Crash fixes and more Wayland improvements remain the common theme for KDE this year. Over the past week some of the work items that landed included:
- The KDE Activities feature now "mostly works" on Wayland. There still are more improvements to go but should be buttoned up for KDE Plasma 5.22.
- The font size can now be changed for Sticky Note widgets.
- Ark now supports extracting Zip files that have Windows-style backslashes used as path separators.
- More Plasma crash fixes, including so that the Plasma Wayland session will not crash when plugging in an external screen while running a non-GUI session like a virtual terminal. There is another crash fix addressed that would happen for KWin with certain low-power embedded GPUs.
- Ultra-wide screens are now identified as 21:9 within the system settings rather than 63:27.
More details on the KDE changes of the past week can be found via this blog post by KDE developer Nate Graham.