We knew that they were going to fix many bugs in the latest version of Plasma because the next one was going to take longer than usual to arrive, but we didn't know that they were going to apply so many patches so soon. Not that it's as soon as it seems, many of them are already for Plasma 5.27.5, but Nate Graham of KDE He's telling us about a lot of bug fixes over the weekends, and more to be fixed until Plasma 6.0 is released. If it said that they were corrected soon, it is because there are still more point versions for 5.27.
As a new feature, just one this week, Skanpage now offers a preview feature where we can select multiple specific parts of the image to be scanned, or automatically separate the area into two pages, which can be useful when scanning books. . It is something that will arrive in Skanpage 23.08. What follows are the rest of new arrivals that they have ahead of us today.
UI tweaks coming to KDE
- Removed some minor elements from Gwenview's editing tools sidebar (still present in the menu structure) to make the window fit on a 1366x768 screen again (Nate Graham, Gwenview 23.08).
- Gwenview no longer appears in its own "Open image in another app" menu (Eugene Popov, Gwenview 23.08).
- Several improvements have been made to Gwenview's zoom UI: anywhere on the zoom slider can now be clicked to jump to that zoom level, and the zoom combo box is now easier to use with the keyboard (Eugene Popov, Gwenview 23.08).
- Plasma Task Manager window previews now display the correct text for windows that do not display your application name in the title bar or have been customized by the user (Nate Graham and Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.27.5 .XNUMX).
- The estimated battery life calculation has been refined to improve its accuracy (Stefan Brüns, Plasma 5.27.5).
Correction of minor bugs
- Filelight no longer sometimes fails to start when your drive is full, which was a bit of a pain since it's a tool you can use to see what's taking up all your space and clean it up (Harald Sitter, Filelight 23.04.1).
- In the Plasma X11 session, the "Open Containing Folder" functionality in various applications is now supported in Virtual Desktop and Activity, which means that we will no longer have the experience of an already open instance of Dolphin in a different Virtual Desktop or Activity being Focus and switch. Wayland support will happen later as it requires deeper changes (Méven Car, Dolphin 23.04.1).
- Spectacle's Rectangular Region selector now works correctly when using a multi-monitor setup with at least one monitor that has a scale factor less than 100% (Noah Davis, Spectacle 23.04.1).
- Several fixes have been made to the Skanpage interface, so the "rotate image" buttons now rotate the image in the expected directions, and the OCR language list is scrollable if necessary (Nate Graham, Skanpage 23.04.1).
- You can no longer crash Dolphin by repeatedly going in and out of Pick Mode (Felix Ernst, Dolphin 23.08. Link).
- In Plasma Calendar "Months" views, months no longer randomly and mysteriously lose their names (Harald Sitter, Plasma 5.27.5).
- Fixed various ways in which Plasma could crash after entering an inconsistent state when using certain types of multi-monitor setups (Harald Sitter, Plasma 5.27.5).
- Fixed a subtle UI bug that could cause imported VPN settings to not be saved to disk unless another setting was changed at the same time. (Nicolas Fella, Plasma 5.27.5).
- Mouse acceleration profiles now work correctly when using Libinput 1.3 or later (Ilia Kats, Plasma 5.27.5).
- Fixed several significant bugs found on the Flatpak Permissions page of System Preferences:
- No longer sometimes generates a broken overrides setup
- Support for custom environment variables has been fixed enough that we've re-enabled the feature.
- Adding new filesystem paths no longer sometimes interferes with the state of other list items.
- The "read-write" option for "All User Files" no longer disappears sometimes (Ivan Tkachenko, Plasma 5.27.5).
- Fixed a way that screen layout priorities could end up being scrambled under certain circumstances (Harald Sitter, Plasma 5.27.5).
- Clicking the mouse on various elements, including title bars drawn by KWin, no longer randomly crashes the application that draws the clicked element (David Redondo, Frameworks 5.106).
- Fixed an issue that could cause applications and Plasma to crash when used to move many files at once (Harald Sitter, Frameworks 5.106).
- Plasma no longer crashes when playing certain YouTube videos in a browser via Plasma browser integration, sometimes also when behind a proxy (Fushan Wen, Frameworks 5.106).
This list is a summary of the fixed bugs. The complete lists of bugs are on the pages of 15 minute bug, very high priority bugs and overall list. This week a total of 136 bugs have been fixed.
When will this all come to KDE?
plasma 5.27.5 will arrive on May 9th, KDE Frameworks 106 should arrive on the 13th of the same month and there is no confirmed date on Frameworks 6.0. KDE Gear 23.04.1 will be available from May 11, 23.08 will arrive in August, and Plasma 6 will arrive in the second half of 2023.
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.
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