KDE Preps More Wayland Improvements, Addresses Another Possible KWin Crash
KDE developers continue to be very busy working toward the Plasma 6.4 desktop release and making other enhancements throughout this open-source desktop.
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual Saturday update to outline all of the interesting Plasma desktop changes for the week. Some of the most interesting KDE Plasma changes this week include:
- The KDE System Monitor Applications page can now group background services into its own area for segregating them from the rest of the apps.
- The KDE System Settings Drawing Tablet page now shows a visualization of the stylus and buttons for easier configuration. The Drawing Tablet area can now also more easily recover when mis-calibrating a tablet.
- The Portal-based open/save dialogs are now modal with their parent windows, similar to the non-portal versions.
- WIth KDE Frameworks 6.14, the widely-used Kirigami.FormLayout component has a more visually pleasing style in situations of not enough horizontal space for displaying everything.
- Plasma 6.3.5 will fix a KWin crash caused by GPU resets.
- With Plasma 6.4 under Wayland, screen mirroring is now aware of differences in mirrored screens' aspect ratios.
- KDE On Wayland will no longer see the Task Switcher preview visualizations opening in the wrong location on the screen.
- Plasma 6.4 adds support for the single-pixel buffer Wayland protocol as an efficiency improvement.
More details on the Plasma activities for the week via Nate's blog.
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual Saturday update to outline all of the interesting Plasma desktop changes for the week. Some of the most interesting KDE Plasma changes this week include:
- The KDE System Monitor Applications page can now group background services into its own area for segregating them from the rest of the apps.
- The KDE System Settings Drawing Tablet page now shows a visualization of the stylus and buttons for easier configuration. The Drawing Tablet area can now also more easily recover when mis-calibrating a tablet.
- The Portal-based open/save dialogs are now modal with their parent windows, similar to the non-portal versions.
- WIth KDE Frameworks 6.14, the widely-used Kirigami.FormLayout component has a more visually pleasing style in situations of not enough horizontal space for displaying everything.
- Plasma 6.3.5 will fix a KWin crash caused by GPU resets.
- With Plasma 6.4 under Wayland, screen mirroring is now aware of differences in mirrored screens' aspect ratios.
- KDE On Wayland will no longer see the Task Switcher preview visualizations opening in the wrong location on the screen.
- Plasma 6.4 adds support for the single-pixel buffer Wayland protocol as an efficiency improvement.
More details on the Plasma activities for the week via Nate's blog.