KDE Plasma 6.4 Adding Support For P010 Formatted Videos, KWin Improving Pixel Perfection

Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 15 March 2025 at 06:36 AM EDT. 16 Comments

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekend update to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have been merged over the past week.

Some of the KDE Plasma highlights for this week include:

- Per virtual desktop custom tile layouts is implemented for Plasma 6.4.

- The "details" button on a system notification showing file transfer progress will now reveal a graph with the transfer speed over time.

- Improved KRunner search results for Plasma 6.4.

- KDE Frameworks 6.13 has implemented touch scrolling in open and save dialogs.

- Plasma 6.4 will fix a "notorious" Plasma 6 panel bug around multiple panels sharing the same screen edge.

- Plasma 6.3.4 improves the pixel-perfection of various KWin effects such as wobbly windows.

- Plasma 6.4 splits the KWin Wayland and X11 code.

- Support for P010 color-formatted videos for better power efficiency when playing full-screen HDR video content.

- Support for the Wayland input idle notification protocol in Plasma 6.4.

- Various other bug fixes and improvements.

More details on the KDE changes this week via Nate's blog.