This Week in Plasma: rounded bottom corners
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.
This week we continues the feature work for Plasma 6.5, landing a major visual change that has been years in the wanting: rounded bottom corners for windows! Check it out below, along with other goodies:
Notable New Features
Plasma 6.5.0
Breeze-decorated windows now have their bottom corners rounded by KWin automatically! This feature is on by default, but can be turned off if you preferred the older style. (Vlad Zahorodnii, link 1, link 2, and link 3)
Notable UI Improvements
Plasma 6.5.0
The sidebars in Discover and System Monitor are now resizable. And they also remember the size you choose in the state config file, not the settings config file. (Marco Martin, link 1, link 2 and link 3)
The Disks & Devices widget now lets you mount a disk without checking for errors, or manually check for errors without mounting. These can be useful for huge disks full of stuff where you know everything is fine, which otherwise take a while to check for updates while mounting. (Bohdan Onofriichuk, link)
Started working on a project to improve the ordering of search results in KRunner. Changes made so far include not increasing the priority for KDE apps and items marked as favorites, both of which tended to make the results feel more random. More changes will be coming soon; this is not the end! (Harald Sitter, link 1 and link 2)
Plasma‘s Weather Report widget now fetches weather data immediately upon waking from sleep when the computer was sleeping for more than 30 minutes. (Bohdan Onofriichuk, link)
When you start creating a user on System Settings’ Users page, there‘s now a “Cancel” button you can click on to easily stop the process and go back. (Rémi Piau, link)
Gear 25.08.0
In Plasma‘s Disks & Devices widget, optical discs no longer display the option to open them in Partition Manager, because this makes no sense. (Joshua Goins, link)
Frameworks 6.17
The NavigationTabButton component — which is used on various System Settings pages as well as a bunch of QtQuick-based apps — now used a more obvious style to communicate keyboard focus, improving accessibility. (Devin Lin, link)
Notable Bug Fixes
Plasma 6.4.4
Fixed a bug that caused the Volume Controls page (accessed from System Settings‘ Sound page) to never enter narrow mode when displayed with longer text than would normally fit on the page, which can happen when using various languages other than English. (Méven Car, link)
Plasma 6.5.0
With HDR mode turned on, the cursor on the lock screen is now dimmed in the expected way when the rest of the screens dims. (Xaver Hugl, link)
Frameworks 6.17
Worked around some Qt issues in Kirigami that could cause apps to crash when using software rendering. (Vlad Zahorodnii, link)
The very common Kirigami.FormLayout component used throughout System Settings and other KDE apps no longer flickers a tiny bit the first time it‘s shown on a page. (Niccolò Venerandi, link)
Other bug information of note:
- 4 very high priority Plasma bugs (same as last week). Current list of bugs
- 32 15-minute Plasma bugs (up from 31 last week). Current list of bugs
Notable in Performance & Technical
Plasma 6.5.0
Added some more autotests to verify Plasma‘s ability to load various parts of itself. (Nicolas Fella, link 1, link 2)
Made KWin less trusting of colorimetry coming from screens‘ EDID data, because it‘s wrong enough of the time that it doesn‘t make sense to use by default. (Xaver Hugl, link)
Data for the size of the file dialog window is now stored in the state config file, not the settings config file. (Nicolas Fella, link)
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