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    "Plasma 6.6",
    "KDE Bugzilla #453109",
    "kwin MR #8829",
    "KDE Bugzilla #505663",
    "print-manager MR #280",
    "kwin MR #8828",
    "spectacle MR #479",
    "KDE Bugzilla #515940",
    "kwin MR #8830",
    "After",
    "Before",
    "plasma-nm MR #526",
    "KDE Bugzilla #453854",
    "kwin MR #8742",
    "kdeplasma-addons MR #1010",
    "plasma-workspace MR #6246",
    "plasma-desktop MR #3541",
    "kwin MR #8818",
    "plasma-workspace MR #6251",
    "KDE Bugzilla #506916",
    "KDE Bugzilla #515179",
    "KDE Bugzilla #515150",
    "KDE Bugzilla #516242",
    "KDE Bugzilla #516185",
    "kwin MR #8817",
    "KDE Bugzilla #516018",
    "KDE Bugzilla #516196",
    "KDE Bugzilla #516135",
    "KDE Bugzilla #516303",
    "plasma-workspace MR #6305",
    "krdp MR #144",
    "plasma-login-manager MR #109",
    "KDE Bugzilla #515987",
    "plasma-workspace MR #6145",
    "KDE Bugzilla #504441",
    "KDE Bugzilla #501166",
    "kdeplasma-addons MR #1008",
    "KDE Bugzilla #516053",
    "KDE Bugzilla #509896",
    "KDE Bugzilla #515194",
    "KDE Bugzilla #515465",
    "KDE Bugzilla #516240",
    "the Matrix room",
    "join the team",
    "getting involved",
    "making a donation",
    "the relevant merge request on invent.kde.org"
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  "textContent": "Welcome to a new issue of _This Week in Plasma!_\n\nThis week we released Plasma 6.6! So far it’s getting great reviews, even on Phoronix. 😁\n\nAs usual, this week the major focus was on triaging bug reports from people upgrading to the new release, and then fixing them. There were a couple of minor regressions as a result of the extensive work done to modernize Plasma widgets’ UI and code for Plasma 6.6, and we’ve already got almost all of them fixed.\n\nIn addition to that, feature work and UI improvements roared into focus for Plasma 6.7! Lots of neat stuff this week. Check it all out:\n\n## Notable new features\n\n### Plasma 6.7.0\n\nWhile in the _Overview_ effect, you can now switch between virtual desktops by scrolling or pressing the `Page Up`/`Page Down` keys! (Kai Uwe Broulik, KDE Bugzilla #453109 and kwin MR #8829)\n\nOn Wayland, you can optionally synchronize the stylus pointer with the mouse/touchpad pointer if this fits your stylus usage better. (Joshua Goins, KDE Bugzilla #505663)\n\nThe old print queue dialog has been replaced with a full-featured print queue viewer app, allowing you to visualize multiple queues of multiple printers connected locally or over the network! It still offers a good and normal experience for the common case of having one printer, but now also includes loads of enterprisey features relevant to environments with many printers. (Mike Noe, print-manager MR #280)\n\nYou can now exclude windows from screen recording using permanent window rules! (Kai Uwe Broulik, kwin MR #8828)\n\nAdded a new `--release-capture` command-line option to _Spectacle_ that allows invoking it with its “accept screenshot on click-and-release” setting using automation tools. (Arimil, spectacle MR #479)\n\n## Notable UI improvements\n\n### Plasma 6.6.1\n\nThe _Custom Tiling_ feature accessed with `Meta`+`T` no longer inappropriately respects key repeat, and therefore no longer becomes practically impossible to open with a very high key repeat rate. (Ritchie Frodomar, KDE Bugzilla #515940)\n\nClose buttons on the default “Thumbnails” `Alt`+`Tab` task switcher are now more legible on top of the window thumbnails. (Nate Graham, kwin MR #8830)\n\nAfter\n\nBefore\n\nThe _Networks_ widget now shows a more appropriate icon in the panel or _System Tray_ when you disable Wi-Fi. (Nate Graham, plasma-nm MR #526)\n\nAfter\n\nBefore\n\n### Plasma 6.7.0\n\nThe _System Monitor_ app and widgets now respect your chosen “binary unit” choice. This means for example if you’ve asked for file sizes to be expressed as “GB” (gigabyte, or one billion bytes) rather than “GiB” (gibibyte, or 2^30 bytes), the system monitoring tools now respect that. (David Redondo, KDE Bugzilla #453854)\n\nIf the auto-generated scale factor for a screen is very close to 100%, 200%, or 300%, it now gets rounded to that value, prioritizing performance and visual fidelity. (Kai Uwe Broulik, kwin MR #8742)\n\nThe _Color Picker_ widget now displays more sensible tooltip and placeholder text when it hasn’t been used yet. (Joshua Goins, kdeplasma-addons MR #1010)\n\nAfter\n\nBefore\n\nVarious parts of Plasma now consistently use the term “UEFI Firmware Settings” to refer to UEFI-based setup tools. (Kai Uwe Broulik, plasma-workspace MR #6246 and plasma-desktop MR #3541)\n\nThe “Terminate this frozen window” dialog now shows a little spinner as it tries to terminate the window, so you don’t think it’s gotten stuck. (Kai Uwe Broulik, kwin MR #8818)\n\nThe _Widget Explorer_ sidebar now appears on the