KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap of all the interesting KDE changes and fixes to be merged for the week. This was a particularly action-packed week as the developers work toward the KDE Plasma 6.0 finish line coming up in early February and prior to that the development releases.
Among the KDE Plasma 6 development excitement this week included:
- Plasma 6 merges its Overview and Desktop Grid together into one effect. Nate Graham calls this unified effect "really awesome work" and should be a nice change for Plasma 6.
- Plasma 6 Wayland has a new system tray monitor to show when someone is using the web camera.
- Floating panels now have nice shadows and with no "chunky" margins when de-floated.
- Metal + Alt + L is a new global shortcut by default to switch between the current and last-used keyboard layout.
- Icons drawn by Kirigami.Icon now look better and sharper when using fractional scaling.
- Improved presentation of permissions for Flatpak apps within Discover.
- With the Plasma systemd integration, Plasma is now more comprehensive about ensuring processes are killed when logging out.
- Improved appearance of Breeze-themed GTK2 applications.
More details on these changes via Nate's blog .