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I might be busy early next month, so I’m posting this a few days early so I get it out of the way!

This was a big week for backend work, especially on the subject of power management and energy efficiency! Plasma 6 General info - Open issues: 81 New Features Welcome Center's first page can now be customized by distros--or for that matter, by users (me: Nate Graham, link) User Interface Improvements The KDE desktop portal implementation…

This was a big week for KRunner! In addition, the number of open Plasma 6 issues continues to tick down. Thanks to everyone who's been making this happen! Plasma 6 General info - Open issues: 81 You can now manually configure certain types of search results in KRunner to be high priority and hence always…

About 6 weeks ago, I posted a tentative roadmap for Plasma 6. I wanted to give everyone an update on how things have gone since then! So where are we? I previously explained that we were somewhere in between "clean up the code" and "Implement planned features and changes"--stages 3 and 4. I predicted that…

This week was a bit on the slow side as people are on vacation and preparing for Akademy 2023, which begins next week! Nevertheless progress on Plasma 6 continued, with a notable uptick in open bug reports as a result of more people testing it out, which is good! If you haven't tried it yet,…

This week probably the biggest news is that in Plasma 6, the Night Color feature will work as expected on Wayland when you're using an NVIDIA GPU! Because NVIDIA's drivers don't support the necessary Gamma LUT features to make it work in an optimal way as on Intel and AMD GPUs, we had to use…

Last week's focus on bugs continues into this week, with the VHI-priority Plasma bugs slashed down to just three! In addition, Plasma 6 UI improvements are starting to land now that it's stabilized a bit. In fact I'm typing this post from within a Plasma 6 session right now! User Interface Improvements In Elisa, double-clicking…

This week was a veritable fiesta of bugfixing, and we cut Plasma's list of VHI priority bugs nearly in half! Lots of other apps got bug fixes, too. And finally, KDE's volunteer contributors landed some great new features and UI improvements! New Features Skanpage now offers a "preview" feature in which you can select multiple…

This week a lot of bugs and other issues got fixed, including a major overhaul of KWin's multi-GPU infrastructure for Intel and AMD GPUs in Plasma 6 to make it "not suck" anymore! Big thanks to Xaver Hugl for this impactful work. And here's a sampling of other cool work: New features When performing an…

This week some of your favorite KDE apps got lots of positive changes! Dolphin, Kate, Okular, Elisa, Partition Manager, and Filelight all received some nice improvements. In the background, Plasma 6 porting work continues. I've now got a working Plasma 6 dev session on my machine. It's still rough, but it's usable. Now I can…