KDE Frameworks 5.111 Is Out and KDE Plasma 6 Now Has a Release Schedule
The monthly KDE Frameworks updates continue and version 5.111 is here as a small release that only fixes a crash affecting the KDE Plasma desktop and KDE apps when they are instructed to use DBus to launch an application with a malformed .desktop file name that is out of compliance with the specifications.
In addition, KDE Frameworks 5.111 also fixes a bug causing KDE apps that use KIO to crash when trying to overwrite a file, adds the ability to focus buttons in the toolbars of KDE apps that use the KXMLGui framework with the keyboard, and adds support for FSID as the device identifier for the Baloo file indexing and file search framework for the Plasma desktop.
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KDE Plasma 6 Now Has a Release Date
February 28th, 2024. Mark your calendars, as that's the official date the KDE team has set for the release of KDE Plasma 6.0.
According to the official KDE release schedule, February 21 is the private tarball release, and February 28 is the official public release, which includes KDE Gear 24.02.0, KDE Plasma 6.0, and KDE Frameworks 6.0.
Some of the work that has been completed includes custom ordering for KRunner search results, printers KCM rewritten in QML, double-click by default, tap-to-click by defaults, and icons throughout Plasma now come from systemwide icon theme.
As well, you'll find support for automatic bug reporting in DrKonqi, autostart KCM shows details about entries, no more chunky page footers in System Settings, completely reorganized sidebar in System Settings, smoother mouse wheel scrolling in apps based on QtQuick, and the floating panel will be now the default.
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KDE Plasma 6.0 Release Date Revealed – Let the Hype Begin
But one question has persisted: when will it be released?
Last month KDE devs shared a tentative target of February 2024, a window within which the first formal release of KDE Plasma 6.0 would emerge.
Now they’ve gone one better.
An official release schedule has been unveiled and it pins down the precise release date for KDE Plasma 6.0 – plus many of the related technology stacks paired with it.
In fact, there are so many package releases happening at the same time that devs are dubbing this the MEGA RELEASE (so please apply a suitably epic vocal sound effect when reading that name aloud in your head).
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KDE Plasma 6 Will Not Support Older Desktop Widgets
KDE Plasma 6 is a highly anticipated upgrade among desktop environment releases.
Recently, its release schedule was revealed with the first Alpha version going live on 8th November 2023, final Beta on 31st January 2023, and the stable planned for February 28, 2024.
Considering KDE Plasma 5.x series included several refinements and feature additions, many users are excited about what KDE Plasma 6 brings to the table.
If you are curious, we already covered the major changes coming to KDE Plasma 6. Hence, it is not a surprise that it will come baked in big changes.
However, with significant overhauls, there can be some experience breaking changes, such as not having any older widgets run on Plasma 6.
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Reworking Recent Files search for Plasma 6
For Plasma 6, lots of KRunner plugins and framework functionalities were improved. I took quite a bit of time to work on the recent files search plugin used by KRunner and Plasmas application launchers like Kickoff. This included performance improvements, usability improvements and technical refactorings.
Let's start off with the usability improvements: While the runner was named “Recent Files”, it still provided results for directories. In Dolphin on the other hand, “Recent Locations” are a separate location you may access next to “Recent Files”.