KDE Prepares For Plasma 6.4 Debut With Better VRR Experience
KDE developers are on the final stretch of fixes and polishing ahead of the Plasma 6.4 release next Thursday. Plus there has been plenty of early work building toward Plasma 6.5.
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly recap of all the interesting Plasma desktop changes for the week. Some of the interesting KDE Plasma activity this week included:
- Plasma 6.4 has improved the cursor smoothness and reduced flickering around Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) functionality. The change to the KWin compositor is for taking the minimum VRR refresh rate into account for cursor updates to help make the cursor smoother and help with VRR flickering if the minimum refresh rate is higher than 30Hz.
- Plasma 6.4's Display & Monitor area of System Settings will no longer let you drag screens on top of other screens, since it's not supported and just triggers bugs throughout Plasma if placing screens on other screens.
- Plasma 6.4 will also no longer cause the logout screen to appear if pressing the computer's power button to wake a sleeping computer.
- Many bug fixes for Plasma 6.4, including at least four crash fixes.
- Plasma 6.5 with its System Settings Fonts page now enforces a minimum font size of 4 pt and a warning for font sizes between 5 and 6 pt.
More details on all of the Plasma changes this week via Nate Graham's KDE blog.
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly recap of all the interesting Plasma desktop changes for the week. Some of the interesting KDE Plasma activity this week included:
- Plasma 6.4 has improved the cursor smoothness and reduced flickering around Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) functionality. The change to the KWin compositor is for taking the minimum VRR refresh rate into account for cursor updates to help make the cursor smoother and help with VRR flickering if the minimum refresh rate is higher than 30Hz.
- Plasma 6.4's Display & Monitor area of System Settings will no longer let you drag screens on top of other screens, since it's not supported and just triggers bugs throughout Plasma if placing screens on other screens.
- Plasma 6.4 will also no longer cause the logout screen to appear if pressing the computer's power button to wake a sleeping computer.
- Many bug fixes for Plasma 6.4, including at least four crash fixes.
- Plasma 6.5 with its System Settings Fonts page now enforces a minimum font size of 4 pt and a warning for font sizes between 5 and 6 pt.
More details on all of the Plasma changes this week via Nate Graham's KDE blog.