Plasma 5.26.3 arrives with Wayland improvements and continues to polish the penultimate version of Plasma 5

plasma 5.26.3

As tradition and Fibonacci dictate, two weeks after the v5.26.2 and this time at your usual time, KDE just announced the launch of plasma 5.26.3. This is being a series in which things have seemed to go quite well, unlike a 5.25 that arrived with more problems than expected. Of course, if we don't use Wayland, a section in which they are working to improve things, but they are still far from how everything behaves in GNOME.

Speaking of Wayland, Plasma 5.26.3 has added at least two more improvements to KDE's use of this protocol, both of which are listed below. And it is that KDE has published the full list of changes, but Nate Graham published on the weekends what he thought was important enough to advance it in his weekly articles.

Some of the novelties of Plasma 5.26.3

  • In Wayland, clicking and dragging something in Firefox no longer causes the cursor to get stuck in its "grabbed hand" state until a tab is dragged.
  • Also on Wayland, when using the default setting of "Legacy apps scale themselves", Steam and some other apps that use XWayland now scale to the correct and expected size.
  • Fixed one of the most common Plasma crashes when using Plasma Vaults.
  • Fixed a recently introduced bug that could make it difficult to tap the top right pixel on the screen to trigger the close button of a maximized window.
  • Fixed a recent regression in the X11 session that caused maximized windows to not maximize correctly when scaling was used.

plasma 5.26.3 has been announced a few moments ago, which means that your code is now available. In the next few hours it will appear in the KDE neon repositories, the KDE Backports, those of the Rolling Release distributions and, later, for the rest of mortals depending on the philosophy of their distribution.


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