KDE Plasma 6.7 Addresses 5 Year Old Request For Easier Microphone Testing
It's been another busy week in the KDE space as Plasma developers continue working on new feature activity for the big Plasma 6.7 release.
This Week in Plasma is out with its latest issue to summarize the key developments in the Plasma world over the past week. This week some of the most interesting highlights include:
- A five year old bug report / feature request for having a GUI option to test the microphone audio level is finally addressed. The original bug report noted PipeWire's loopback module to help make it easier to test the microphone audio level or whatever is connected to the audio line-in. This week Nate Graham added a microphone test capability to the audio settings KCM and widget. Users can record a brief audio sample and play it back to hear the audio level, beginning with Plasma 6.7.
- Plasma 6.7 will also support the notifications portal for dealing with notifications sent by Flatpak and other portal-using sandboxed apps.
- Plasma 6.7's screen chooser UI now shows nicer visualizations for screens.
- Screen recordings made using Spectacle and other KPipeWire-using software will now use the correct render device with multi-GPU systems.
- KWin began landing the first bits of Vulkan support.
- System Monitor in Plasma 6.7 will better detect multiple GPUs.
- Plasma 6.6.4 is improving the bouncy app launch feedback animation so that it looks better for desktops using fractional scaling.
- Plasma 6.6.4 is seeing several more crash fixes.
More details on this week's Plasma changes via This Week in Plasma.
This Week in Plasma is out with its latest issue to summarize the key developments in the Plasma world over the past week. This week some of the most interesting highlights include:
- A five year old bug report / feature request for having a GUI option to test the microphone audio level is finally addressed. The original bug report noted PipeWire's loopback module to help make it easier to test the microphone audio level or whatever is connected to the audio line-in. This week Nate Graham added a microphone test capability to the audio settings KCM and widget. Users can record a brief audio sample and play it back to hear the audio level, beginning with Plasma 6.7.
👁 KWin microphone record addition
- Plasma 6.7 will also support the notifications portal for dealing with notifications sent by Flatpak and other portal-using sandboxed apps.
- Plasma 6.7's screen chooser UI now shows nicer visualizations for screens.
- Screen recordings made using Spectacle and other KPipeWire-using software will now use the correct render device with multi-GPU systems.
- KWin began landing the first bits of Vulkan support.
- System Monitor in Plasma 6.7 will better detect multiple GPUs.
- Plasma 6.6.4 is improving the bouncy app launch feedback animation so that it looks better for desktops using fractional scaling.
- Plasma 6.6.4 is seeing several more crash fixes.
More details on this week's Plasma changes via This Week in Plasma.