Below is a brief look at recent changes in the KDE projects I work on and follow!
This week something big got merged: support for Explicit Sync on Wayland! What does this do? In a nutshell it allows apps to tell the compositor when to display frames on the screen, reducing latency and graphical glitches. The effect should be particularly noticeable with NVIDIA GPUs, which only support this rendering style, and not … Continue reading This week in KDE: Explicit Sync
This week I’d like to highlight a very cool development: the automatic crash reporting facility in the Plasma 6 version of our venerable DrKonqi crash report wizard. Automatic reporting is opt-in, but so far lots of people are opting in, and we’re using this data to get a much better picture of the crashes that … Continue reading This week in KDE: looking forward towards Plasma 6.1
It’s great to see lots of people running the Plasma 6 Alpha release, which has resulted in a spike of bug reports, as we had hoped and expected. So keep at it! Focus is already shifting to bug fixing now that most planned features are merged, with only a few to go. So far I’ve … Continue reading This week in KDE: Panel Intellihide and Wayland Presentation Time
This was a big week for backend work, especially on the subject of power management and energy efficiency! Plasma 6 General info – Open issues: 81 New Features Welcome Center’s first page can now be customized by distros–or for that matter, by users (me: Nate Graham, link) User Interface Improvements The KDE desktop portal implementation … Continue reading This week in KDE: power management galore
A month has passed since the last Plasma 6 status update, so it’s time for another one! First, what you’ve all been waiting for: a release date! We’ve decided that Plasma 6 will be released in early February of 2024. We don’t have a specific day targeted yet, but it’ll be in that timeframe. I’m … Continue reading September Plasma 6 update
About 6 weeks ago, I posted a tentative roadmap for Plasma 6. I wanted to give everyone an update on how things have gone since then! So where are we? I previously explained that we were somewhere in between “clean up the code” and “Implement planned features and changes”–stages 3 and 4. I predicted that … Continue reading August Plasma 6 progress update
This week probably the biggest news is that in Plasma 6, the Night Color feature will work as expected on Wayland when you’re using an NVIDIA GPU! Because NVIDIA’s drivers don’t support the necessary Gamma LUT features to make it work in an optimal way as on Intel and AMD GPUs, we had to use … Continue reading This week in KDE: Night color on Wayland with NVIDIA
This week a lot of people made a lot of fixes and improvements to a lot of small-to-medium yet longstanding issues. I challenge any reader to read through the whole post and not find any instances of things that had been annoying them being fixed this week! New Features Skanpage now lets you customize its … Continue reading This week in KDE: it’s the little things that count
New Features With the new XwaylandVideoBridge utility, you can now screencast native Wayland windows from Xwayland apps like Discord (Aleix Pol Gonzalez and David Edmundson, Link) Dolphin now has an option to not change the information and preview shown in the Information Panel when hovering over files, and to instead only do so when deliberately … Continue reading This week in KDE: Distro upgrades for Fedora KDE in Discover
Something funny happens when you take something that was super broken and you make it work a lot better: people start to use it more! And then they submit bug reports for all their unusual use cases that you failed to anticipate or that hadn’t been getting exercised in a long time. So in the … Continue reading This week in KDE: even better multi-monitor
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