The normal weekly post will be delayed a day. Consider it extra fourth dimension to merge your changes. 🙂

This week nosotros got 2 skillful 15-minute bugs fixed, with a few more in progress that accept a target merge date of next calendar week! And of form at that place's a good smattering of other positive changes too:

xv-Minute Bugs Resolved

Current number of bugs: 79, down from 81. Current listing of bugs

All the notifications that were suppressed while y'all were in Do Not Disturb style no longer flood the screen when y'all leave Do Not Disturb mode; instead, they simply appear in the history pop-up, ready for you to read them in that location (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.25)

Folders in Recent Documents lists throughout Plasma now display their real folder icons instead of a broken-looking "unknown" icon (Méven Car, Plasma 5.25)

New Features

KRunner now has its own config window rather than re-using the systemwide search plugins page in System Settings, and in that window it at present lets you disable the behavior where typing text while the desktop is focused will open it (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.25):

Bugfixes & Performance Improvements

Ark's "Extract here" context menu items no longer do and so much unnecessary piece of work, making Dolphin'due south context carte du jour faster to open up and causing fewer hangs on network locations (Kai Uwe Broulik, Ark 22.04)

Opening a new Private window in Firefox using its Task Manager job context menu no longer sometimes opens the window with the path to your domicile directory in the URL field (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma 5.24.four)

When using a Global Menu, closing the active app now clears the menubar rather than leaving its menu there every bit a zombie (Jan Blackquill, Plasma 5.24.4)

Window titlebar buttons now become reversed as expected when you're using the organization with a right-to-left linguistic communication (Jan Blackquill, Plasma v.24.iv)

KWin's blur event no longer sometimes results in flickering for windows that apply blurred backgrounds (Mathias Tillman, Plasma 5.24.4)

Clicking the "Launch" button in Discover to launch an app now ever results in but one thing getting launched, instead of sometimes launching several things (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma five.25)

When used in correct-to-left-text fashion, a variety of QtQuick controls now look right, including sliders (Jan Blackquill, Frameworks v.93)

Showing the "Get New Widgets" window from the Widget Explorer sidebar no longer blocks/freezes the rest of Plasma until information technology's closed (Alexander Lohnau, Frameworks 5.93)

User Interface Improvements

GTK applications using the Cakewalk-GTK theme now fully lucifer the new appearance used in KDE apps (Jan Blackquill and Artem Grinev, Plasma 5.25)

The Plasma Wayland session's touchpad gestures now permit you reverse the direction of your fingers to cancel an in-progress gesture, when the effect in question supports information technology; right now only Desktop Grid does, merely more are coming soon! (Eric Edlund, Plasma 5.25)

The "active chore progress" notification icon in the System Tray at present shows you the average completion percentage in its tooltip (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.25):

The Media Controller applet now shows a tooltip indicating the elapsed playback time when yous drag the slider handle (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma v.25):

Lists of recent documents in Task Managing director Job context menus can now contain recent things that aren't files, such as folders and fifty-fifty abstract concepts similar "Contempo Downloads" and "Recent connections" (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma v.25)

Notice can now warn yous well-nigh the risks of installing proprietary software (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.25):

This'll appear when y'all click on that "What's the adventure?" link

Discover now shows you the size of installed apps and other content on its "Installed" page (Jonas Knarbakk, Plasma v.25)

The desktop context menu has lost its "Lock Screen" and "Log Out" items, to slim it down to only what's relevant (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.25):

Of course you can add them back if yous want, since this menu'southward contents are configurable

…And everything else

This blog only covers the tip of the iceberg! Tons of KDE apps whose evolution I don't have time to follow aren't represented here, and I also don't mention backend refactoring, improved exam coverage, and other changes that are generally not user-facing. If you're hungry for more, cheque out https://planet.kde.org, where you tin can find more news from other KDE contributors.

How You Tin can Help

If y'all're a developer, bank check out our 15-Minute Problems Initiative. Working on these issues makes a big difference chop-chop!

Otherwise, have a look at https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved to notice means to be part of a project that really matters. Each correspondent makes a huge divergence in KDE; you are non a number or a cog in a machine! You lot don't have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn't when I got started. Endeavour information technology, you'll like it! We don't bite!

Finally, consider making a tax-deductible donation to the KDE due east.5. foundation.

