This Week in Plasma: Post-6.7 Bug-fixing

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!

This week members of the core Plasma team spent almost all of their time in bug-fixing mode! As usual, people unleashed their real-world setups on the new Plasma release and found some issues we missed during the development process, and that nobody reported during the two beta releases. So we made it a priority to fix those issues!

Plasma 6.7.1 was released earlier this week with the first round of fixes, and 6.7.2 is scheduled for early next week with more.

A few new features and UI improvements started landing, too.

Check it out here:

Notable new features

Plasma 6.8

You can now set up wallpaper slideshows that don’t change automatically. Instead you can manually switch the wallpaper via the item in the desktop context menu or its global keyboard shortcut. (Fushan Wen, KDE Bugzilla #518669)

Added an Esperanto keyboard layout to Plasma’s virtual keyboard. (Daniel O’Neill, plasma-keyboard MR #148)

Notable UI improvements

Plasma 6.7.2

Improved the alignment of the text in System Monitor’s Processes page while using the tree view. (Arjen Hiemstra, KDE Bugzilla #442095)

Plasma 6.8

Reduced the number of visual frames in the Menu Editor app. (Levi Leal, kmenuedit MR #59)

Notable bug fixes

Plasma 6.6.6

Fixed an issue that could make KWin crash when some apps opened dialogs and popups in non-standard ways. (Vlad Zahorodnii, kwin MR #9444)

Fixed a regression introduced by Qt 6.11 that made the word “Undefined” appear next to Places entries in the Kickoff Application Launcher widget. (Christoph Wolk, KDE Bugzilla #521799)

Fixed a visual glitch affecting users of Deskflow that could make a clone of the pointer inappropriately remain visible on the client machine. (David Redondo, KDE Bugzilla #521486)

Plasma 6.7.1

Fixed a somewhat common case where KWin could crash on the lock screen when using an NVIDIA GPU. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #520842)

Fixed a recent regression that made KWin crash when using a DisplayLink monitor. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #520361)

Fixed an issue that could make screens plugged into a laptop with both an NVIDIA and an AMD GPU freeze. (Xaver Hugl and SungHwan Jung, KDE Bugzilla #521727)

Fixed a recent regression that broke certain shader-based KWin effects, including the popular “Burn My Windows” effects. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #521774)

Fixed a recent regression that broke color-related KWin effects like color blindness correction and screen color inversion. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #521737)

Plasma 6.7.2

Fixed the currently most common KWin crash, related to variable refresh rates with multi-monitor setups. (Vlad Zahorodnii, KDE Bugzilla #521909)

Fixed a case where Info Center could crash when trying to display information about certain NVIDIA GPUs. (Harald Sitter, KDE Bugzilla #521295)

Fixed a recent regression that broke the RDP server when run using systemd. Sorry about that! (David Edmundson, KDE Bugzilla #521776)

Fixed a recent regression that could sometimes make Chromium-based apps freeze if another window was forced into “Keep Above Others” mode. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #521687)

Plasma 6.8

Fixed a case where Plasma could crash after you ejected an audio CD from Dolphin or Audex. (Kai Uwe Broulik, KDE Bugzilla #522051)

Flatpak 1.18.1

Fixed an issue that made the a background service for Flatpak crash if you use the KDE desktop portal dialog to allow an app to update itself while the app is still running. (Sebastian Wick, flatpak issue #6686)

GTK 4.23.2

Made the process of selecting text to later paste it by middle-clicking more reliable in GTK 4 apps. (Vlad Zahorodnii, gtk MR #10006)

Notable in performance & technical

Plasma 6.7.2

Improved full-screen video playback performance in Chromium-based apps. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #521960)

Plasma 6.8

Turned on triple buffering by default for NVIDIA GPUs, because the bugs blocking this from working properly in the past have since been fixed. (Xaver Hugl, kwin MR #9472)

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