screen with the pointer on it, rather than always appearing on the left-most screen. (Fushan Wen, plasma-workspace MR #6251)\n\n## Notable bug fixes\n\n### Plasma 6.6.1\n\nFixed a case where KWin could crash during intensive input method usage. (Vlad Zahorodnii, KDE Bugzilla #506916)\n\nFixed a case where KWin could crash when waking up the system while using the _Input Leap_ or _Deskflow_ input-sharing apps. (David Redondo, KDE Bugzilla #515179)\n\nFixed a case where _Discover_ could crash while trying to install updates. (Harald Sitter, KDE Bugzilla #515150)\n\nFixed a regression that broke drag-and-drop onto pinned _Task Manager_ widget icons. (Kai Uwe Broulik, KDE Bugzilla #516242)\n\nFixed a regression that made certain popups from third-party software appear in the wrong place on the screen. (Vlad Zahorodnii, KDE Bugzilla #516185)\n\nFixed a minor visual regression in the _Zoom_ effect on rotated screens. (Vlad Zahorodnii, kwin MR #8817)\n\nFixed a layout regression that made the _Task Manager_ widget’s tooltip close buttons get slightly cut off for multi-window apps while window thumbnails were manually disabled. (Christoph Wolk, KDE Bugzilla #516018)\n\nFixed a layout regression that slightly misaligned the search bar in the _Kicker Application Menu_ widget. (Christoph Wolk, KDE Bugzilla #516196)\n\nFixed a layout regression that made some _System Tray_ popups always show an unnecessary hamburger menu. (Arjen Hiemstra, KDE Bugzilla #516135)\n\nFixed a regression that made some GTK apps not notice system-wide changes to the color scheme and enter their dark mode. (Nicolas Fella, KDE Bugzilla #516303)\n\nFixed a button added to Plasma 6.6 not having translated text. (Albers Astals Cid, plasma-workspace MR #6305)\n\nFixed server-to-client clipboard syncing in Plasma’s remote desktop implementation. (realies, krdp MR #144)\n\nThe new _Plasma Login Manager_ introduced in Plasma 6.6 no longer shows accounts on the system that a human can’t actually log into. (Matthew Snow, plasma-login-manager MR #109)\n\nFixed a layout issue that made a label in the panel configuration dialog disappear when using certain Plasma styles. (Filip Fila, KDE Bugzilla #515987)\n\nFixed a layout issue that made the notification dialog too tall for very short text-only notification messages. (Kai Uwe Broulik, plasma-workspace MR #6145)\n\nFixed an issue that set the screen brightness to too low a level on login in certain circumstances. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #504441)\n\nFixed a layout issue that made the song or artist names in the _Media Player_ widget get cut off too early when the widget was placed in a panel in between two spacers. (Greeniac Green, KDE Bugzilla #501166)\n\nImproved the _Weather Report_ widget’s reliability with forecasts from the Environment Canada provider. (Eric Soltys, kdeplasma-addons MR #1008)\n\nMade the progress indicator built into icons in the _Task Manager_ widget move in the appropriate direction when using the system with a right-to-left language like Arabic or Hebrew. (Oliver Beard, KDE Bugzilla #516053)\n\nCustom icons embedded in third-party widgets that appear in the _Widget Explorer_ sidebar now also appear in those widgets’ “About this widget” pages. (Mark Capella, KDE Bugzilla #509896)\n\n### Plasma 6.7.0\n\nEliminated a source of visual glitchiness with certain fade transitions while using an ICC profile. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #515194)\n\n### Frameworks 6.24\n\nFixed a case where KDE’s desktop portal could crash when copying certain data over a remote desktop connection. (David Edmundson, KDE Bugzilla #515465)\n\n## Notable in performance & technical\n\n### Plasma 6.6.1\n\nImproved animation performance throughout the system by leaning more heavily on the Wayland _Presentation Time_ protocol. (Vlad Zahorodnii, KDE Bugzilla #516240)\n\n## How you can help\n\nKDE has become important in the world, and your time and contributions have helped us get there. As we grow, we need your support to keep KDE sustainable.\n\nWould you like to help put together this weekly report? Introduce yourself in the Matrix room and join the team!\n\nBeyond that, you can help KDE by directly getting involved in any other projects. Donating time is actually more impactful than donating money. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE — you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to be a programmer, either; many other opportunities exist.\n\nYou can also help out by making a donation! This helps cover operational costs, salaries, travel expenses for contributors, and in general just keeps KDE bringing Free Software to the world.\n\n## To get a new Plasma feature or a bugfix mentioned here\n\nPush a commit to the relevant merge request on invent.kde.org.",
  "title": "This Week in Plasma: 6.6 is Here!"
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