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This Week in Plasma: a lot of polishing!
Quoting: This Week in Plasma: a lot of polishing! - KDE Blogs —
This week we didn’t focus on features, and instead fixed bugs, improved performance, and improved the UI. There were several concerted pushes on various initiatives that bore a lot of fruit! Relatedly, if you notice that the number of high-priority bugs has risen, this is the result of recent bug triaging to prioritize those issues for fixing soon.
But don’t worry, there’s still a lot of feature work happening in the background, it’s just that none of it landed this week. Ultimately it’s good that we take our time here, as half-baked new features have been a source of bugs in the past. We want to make sure we’re merging work in a state that minimizes the chance of regressions.
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KDE is removing all of the colorful third-party app icons from its Breeze icon theme
The latest "This Week in Plasma" update from KDE focuses less on new features and more on fixes, performance tweaks, and the removal of colorful third-party app icons from Breeze.
Linuxiac:
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Plasma 6.5 Takes Shape with Improved Notifications and Theme Tweaks
KDE Plasma 6.5 progress report highlights improved notifications, sound tweaks, accessibility updates, and bug fixes across the desktop.
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Regarding aesthetics, the Adwaita GTK theme now shows up under its proper name in System Settings rather than simply “Default,” and accessibility improvements have been made to the Flatpak permissions page. Plus, Plasma widgets’ “About” sections also look cleaner, with website links placed in a more logical spot instead of next to license information.
On the graphical side, blur effects are behaving more naturally. Previously, maximizing or moving a window with a blurred background could cause distracting flickers or mismatched textures. Those quirks have now been ironed out.
Ruben:
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KDE Plasma removing third-party software icons
There are lots of interesting and useful changes coming to KDE Plasma, according to this latest post by Nate Graham. This one surprisingly stuck out to me: [...]