Rejoice all, for the infamous "Korners" problems has been fixed! This issue caused third-political party window decoration themes with rounded corners to brandish a square mistiness area when using burred backgrounds. Themes are now able to (and must) specify a mask graphic that will prune the blur area to the visible surface area of the window decorations. Thank you to Michail Vourlakos for implementing this fix in Plasma 5.25!

But that'south not all in the Big Deal section, for Kate and other KTextEditor-based apps finally have multi-cursor support! You can create multiple cursors in iii ways:

  • Alt+Click in unlike places to add new cursors there
  • Press Alt+Ctrl+upwards/down to add new cursors on lines above or below the current i
  • Select multiple lines of text and printing Alt+Shift+I to put a cursor on each i

Thanks then much to Waqar Ahmed for this astonishing work, which will be in Frameworks 5.93!

fifteen-Minute Bugs

Current number of bugs: 81, aforementioned as final week. Current list of bugs

Other New Features

Okular now opens to a welcome screen when you launch information technology without a certificate (Jiří Wolker, Okular 22.04):

On Arrangement Settings' Shortcuts page, you can now assign global shortcuts to launch arbitrary commands and script files, equally well every bit just apps (Arjen Hiemstra, Plasma 5.25)

Bugfixes & Performance Improvements

Dolphin and various other places once again testify thumbnails for Krita (.kra) prototype files (Alexander Lohnau, Dolphin 22.04)

Kate'due south settings window is no longer also big to fit in small screens; information technology is now able to scroll in such a state of affairs (Christoph Cullmann, Kate 22.04)

All of Elisa'south shortcuts now always work no matter which language you are using information technology in (Olivier Trichet, Elisa 22.04)

When Elisa is configured to minimize to the System Tray when its primary window is closed, clicking on its tray icon now raises the window to the front as well (Olivier Trichet, Elisa 22.04)

Inline "Save" buttons embedded inside PDF documents now work in Okular (Albert Astals Cid, Okular 22.04)

In Gwenview, shortcuts for "get to side by side" and "go to previous" no longer stop working in one case you accomplish a video file (Elliot Lester, Gwenview 22.04)

System Settings no longer sometimes crashes when you switch between Sidebar and Icons view (Ismael Asensio, Plasma 5.24.3)

The icon size popup in System Settings' Icons page once again has the right size (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.24.iii)

In the Plasma Wayland session, when you have entered the Desktop Grid issue with a four-finger swipe upward gesture, you can now go out it with a four-finger swipe downwardly gesture, and the animation is a bit smoother as well (Jan Blackquill, Plasma v.24.4)

In the Plasma Wayland session, the "RGB Range" feature no longer sometimes randomly gets dislocated and disables itself (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 5.24.iv)

In the Plasma Wayland session, sharing/recording/streaming your screen no longer sometimes results in the prototype being inappropriately rotated 180 degrees (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma five.25)

Items downloadable through the "Get new [affair]" system that contain files with TAR archives whose mime types evaluate to "x-tar" can at present exist downloaded and used (Alexander Lohnau, Frameworks 5.93)

A diversity of Kirigami list items now display their inline buttons properly when using a right-to-left linguistic communication (January Blackquill, Frameworks 5.93)

Mean solar day/calendar month/yr in calendar applets are now always visible when using 3rd-party Plasma themes that have opaque choice effects (Ivan Čukić, Frameworks 5.93)

In the Plasma X11 session, "Get new [thing]" windows now have a close push button in their titlebar (Alexander Lohnau, Frameworks v.93)

User Interface Improvements

Elisa's playlist detail buttons now plummet into a menu when there's non enough room to show them (Tranter Madi, Elisa 22.04):

Items in Elisa'due south left sidebar now become thicker in Tablet Mode merely are thinner by default, and the view'due south scrollbar no longer overlaps the icons when it is collapsed into icon mode (Tranter Madi, Me: Nate Graham, and Jack Hill, Elisa 22.04)

Elisa'due south metadata window tin can now be airtight by pressing the Escape key (Adam Hill, Elisa 22.04)

EPub files now display thumbnails (Michał Goliński, Dolphin 22.04):

In Gwenview, the left and correct pointer keys at present always switch between items when you're in View manner, no matter what part of the UI has keyboard focus (me: Nate Graham, Gwenview 22.04)

Battery charge thresholds are now only shown for internal batteries, which after all are the only batteries they apply to (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma v.24.3)

The filigree view of wallpapers is at present sorted past wallpaper proper noun, rather than semi-randomly-looking (Noah Davis, Plasma 5.24.3)

