KDE Plasma 6.7's KWin Lands Support For 3D LUTs To Help With Modern GPUs
In addition to releasing Plasma 6.6.3 this week, KDE developers remain quite busy working on new features for the Plasma 6.7 desktop while also already queuing some changes for the next Plasma 6.6.4 point release.
This Week In Plasma is out with its latest issue to highlight recent developments to the Plasma desktop. Some of this week's fixes and new features include:
- Plasma 6.7 will display timezone offsets in the digital clock widget for where having additional timezones set, it will now show how far forward or back that timezone is compared to your default.
- Plasma 6.7 will allow reversing the order of items in the System Tray widget.
- Screen un-dimming is now faster than dimming.
- The Global Menu widget's menu highlights are now rounded consistently with the highlights for other menus.
- KDE Frameworks 6.25 will fix a regression that broke icons for some apps like OBS and Ungoogled Chromium due to an underlying defect in Qt's SVG renderer.
- Plasma 6.6.4 will reduce CPU and GPU load for full-screen windows in direct scan-out mode for screens without the pointer on them.
- Plasma 6.7 added support for 3D LUTs in KWin to help reduce resource usage on GPUs that support color pipeline in hardware. More details on that here.
- Plasma 6.7 will also stop creating unnecessary OpenGL contexts for apps that don't even use OpenGL.
- The Qt 6.10.3 toolkit is fixing an issue that broke HDR support with Vulkan rendering on certain hardware.
More details on these changes via This Week In Plasma.
This Week In Plasma is out with its latest issue to highlight recent developments to the Plasma desktop. Some of this week's fixes and new features include:
- Plasma 6.7 will display timezone offsets in the digital clock widget for where having additional timezones set, it will now show how far forward or back that timezone is compared to your default.
- Plasma 6.7 will allow reversing the order of items in the System Tray widget.
- Screen un-dimming is now faster than dimming.
- The Global Menu widget's menu highlights are now rounded consistently with the highlights for other menus.
- KDE Frameworks 6.25 will fix a regression that broke icons for some apps like OBS and Ungoogled Chromium due to an underlying defect in Qt's SVG renderer.
- Plasma 6.6.4 will reduce CPU and GPU load for full-screen windows in direct scan-out mode for screens without the pointer on them.
- Plasma 6.7 added support for 3D LUTs in KWin to help reduce resource usage on GPUs that support color pipeline in hardware. More details on that here.
- Plasma 6.7 will also stop creating unnecessary OpenGL contexts for apps that don't even use OpenGL.
- The Qt 6.10.3 toolkit is fixing an issue that broke HDR support with Vulkan rendering on certain hardware.
More details on these changes via This Week In Plasma.