Ivan Tkachenko News Today

This week we put some of the final Plasma 6.0 bugs to rest, and continued working towards Plasma 6.1 with a variety of UI improvements. Nothing ground-breaking this week, just a slow grind of useful work towards a solid release! UI Improvements Kate now considers a file as recent when it's saved or closed, not…

New Features On System Settings' Region & Language page, you can now choose how you'd like storage sizes to be displayed. This means you can change them to the more common MB and GB style, instead of MiB and GiB, for example. Note that the default value has not changed, but you have the option…

For years KWin has offered modifier-only shortcut handling via an obscure and undocumented method of editing the kwinrc file. Well, no more: in Plasma 6.1, KDE's shortcut choosers will accept lone modifier keys natively! This makes it much easier to, for example, re-bind what the Meta key does: now you can easily make it open…

This week the focus was on annoying longstanding issues, and a whole bunch of them are now history! If you've used KDE software for any significant amount of time, I bet you noticed and were annoyed by at least one of the issues mentioned below, and can now rejoice at their annihilation! This effort has…

This week we've got quite a bit of everything! Mega-release UI improvements and bug-fixes, new features for post-mega-release software, more bugfixes for KF5 software, performance improvements, better internal documentation, and impactful ecosystem improvements. Let's dive in! Post-Mega-Release KCalc now shows you the equation you just entered, in addition to the calculated result (Gabriel Barrantes, KCalc…

Plasma 6 beta 1 has been released! And so far the feedback has been very positive. A few final features snuck in before we started on the mega bugfixing marathon, which began this week! Please do continue to test the beta and report bugs. Other useful activities include fixing bugs and donating to the Plasma…

Well, I skipped October, oops. So it's been two months since my last Plasma 6 update, but you can find all kinds of other good stuff about Plasma 6 on https://planet.kde.org, including this post from Kai. Probably the big news is that we released the Plasma 6 Alpha today! What does that mean? Well, go…

Aaaaaand it's a big one! I challenge anyone to read this week's (well, these past two weeks') report and not find something they've been wanting for a long time. :) Plasma 6 (Includes all software to be released on the February 28th mega-release: Plasma, Gear-aligned apps, and Frameworks) General info - Open issues: 109 Per-screen…

This week there's a lot of news on the accessibility front in particular! Beyond that, we have a fairly juicy assortment of other new features and user interface improvements, so have a look: Plasma 6 General info - Open issues: 103 KWin now includes an effect that can change the colors on the whole screen…

The floodgates opened this week, and a lot of consequential in-progress work was merged: juicy new Plasma 6 features, long-awaited bugfixes, spicy automated testing, and more!!! Plasma 6 General info - Open issues: 94 The Overview and Desktop Grid effects have been merged together into one, with fluid and natural-feeling touchpad gestures to transition between…