This Week in Plasma: Fixing all the things
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week the team continued polishing Plasma 6.7 for its release later in the month. As such, this week saw mostly bug fixing.
Notable UI improvements
Plasma 6.7
Hovering over a partially-visible item in the Kickoff Application Launcher widget no longer unexpectedly automatically scrolls the view to show the entire item. (Christoph Wolk, KDE Bugzilla #426015)
Spectacle’s feature to automatically copy the screenshot to the clipboard is now temporarily turned off while extracting text via OCR, so that the extracted text makes it onto the clipboard instead. (Tobias Fella, KDE Bugzilla #520758)
When launching an app from a terminal window, the animated launch feedback effect now ends after the app launches, as expected. (Nicolas Fella, Vlad Zahorodnii, and Akseli Lahtinen, KDE Bugzilla #459986)
Plasma 6.8
Notifications about connected devices having low battery power are now shown in full-screen apps so you won’t miss them, just like notifications for the internal battery being low. (Jan Bidler, plasma-workspace MR #6623)
The Peek at Desktop and Window Aperture effects now respect the system-wide animation speed setting. (Sudip Datta, KDE Bugzilla #490531)
Frameworks 6.27
KRunner now assumes you mean US pints rather than Imperial pints when you convert to or from them, since pints are still official in the USA. (Nate Graham, kunitconversion MR #86)
After
BeforeDisk sizes displayed in various places now fully respect your preference regarding storage units. (Tobias Fella, KDE Bugzilla #518493)
Notable bug fixes
Plasma 6.6.6
Fixed a case where Plasma could crash while refreshing the list of nearby wireless networks. (David Edmundson, KDE Bugzilla #519739)
Fixed an issue that reset custom tiling layouts on portrait-rotated monitors after restarting the system. (Hynek Schlindenbuch, KDE Bugzilla #514355)
Searching for an app in the Kicker Application Menu widget and launching one that isn’t the first item in the search results list no longer launches it twice. (Christoph Wolk, KDE Bugzilla #521001)
Plasma 6.7
Fixed a regression in VNC-based screen sharing that prevented the Ctrl and Alt modifier from being sent to the machine being controlled. (David Edmundson, KDE Bugzilla #519690)
Fixed an issue that could make Plasma freeze if you quickly switch months in the Digital Clock widget by dragging on the calendar view multiple times in quick succession. (Sander Wolswijk, KDE Bugzilla #511028)
Made the Task Manager Widget’s “Move to Desktop” feature work on grouped tasks. (Hynek Schlindenbuch, KDE Bugzilla #520777)
Fixed two issues with the Grouping widget: not re-appearing instantly after undoing deleting it, and a phantom header remaining visible after removing the last app from it. (Tobias Fella, KDE Bugzilla #517044 and KDE Bugzilla #517043)
Fixed a variety of issues with icons or list items not properly reversing themselves when using a right-to-left language like Arabic or Hebrew. (Tobias Fella and Akseli Lahtinen, KDE Bugzilla #518932, KDE Bugzilla #518909, KDE Bugzilla #518935, KDE Bugzilla #518835, and KDE Bugzilla #518837)
Made System Settings raise and focus its window as expected when launched using a higher-than-default level of focus stealing prevention. (Kai Uwe Broulik, systemsettings MR #408)
Frameworks 6.27
Switching between light and dark Global Themes no longer sometimes results in various UI elements in Plasma only changing their colors halfway. (Marco Martin, KDE Bugzilla #503671)
Fixed an issue saving and retrieving config data in cases where a setting has been given a system-wide default value by the OS vendor that differs from KDE’s own default value. (Nicolas Fella, KDE Bugzilla #509416)
Fixed various related issues with network shares auto-mounted using systemd, including the trash not working properly, and appearing strangely in GUI apps. (Oliver Schramm, KDE Bugzilla #518012)
Fixed an issue that made it impossible to rename files on the desktop via the “Suggest new name” feature in the overwrite dialog. (Akseli Lahtinen, KDE Bugzilla #509461)
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