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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-25T00:00:01.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "KDE Bugzilla #420951",
    "KDE Bugzilla #499188",
    "kwin MR #8969",
    "improve dragging-and-dropping things to the desktop",
    "KDE Bugzilla #500259",
    "discover MR #1297",
    "KDE Bugzilla #431719",
    "KDE Bugzilla #509760",
    "plasma-desktop MR #3665",
    "KDE Bugzilla #518749",
    "KDE Bugzilla #518802",
    "plasma-desktop MR #3674",
    "plasma-workspace MR #6522",
    "kirigami MR #2070",
    "KDE Bugzilla #503976",
    "KDE Bugzilla #519302",
    "plasma-workspace MR #6520",
    "KDE Bugzilla #519143",
    "KDE Bugzilla #519333",
    "KDE Bugzilla #519217",
    "KDE Bugzilla #509065",
    "KDE Bugzilla #484155",
    "KDE Bugzilla #516413",
    "kwin MR #9127",
    "ksvg MR #103",
    "KDE Bugzilla #518868",
    "kwin MR #8699",
    "kwin MR #9120",
    "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 includes an interesting blend of improvements. Lots of visual stuff, so get ready for a ton of screenshots and screen recordings!\n\n## Notable new features\n\n### Plasma 6.7\n\nThe Kicker Application Menu widget can now be configured to show a “Recent Locations” item. (Christoph Wolk, KDE Bugzilla #420951)\n\nNetwork connections can now be duplicated. (Kartikeya Tyagi, KDE Bugzilla #499188)\n\nThere’s now a new “has parent window” window rule you can use to target child dialog windows specifically. (Kai Uwe Broulik, kwin MR #8969)\n\n## Notable UI improvements\n\n### Plasma 6.6.5\n\nDragging a search result for a System Settings page to the desktop now creates a launcher to that page as you would expect. This completes a mini-project to improve dragging-and-dropping things to the desktop that we started a while back. (Antti Savolainen, KDE Bugzilla #500259)\n\n### Plasma 6.7\n\nDiscover now has fancier application page headers with more obvious install buttons! (Oliver Beard, discover MR #1297)\n\nDiscover no longer disables the “More Information” button on list items for in-progress updates. (Tobias Fella, KDE Bugzilla #431719)\n\nDiscover now does a better job of handling the rare case where an automatic update to a Flatpak app introduces a compatibility issue you can’t easily recover from. Now it will warn you about this once instead of continuously. (Tobias Fella, KDE Bugzilla #509760)\n\nYou can now drag favorite apps out of their areas in Kicker and Dashboard to un-favorite them. Kickoff is coming soon, too! (Christoph Wolk, plasma-desktop MR #3665 and KDE Bugzilla #518749)\n\nWhen your laptop is plugged in at maximum charge, doing something that changes the power profile to a non-default one now shows only the power profile icon in the System Tray, and omits the fully-charged battery icon because that part is obvious. (Nate Graham, KDE Bugzilla #518802)\n\nImproved some awkwardly-worded labels in System Settings and Plasma. (Philipp Kiemle, plasma-desktop MR #3674 and plasma-workspace MR #6522)\n\n### Frameworks 6.26\n\nReduced the amount of blurriness seen in icons throughout QtQuick-based apps using the `Kirigami.Icon` component when using a low fractional scale factor like 150% or less. (Volodymyr Zolotopupov, kirigami MR #2070)\n\nBefore:  After:\n\nAdded a search provider for startpage.com, so you can search there from KRunner. (Antti Savolainen, KDE Bugzilla #503976)\n\n## Notable bug fixes\n\n### Plasma 6.6.5\n\nFixed a case where the Plasma Login Manager could crash when connecting and disconnecting multiple monitors while the login screen is visible. (David Edmundson, KDE Bugzilla #519302)\n\nFixed some cases where Plasma could crash at login. (David Edmundson, plasma-workspace MR #6520)\n\nFixed multiple accessibility issues: key repeat not working in the Orca screen reader, and various UI elements not being read properly. (Nicolas Fella, KDE Bugzilla #519143, KDE Bugzilla #519333, and KDE Bugzilla #519217)\n\nFixed a tricky issue in Spectacle that could make large images fail to automatically copy to the clipboard right after the app exits. (David Edmundson, KDE Bugzilla #509065)\n\nFixed another cause of the issue whereby de-focused full-screen windows could sometimes inappropriately appear at the top of the window stack. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #484155)\n\nFixed a layout glitch on System Settings’ Colors page that could make UI elements in the color previews overflow when using some non-default fonts and font sizes. (Akseli Lahtinen, KDE Bugzilla #516413)\n\nChanging the brightness or any screen settings no longer terminates Spectacle’s sectangular region recordings. (Xaver Hugl, kwin MR #9127)\n\n### Frameworks 6.26\n\nFixed some visual glitches around radio buttons in the Audio Volume widget. (David Edmundson, ksvg MR #103)\n\n## Notable in performance & technical\n\n### Plasma 6.6.5\n\nFixed an issue that made System Settings’ Touchscreen page appear while the “highlight changed settings” feature is enabled even if you don’t have a touchscreen. (Jin Liu, KDE Bugzilla #518868)\n\n### Plasma 6.7\n\nTurned on the “overlay planes” feature for Intel GPUs, which should improve performance and save some energy when using cooperative games and apps. (Xaver Hugl, kwin MR #8699)\n\nImproved power efficiency for full-screen windows and effects that don’t gain any benefit from using the “direct scan-out” feature; now they’ll only use it if it will save power. (Xaver Hugl, kwin MR #9120)\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 bug fix mentioned here\n\nPush a commit to the relevant merge request on invent.kde.org.",
  "title": "This Week in Plasma: fanciness in Discover and more power efficiency"
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