi-randomly (Arnaud Vergnet, Plasma 5.22.4).
  • Website bookmarks displayed in KRunner that come from a browser using the Plasma browser integration are now nice and crisp when using a high DPI scaling factor (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.22.4).
  • When opening the System Preferences user feedback page, Discover no longer appears briefly in Task Manager (Plasma 5.23).
  • In Plasma Wayland, global shortcuts work again while pop-ups that would otherwise steal focus (on X11) are open (Andrey Butirsky, Plasma 5.23).
  • Fixed a case where searching in Dolphin could cause the kdeinit5 process to crash (Ahmad Samir, Frameworks 5.85).

Improvements in the user's interface

  • The Dolphin Places panel now bypasses text when it is not wide enough to display everything, instead of displaying a horizontal scroll bar (Eugene Popov, Dolphin 21.08).
  • Each of Dolphin's zoom levels now has a different icon size associated with it; The size of the grid will no longer sometimes change but the icons will remain the same size (Eugene Popov, Dolphin 21.12).
  • Panels using the Adaptive Transparency feature now go into transparent mode when using the Show Desktop effect (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.22.4).
  • When mounting multiple devices, the Device Notifier applet now displays the "Unmount All" action within the hamburger menu instead of as the only button on a new toolbar that appears (Eugene Popov, Plasma 5.23).
  • When browsing through app lists in Discover, the icon of the source the app came from is now displayed inside the button that also displays the source name (Nate Graham, Plasma 5.23).
  • Kimpanel's candidate pop-up now looks better (Mufeed Ali, Plasma 5.23).
  • The question mark button in the title bar is now hidden by default for dialog windows (Nate Graham, Plasma 5.23).
  • Discover now shows the correct date of the latest version of an application for applications that do not set it correctly (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.23).
  • In System Monitor, the application-specific process list view is now sorted by memory usage by default, just as it does elsewhere (Felipe Kinoshita, Plasma 5.23).
  • Event indicator dots in the Plasma Calendar widget and Digital Clock popup are now more visible no matter what color scheme or Plasma theme you are using (Carl Schwan, Frameworks 5.85).
  • The "About" pages of Kirigami-based applications now display an "Get Involved" link that takes you to https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved (Philip Kinoshita, Frameworks 5.85).

Dates of arrival of these new features to systems with KDE

Plasma 5.22.4 is coming July 27 and KDE Gear 21.08 will arrive on August 12. At the moment there is no specific date for Gear 21.12, but they will arrive in December .. Frameworks 14 will arrive on August 5.85, and 5.86 will arrive on September 11. After the summer, Plasma 5.23 will land with the new theme, among other things, on October 12.

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, although the latter usually take a little longer than the KDE system.


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  1.   Carlos said

    Undoubtedly, the KDE team does a great and wonderful job, now, personally I think they should take a little more time between one version and another since the bugs are too many and generate quite a lot of headaches and that scares away or generates fear in stability.

    I still believe that they should, like the Linux Mint team, have a Debian-based version.