In the Plasma Wayland session the virtual keyboard now smoothly slides into place when information technology appears and disappears (Arjen Hiemstra, Plasma 5.25)

The clipboard applet now remembers the last type of barcode y'all used for the purpose of sharing clipboard items with barcodes (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.25)

On the Breeze SDDM login screen theme, changing the keyboard layout or session no longer causes the password field to lose keyboard focus (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.25)

Headers of QML-based pages in Organization Settings really finally actually don't flicker anymore when you lot switch pages (Devin Lin, Frameworks 5.93)

The Cakewalk Plasma style arrow graphic now looks like all other Cakewalk-styled arrows (Artem Grinev, Frameworks v.93):

Web presence

We finally added the Steam Deck to https://kde.org/hardware! 🙂 (Momo Cao, right at present)

The download link at https://neon.kde.org is at present much more prominent (Guillherme Silva, right now)

…And everything else

This weblog simply covers the tip of the iceberg! Tons of KDE apps whose development I don't have time to follow aren't represented here, and I also don't mention backend refactoring, improved test coverage, and other changes that are generally not user-facing. If you're hungry for more, check out https://planet.kde.org, where you tin can find more news from other KDE contributors.

How You Tin can Assistance

If you're a developer, check out our 15-Minute Bug Initiative. Working on these problems makes a big difference chop-chop! This is the second week with no 15-infinitesimal bugs resolved, and information technology would be nice to refocus on those. I know anybody's busy, only they ain't gonna prepare themselves. 🙂

Otherwise, take a look at https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved to find means to be role of a project that really matters. Each contributor makes a huge departure in KDE; you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You lot don't have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn't when I got started. Endeavour information technology, you'll like it! Nosotros don't bite!

Finally, consider making a tax-deductible donation to the KDE e.V. foundation.

Unfortunately we didn't get whatever 15-minute bugs stock-still this week, and overall action was lower than usual. I suspect at least part of the reason is fallout from the ongoing war in Ukraine, which has affected several prominent Ukrainian KDE contributors and also cutting off Russian contributors from many of their usual internet resources. Some humanitarian aid and media organizations that yous can donate to may be found here. Let u.s. all promise for peace, and remain united in our pursuit to build the finest and most humane software.

Even so, back in KDE land we did accomplish quite a flake, including a fancy new "Firmware Security" folio in Info Center!

15-Minute Bugs Resolved

None! 😦

Electric current number of bugs: 81, upwardly from 80. Current list of bugs

New Features

Skanpage now lets y'all configure which scanner settings are visible on its scanner options sidebar, in case you regularly apply any uncommon or not-default scanner options (Alexander Stippich, Skanpage 22.04)

KRunner and other KRunner-powered searches can at present convert teaspoons and tablespoons to and from each other and other units (Corbin Schwimmbeck, Frameworks 5.92):

Just in case that was something you ever wanted to know

Info Center at present has a new "Firmware Security" page that provides information about the security of your system's low-level components (Harald Sitter, Plasma 5.25):

Bugfixes & Performance Improvements

In the Plasma Wayland session, Yakuake's "slide upwardly/slide down" blitheness now works (Tiernan Hubble, Yakuake 22.04)

Adding tracks to Elisa's playlist when shuffle mode is being used no longer causes the added tracks to have the wrong names (Martin Seher, Elisa 22.04)

When using a session, Kate now correctly saves its list of open documents/tabs when the app is automatically quit by logging out, restarting, or shutting downwardly, and then that the next time you open information technology, information technology shows that you were working on last time (Waqar Ahmed, Kate 22.04)

Dolphin's context menu is now significantly faster to open when Ark is installed (Kai Uwe Broulik, Ark 22.04)

In the Plasma Wayland session, screen sharing/recording/casting in full-screen apps now works (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 5.24.three)

In the Plasma Wayland session, colors are no longer sometimes weirdly dithered with certain hardware (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 5.24.3)

The "Help" buttons in Info Eye once over again work (Harald Sitter, Plasma 5.24.3)

In the Plasma Wayland session, the virtual keyboard no longer overlaps half of your vertical panel setup (if you are using such a setup) when it appears (Arjen Hiemstra, Plasma 5.24.3)

When showing seconds in a Digital Clock applet, seconds no longer skip at minute changes (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.24.3)

In the Plasma Wayland session, hitting the Escape key while dragging something now cancels the drag similar you lot would expect (Marco Martin, Plasma five.25)

