Nate Graham has talked up Plasma 6 reaching the level of stability where Plasma 5 ended. This basis is on hitting only thirty 15-minute Plasma bugs remaining. Graham argued:
"Notably, we’re back to only 30 15-minute Plasma bugs — the lowest level since February of this year right before Plasma 6 was launched! Essentially, having regained the level of stability we had at the end of Plasma 5 in only 6 months, we’re super well positioned to drive this even further in the coming months. With Plasma 6 offering both stability and features, who says you can’t have it all?"
Some of the other KDE accomplishments for this week include:
- The Plasma weather widget adding a "feels like" temperature indicator.
- UI improvements to KDE System Settings as part of modernizing it. This work includes landing a redesign of the System Settings' keyboard page, the Thunderbolt page, and various other elements of the KDE System Settings area.
- Fixed pasting text into XWayland-based apps thanks to a KWin fix.
- Plasma 6.2 adds support for rendering intents and black point compensation to KWin's Wayland color management code.
- KWin now supports the alpha-modifier Wayland protocol for Plasma 6.2.
- A fix when using Qt 6.8 to avoid icon bluriness.
- Improvements to the KDE Human Interface Guidelines.
More details on these changes over on Nate's blog .