A tad over two years ago, I revealed the 15-Minute Bug Initiative an attempt to improve the out-of-the box user experience for Plasma by focusing on fixing obvious papercut issues. The idea was to crush the meme of "KDE is buggy" the same way we systematically addressed similar complaints like "KDE is ugly" and "KDE is…
In addition to the changes made and announced during the recent Plasma Sprint at Tuxedo Computers' offices in Augsburg, lots of other things have been brewing as well! New Features Kate now supports Godot Engine's Language Server Protocol (Michael Alexsander, Kate 23.08. Link) In Okular, you can now copy an annotation's text to the clipboard…
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…