In the Plasma X11 session, rotating a touchscreen no longer leads to touches going to the wrong expanse of the screen; everything now works as you would expect (Marco Martin, Plasma 5.25)

Dolphin and Gwenview no longer crash when you lot drag a file or folder over the tiptop of their Places panels (Someone going by the pseudonym "Snooxx", Frameworks v.92)

User Interface Improvements

Compressing files from Dolphin's context menu now produces an archive file whose filename is based on the names of the compressed files, not the folder they alive in (Méven Car and me: Nate Graham, Ark 22.04)

Organisation monitor bar charts no longer erroneously lack spacing between bars (John Fano, Plasma 5.24.three):

Applet labels in the Organization Tray grid view are at present vertically aligned such that the start line in multi-line labels e'er matches other applets even those with i or iii lines (Michail Vourlakos, Plasma v.24.3):

Text in Breeze-styled vertical tabs is at present vertically centered in the tabs, rather than awkwardly top-aligned (January Blackquill, Plasma 5.24.3)

Menu items in Breeze-styled GTK apps are now exactly the aforementioned height as menus in Qt and KDE apps (Jan Blackquill, Plasma 5.25)

KRunner and other KRunner-powered searches at present let y'all spellcheck words in any linguistic communication with enabled dictionaries, non simply the master one (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.25)

The quick procedure view window that you can see by pressing Ctrl+Esc now remembers its size and position (in the X11 session, at least), and gets initially placed according to the specified window placement fashion (Eugene Popov, Plasma 5.25)

…And everything else

This blog only covers the tip of the iceberg! Tons of KDE apps whose development I don't accept time to follow aren't represented here, and I also don't mention backend refactoring, improved test coverage, and other changes that are by and large not user-facing. If you're hungry for more, bank check out https://planet.kde.org, where you tin can find more news from other KDE contributors.

How You Can Help

If you're a programmer, check out our xv-Infinitesimal Bug Initiative. Working on these issues makes a big difference chop-chop!

Otherwise, have a await at https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved to discover ways to be function of a projection that really matters. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE; yous are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don't have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn't when I got started. Try it, you lot'll like it! We don't bite!

Finally, consider making a tax-deductible donation to the KDE e.V. foundation.

Well, I know I said Plasma v.24 was a smooth release, and it mostly has been! Just nonetheless all of you have found various bugs afflicting your varied and various use cases, and we've been working difficult to fix them this week. Some very important multi-monitor fixes and long-term improvements also landed which should be welcome for people with often-docked laptops.

fifteen-Infinitesimal Bugs Resolved

Current number of bugs: fourscore, downward from 83. Current list of bugs

You lot volition no longer see an unnecessary "Connection Activated" notification right after you log in (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.24.2)

Mappings of desktops and panels in multi-screen setups should at present be much more robust since invalid screen entries won't be added to it under certain circumstances anymore (Plasma five.24.3, Marco Martin)

Fixed one of the near common cases of Plasma crashing on launch in the Plasma Wayland session when you have a multi-monitor setup (Marco Martin, Plasma 5.25)

New Features

Skanpage now lets yous share scanned documents (including multi-page PDFs) using the standard KDE sharing system (Alexander Stippich, Skanpage 22.04). If you oasis't checked out Skanpage yet, requite it a whirl. It's really overnice!

You tin can now change your user avatar to be a plainly abstract "user" icon in front end of a colored groundwork of your selection (Jan Blackquill, Plasma 5.25):

Added a agglomeration of new spider web search queries (Thiago Sueto, Frameworks 5.92). If y'all don't know about KRunner'southward web search capabilities, you lot can acquire virtually it here!

Bugfixes & Performance Improvements

Using Ark to excerpt Zippo archives with empty folders no longer causes those folders to have their "last accessed" dates set to sometime in the hereafter (Albert Astals Cid, Ark 21.12.three)

Ark can at present successfully create multi-part 7zip archives whose individual parts are each under 1Mb (Max Brazhnikov, Ark 21.12.3)

Kate once again always jumps to the previously-open tab when the current tab is closed (Waqar Ahmed, Kate 22.04)

Dolphin'southward primary view now handles right-to-left languages properly (Jan Blackquill, Dolphin 22.04)

Fixed a visual glitch in Dolphin's primary view that could be triggered by zooming (Eugene Popov, Dolphin 22.04)

