This Week in Plasma: UI and performance improvements

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Nov 22, 2025,
updated Nov 23, 2025

Quoting: This Week in Plasma: UI and performance improvements - KDE Blogs —

Windows can now be selectively excluded from screen recording! This can be invoked from the titlebar context menu, Task Manager context menu, and window rules.

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Update

Also in GNOME:

• This Week in GNOME: #226 Exporting Events

  Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from November 14 to November 21.

  Thanks to FineFindus, who previously worked on exporting events as .ics files, GNOME Calendar can now export calendars as .ics files, courtesy of merge request !615! This will be available in GNOME 50.

Linuxiac:

• KDE Plasma 6.6 Will Introduce Per-Window Screen-Recording Exclusions

  The KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment is taking shape, and although there are still a few months to go before the final stable release—scheduled for February 17, 2026—the devs have published on the KDE Blog what changes to expect from this version. After covering some of them last week, we now have a new batch to look at.

  A notable one is a new option that lets users exclude specific windows from screen recordings. This can be accessed from the titlebar menu, the Task Manager menu, or through window rules, thus giving people who record or stream their desktops more granular control.

  On the visual adjustments side, Plasma 6.6 brings back a darker, more vibrant blur similar to what users saw in Plasma 6.4. For those who prefer a different look, the blur saturation level is now configurable, allowing users to fine-tune the effect.