After the parallel article on GNOME, it is now the turn of KDE. Nate Graham, author of these posts, has made a decision throughout this week: your articles will no longer include as many bug fixes. In fact, the “Bug fixes and performance improvements” section has completely disappeared, being replaced by the “Significant bug fixes” section. Graham believes that posting so many bugs just gives a bad image, and it's actually something that happens even in the best families. The lists are still provided in the articles, but as links to other pages.
With the above explained, what you're posting looks a lot like what you've been posting so far. There are new features, interface improvements and important bugs are mentioned, but the articles will be shorter. It is also appreciated, as there have been some that have been well over 1000 words. The this week's article It's been called "Major Accessibility Improvements," and many of these changes will arrive alongside Plasma 5.26.
New Features Coming to KDE
- It is now possible to manage Samba share permissions remotely (Harald Sitter, kdenetwork-filesharing 22.12).
- The Plasma network manager OpenConnect VPN plugin now supports the “F5”, “Fortinet” and “Array” protocols (Enrique Meléndez, Plasma 5.26).
- Kickoff now has a new non-default “Compact” mode that allows you to see more items at once. When using touch mode, compact mode is automatically disabled to ensure Kickoff remains touch friendly (Nate Graham, Plasma 5.26).
- Global Themes can now change the order and layout of title bar buttons and enable or disable the “Maximized windows without borders” setting that disables the title bar for maximized windows. And they can also be turned on or off while applying a theme so configured in the Global Themes page of System Preferences (Dominic Hayes, Plasma 5.26).
- By default, the picture of the day wallpapers are not updated when the system is using a metered network connection, but this can be turned back on if desired (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.26).
Improvements in the user's interface
- Elisa can now open files from relative paths, not just absolute paths, which will make it go directly to my Windows partition (Bharadwaj Raju, Elisa 22.08.1).
- When searching with KRunner, the results for the “Software Center” category (which finds uninstalled apps) are always lower than the results for the categories showing already installed apps and settings pages (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma 5.24.7 ).
- You can now use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+S in the clipboard applet edit mode page to save and return to the main page (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.24.7).
- The Night Color page of System Preferences now allows you to use a map to choose a manual location, and displays a loading placeholder when using auto location mode and the geolocation service is still working on geolocation (Bharadwaj Raju , Plasma 5.26).
- The opening and closing animations of the Overview, Present Windows, and Desktop Grid effects now last longer and have a nicer release curve, making them feel much smoother (Blake Sperling, Plasma 5.26).
Major bug fixes
- Changing the Global Theme to one that has its own color scheme now immediately changes the color in all running GTK applications that are being themed with the Breeze GTK theme (David Redondo, Plasma 5.24.7).
- Fixed a major regression in multi-monitor support for the Plasma Wayland session that could cause screens to show no output (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 5.25.5).
- In the Plasma Wayland session, some applications like GIMP no longer appear in Task Manager while running (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.25.5).
- Fixed a major bug related to Task Manager (Nicolas Fella, Plasma 5.25.5).
In terms of bug fixes, only this list is mentioned here, but they continue to provide links to 15 minute mistakes, very high priority bugs y various bugs.
When will this all come to KDE?
Plasma 5.25.5 will arrive on Tuesday, September 6, although nothing has been mentioned Frameworks 5.97 will be available throughout today and KDE Gear 22.08 on the 18th of this month, with Gear 22.08.1 already on September 8th. Plasma 5.26 will be available from October 11. KDE Applications 22.12 does not yet have an official release date scheduled.
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.