Some of the improvements merged around KDE Plasma for this first week of July include:
- KDE Plasma 6.4.3 is bringing a change to KWin to not auto-generate low-but-not-1 scaling factors. The scale factors close to 1 but not precisely 1 end up producing a lot of blurriness that end up providing a very degraded user experience. Now just a value of 1 (100%) will be shown instead.
- Screencasting with Plasma 6.5.0 for a specific window will also now include any pop-ups that the target window creates.
- KDE has been seeing a lot of work on its own virtual keyboard with the hope of eventually replacing the Maliit virtual keyboard. A lot of work has been going on to this new KDE virtual keyboard although at the moment isn't yet ready for end-users.
- Plasma 6.3.6 will fix an issue that could cause screen flickering when playing a full-screen game and switching away focus.
- Plasma 6.4.2 will fix a KWin crash if removing some of the keyboard shortcuts for the Task Switcher and then invoked it with any remaining shortcuts.
- KDE Frameworks 6.16 improves the system detection for determining the more powerful GPU for the "Run this program using the more powerful GPU" feature.
- Various other fixes.
More details on the Plasma changes for this first week of July via blogs.kde.org .