KDE developer Nate Graham shares his insights and updates on the current state of the KDE ecosystem in his weekend update blog post every week. This week's KDE update highlights major improvements to the Linux desktop environment, with particular focus on Discover applications and Plasma 6.2 .

KDE's software center application Discover has received multiple UI improvements, performance enhancements, and bug fixes, indicating its increasing maturity and stability. In addition to Discover, Plasma 6.2 also benefits from a variety of significant UI improvements and bug fixes, cementing its position as a powerful and user-friendly desktop environment.

This article provides a brief overview of KDE changes and enhancements based on an update posted by Nate Graham on the Adventures in Linux and KDE blog.

Table of contents

• New Features
• UI improvements
• Error fix
• Performance and technical updates

• Automation and systemization KDE Plasma 6.2 update: Discover UI improvements, bug fixes, and performance enhancements

New Features

• Users can now map the drawing pen button to mouse clicks, extending the existing functionality of mapping it to keyboard shortcuts. The user interface of this feature has also been improved.
• When the screen is connected or disconnected, a new sound is now played (enabled by default), similar to notifications from existing USB devices.

UI improvements

• The Discover application page has been redesigned to better follow the Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) for better margins, more compact content rating displays, underlined links for web URLs (rather than buttons), spaces for substituting dividers, and repositioning of distribution packaged application permission displays.
• The clipboard project menu accessed using Meta V now shares the Plasma clipboard widget with its UI. This change provides maintenance benefits, a more consistent UI, and enhanced visual effects for large amounts of text and images.
• Overview and Plasma Vaults’ Welcome Center page have been visually upgraded with new graphics. These graphics dynamically adapt to the system's active theme settings.
• Discover's notification system tray icon frequency is now aligned with the system's notification frequency settings and can be configured in the system settings.
• When tiling the Breeze theme window to the left or right edge of the screen, there are no resizable pixels in the topmost area, improving usability by following Fitz's law.
• The moving widget can now be scaled correctly, preventing it from getting too large on larger panels.
• The system-set nightlight page improves functionality to prevent manual timing of setting up start and stop conversions from overlapping, and visually representing this limitation.
• The auto-start page in system settings has a HIG-compliant redesigned menu button.
• For visual consistency and HIG recommendations, the 'list-remove' Breeze icon has been updated to a red X, matching the 'edit-delete-remove' icon.

Error fix

• Resolved common causes of Powerdevil crashes that occur after the system wakes up from sleep due to inactivity.
• Sleep suppression requests from Flatpak/sandbox/using portal are now available.
• Fixed an issue where Plasma panel widgets become interactable prematurely before moving the panel to a different screen edge (before leaving editing mode).
• Two issues related to Plasma's "center" and "zoom and crop" wallpaper positioning have been resolved, which resulted in incorrect image display at certain sizes and screen scales.
• Three regressions that affect folder views in Plasma 6 have been fixed: widgets represent retaining their custom titles, persistence of old tags during renaming, and the inability to select other items through the keyboard after renaming.
• Discover no longer truncates the first letter on the application page that is not compatible with the non-SPDX.
• Fixed: Tab keystrokes leak into the XWayland app during Alt Tab window switching when using the default XWayland app keyboard to snooping settings.
• Eliminates the pixel gap that appears on both sides of the XWayland application when using certain fractional scaling factors.
• Resolved Qt errors that caused frequent Plasma crashes during common multi-screen activity.

Performance and technical updates

• Discover's icon loading is now non-blocking, resulting in faster application startup times and smoother scrolling.
• The sticky key functions of "Ring when using modifier keys" and "Ring when switching lock keys" are now implemented on Wayland, completing the support of sticky keys.
• KWin will no longer select an incorrect default scaling for displays that report inaccurately their physical sizes (between 0 and 3 mm).
• Wayland: Improved activation behavior of applications that intentionally suppress cursor startup feedback.

Automation and systemization

• The new "All Errors I Report" link on the http://www.miracleart.cn/link/a97484e07cad027a9fb828764c1dcf6a homepage allows users to view all their error reports, including closed reports.
• The warning message from the error administrator (remindering the user that the error will be automatically closed) has become even more concise.
• The new error template has been updated to provide a clearer description of the instructions for filling in the version number, including the recommended use of the kinfo command line tool.

resource :

• http://www.miracleart.cn/link/09094f96926cff36073b2fec98e21fb7

Related readings :

• KDE weekly updates (Issue 2): clearer cursors, better thumbnails, and lots of improvements

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