In the Plasma Wayland session, fixed 1 of the ways that KWin could crash when you enable a disabled external monitor (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 5.24.ii)

Organisation Settings no longer sometimes crashes when you change a monitor's refresh rate (Marek Beleščiak, Plasma 5.24.2)

Stock-still i of the ways that Plasma could crash when undocking a docked laptop (Aleix Political leader Gonzalez, Plasma 5.24.two)

Fixed another way your console could disappear when screens are added, removed, or wake upwardly from sleep (Marco Martin, Plasma v.24.two)

Deleting a not-active user in Arrangement Settings' Users page no longer causes the UI to break (Nicolas Fella, Plasma 5.24.2)

When using Panel Spacer applets to center another applet on a panel, information technology no longer flickers and wobbles effectually when ane of the applets on the other side of either of the spacers changes in size (Martin Seher, Plasma v.24.two)

The Virtual Desktop Pager applet no longer lets app icons visually overflow the space they are contained within when used on a short panel, and now shows window outlines correctly when you're using Qt scaling on X11 (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.24.2)

Fixed a big contempo regression in multi-monitor+multi-GPU setups in the Plasma Wayland session (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 5.24.three)

Right-clicking on a System Tray app icon no longer causes the right-clicked app to get activated when left-clicking other Job Manager items (Ismael Asensio, Plasma v.24.3)

Y'all tin in one case again use changes to Organisation Settings' Touchpad page (Fabian Vogt, Plasma 5.24.iii)

The plasma_session process no longer leaks a bunch of memory (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.24.three)

Adjusting the backlight of your screen now ever works when using certain types of multi-GPU systems (Xingang Li, Plasma 5.24.3)

Discover no longer occasionally displays app or firmware text styling incorrectly (Tobias Fella, Plasma v.24.3)

File dialogs are at present faster to open when their initial view is a network location (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.24.3)

System Settings' Firewall folio no longer ever tells you lot that the default policy is "Permit" regardless of what the system'south actual default policy is (Lucas Biaggi, Plasma five.25)

In the Plasma Wayland session, launching DBus-activatable GTK3 apps at present works (Nicolas Fella, Frameworks v.92)

User Interface Improvements

Elisa's playlist has been mostly rewritten to employ standard Kirigami components which fixes multiple bugs such as bear upon scrolling being broken and rearranging playlist songs being unreliable, halves the number of lines of lawmaking, simplifies the implementation, and improves the presentation (Tranter Madi, Elisa 22.04):

Kate's quick search bar (invoked with Ctrl+F) no longer replaces the status bar while it'due south visible (Waqar Ahmed, Kate 22.04)

Added tooltips and exhaustive expanded assist text to Gwenview'due south "Fit" and "Prove Thumbnails" buttons (Felix Ernst, Gwenview 22.04)

Your proper noun no longer gets elided on the login screen when it'south more than about xi characters long and there is more than one user account on the system (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.24.3)

When you're using offline updates, and an offline update has failed to consummate, and Discover shows y'all a notification with the option to "Repair System", clicking on that button now provides y'all some feedback most what information technology's doing, and also tells you when the repair operation succeeds or fails ( Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.25)

Discover now shows a message in the app when y'all are running an old unsupported version of your distro, and bugs you to upgrade (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.25)

Breeze-themed tab bars now have better contrast with dark color schemes (Jan Blackquill, Plasma 5.25):

Kirigami FormLayout department headers are now assuming, to make them visually stand up out from the content in their sections (me: Nate Graham, Frameworks v.92):

…And everything else

This blog only covers the tip of the iceberg! Tons of KDE apps whose development I don't accept time to follow aren't represented hither, and I besides don't mention backend refactoring, improved test coverage, and other changes that are generally non user-facing. If yous're hungry for more, bank check out https://planet.kde.org, where you can detect more news from other KDE contributors.

How Y'all Can Assist

Delight consider altruistic to UNICEF or some other reputable relief organization working to provide humanitarian aid right now in Ukraine, where several prominent KDE contributors alive–not to mention 43 million other people who have suddenly found themselves in a warzone. When the world is on fire, e'er be a helper.

If you're a developer, check out our xv-Minute Bug Initiative. Working on these issues makes a large difference quickly!

Otherwise, have a await at https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved to discover ways to be part of a project that actually matters. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE; you are non a number or a cog in a motorcar! Y'all don't have to already be a developer, either. I wasn't when I got started. Try it, you'll similar it! We don't bite!

