KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly recap of all the interesting KDE desktop and app developments. Highlights this week include:
- KDE has added support for SVG-based cursor themes to allow for "beautiful sharp cursors at any size." KDE is looking at making this SVG-based cursor themes a cross-desktop specification "in the near future". This SVG-based cursor theme support is a great move and will be part of Plasma 6.2. Great move and excellent finally seeing more work on SVG-based cursors happening as it makes a lot of sense.
- KDE has also merged support for the cross-desktop thumbnailer specification.
- Plasma now allows hiding of clocks from the login and lock screens.
- KDE's Breeze Light and Breeze Dark styles now respect your system-wide accent color.
- Plasma 6.1.4 fixes an Intel + NVIDIA hybrid GPU configuration that led to a noticeable frame drop issue.
- Discover's search feature is now much faster.
- Much faster system performance when using ICC color profiles.
- Plasma 6.2 will allow video players to more likely trigger KWin's direct-to-scan-out functionality for better efficiency.
More details on the KDE work this week via Nate's blog .