KDE Plasma 6.7 To Support ICC Profiles In HDR Mode, Direct Scan-Out Improvement
KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing additional Plasma 6.7 desktop features ahead of the stable release due out in mid-June.
This Week in Plasma is out with its newest issue to outline the latest changes merged ahead of Plasma 6.7 as well as some notable fixes benefiting the current Plasma 6.6 stable series.
One of the big features this week is support for ICC color management profiles for displays/monitors when running in the KWin's high dynamic range (HDR) mode. Plasma 6.7 is also allowing users to disable or control the intensity of the adaptive backlight modulation feature found on many newer AMD Ryzen laptops.
Another nice improvement for Plasma 6.7 that landed this week and already covered on Phoronix is much better performance for CPU-based rendering such as when using QtWidgets.
Plasma 6.7 is also improving KWin's heuristics for when it can use direct scan-out for better performance and power conservation of full-screen windows. That stems from a bug report over a game working with direct scan-out when running under XWayland but not working under Proton-GE with Wayland.
KDE Discover in Plasma 6.7 will also better de-duplicate apps present in both system and user Flatpak installations as another nice improvement for the week.
Meanwhile coming in as a fix for Plasma 6.6.5 is the Portal-based dialog to add launchers is now actually working.
More details on the interesting KDE Plasma changes this week can be found via the This Week in Plasma blog.
This Week in Plasma is out with its newest issue to outline the latest changes merged ahead of Plasma 6.7 as well as some notable fixes benefiting the current Plasma 6.6 stable series.
One of the big features this week is support for ICC color management profiles for displays/monitors when running in the KWin's high dynamic range (HDR) mode. Plasma 6.7 is also allowing users to disable or control the intensity of the adaptive backlight modulation feature found on many newer AMD Ryzen laptops.
Another nice improvement for Plasma 6.7 that landed this week and already covered on Phoronix is much better performance for CPU-based rendering such as when using QtWidgets.
Plasma 6.7 is also improving KWin's heuristics for when it can use direct scan-out for better performance and power conservation of full-screen windows. That stems from a bug report over a game working with direct scan-out when running under XWayland but not working under Proton-GE with Wayland.
KDE Discover in Plasma 6.7 will also better de-duplicate apps present in both system and user Flatpak installations as another nice improvement for the week.
Meanwhile coming in as a fix for Plasma 6.6.5 is the Portal-based dialog to add launchers is now actually working.
More details on the interesting KDE Plasma changes this week can be found via the This Week in Plasma blog.