This Week in Plasma 

Happy holidays to all in the KDE universe who celebrate them! As 2025 draws to a close, I thought it would be a good time to take stock. “This Week in Plasma” began 8 years ago as a development report for KDE’s Usability & Productivity goal, which had just been democratically selected by the community in the very first round of the new KDE Goals process. Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week many KDE contributors wound down their activities in preparation for some well-deserved rest. But that didn’t stop the merging of some impactful work anyway! Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the team made significant progress on KWin’s Wayland screen support. Specifically, better mirroring and custom modes — both items on the “Known Significant Issues” page — have been implemented for Plasma 6.6! The remaining items on that page are areas of active focus, too, as we race towards the Wayland finish line. Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week saw a bunch of user interface improvements and bug fixing, especially for the drawing tablets, printers, and monitors. Hardware is quirky! Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week saw quite a lot of feature work and user interface polish for Plasma 6.6! Have a look: Read More

Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included. Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week there were many user interface and performance improvements — some quite consequential. So let’s get right into it! Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week Spectacle gained OCR (optical character recognition) functionality, allowing you to turn words in images into selectable text! Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week something that I know a lot of people have been wanting for a long time was implemented: the ability to limit virtual desktops to only the primary screen! Thanks very much to Kristen McWilliam for this long-awaited feature, which arrives in Plasma 6.6. Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Read More