Finally, consider making a tax-deductible donation to the KDE e.Five. foundation.

I read a comment on Phoronix recently that reminded me why I love KDE Plasma:

"KDE is normal and information technology works"

We can ignore the argument to which this is a response, and forgive alcade for confusing the name of the community with the desktop environment. Regardless, "KDE is normal and it works" is in a nutshell what I retrieve makes KDE Plasma such a unique and shining point of lite in the FOSS world.

Plasma uses a normal, familiar layout: Panel on the bottom with an app launcher, pinned apps, system tray, and clock; desktop icons; visible buttons that mostly have text labels; minimize/maximize/shut buttons on windows. You know, normal stuff. You can change everything, but information technology starts out normal, unlike other desktop environment projects that are explicitly abnormal–being controversially opinionated well-nigh matters of design or having an unusual component layout. This is fine! Their departures from what's normal may in fact be better, and their developers and users they certainly think so. But tons of people out at that place don't want "may be better", they want "normal." And that's fine too. Our software is for them.

And KDE Plasma works. It has its bugs, only information technology is basically a solid and reliable piece of technology that isn't missing major features, either considering of a lack of resources or because design decisions preclude supporting them. It is non a hobbyist science project missing central functionality that might break entirely. It doesn't re-invent itself every year or 2 and become something different that might stop coming together your needs or tastes. Information technology has actionable plans for adapting to industry changes surrounding it that are actively existence carried out; it is non on a path to become obsolete or a technical dead end. No, it'southward only it's an imperfect and boring piece of infrastructure you lot tin nonetheless rely on.

I think the world needs something with those characteristics, and and that'southward why I similar it and work on information technology.

While we piece of work on Plasma 5.24 bugs (and yous tin can see many of them fixed beneath), we've too started to work on many improvements for Plasma 5.25 and KDE apps! Bank check information technology out:

15-Minute Bugs Resolved

Current number of bugs: 82, down from 83. Current list of bugs

Yous tin in one case again launch apps from the Application Launcher's "History" and "Frequently Used" pages (Oleg Solovyov, Plasma v.24.i)

In the Plasma Wayland session, moving a window to another virtual desktop or activity using a keyboard shortcut or the relevant Pager applet no longer leaves a semi-transparent non-interactive ghost version of it visible in its old location (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma v.24.1)

Setting a battery charge limit on your laptop no longer causes the System Tray Battery and Brightness icon to stay visible once the bombardment is considered by the kernel to exist fully charged (me: Nate Graham, Plasma five.24.i)

New Features

Kate now has an interactive path-based navigation bar that shows y'all the folder hierarchy of the currently open up document and allows y'all to switch it out for another ane (Waqar Ahmed, Kate 22.04):

Color schemes can now be optionally configured to utilise your accent color to window titlebars or fifty-fifty the entire header surface area, and the "Breeze Classic" color scheme now uses this feature (Dominic Hayes, Plasma 5.25):

Note that this behemothic blue header appearance in Breeze Low-cal is non-default; you would take to enable the new "Utilize accent color to titlebar" option for Breeze Light for make information technology employ the accent color like this. But it does show what'southward possible!

Bugfixes & Performance Improvements

Dolphin's view no longer exhibits visual bugs when zooming in and out (Eugene Popov, Dolphin 22.04)

The "Keep these changes?" dialog in Arrangement Settings' Display Configuration page is in one case again displayed properly, so you tin can actually change your display settings once again (Xuetian Weng, Plasma v.24.1)

System Settings no longer crashes when you press the Escape key on Organization Settings' Display Configuration page (Nicolas Fella, Plasma 5.24.1)

In the Plasma Wayland session, KWin no longer sometimes crashes when you elevate something from Firefox running in XWayland way to the desktop (David Redondo, Plasma 5.24.1)

In the Plasma Wayland session, borer an input field with a stylus over again causes the virtual keyboard to appear every bit expected (Aleix Political leader Gonzalez, Plasma 5.24.1)

Correct-clicking on legacy app-specific Organization Tray icons to show a context card once once again works if yous happen to not have the libappindicator library installed (Claudio Holo, Plasma 5.24.i)

In the Plasma Wayland session, the Task Manager now correctly shows which apps are running on certain systems (e.g. Gentoo systems) where information technology was broken before (John Zimmerman, Plasma 5.24.one)

Apps that inappropriately set QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland internally tin now be successfully launched from the Overview effect (Nicolas Fella, Plasma 5.24.1)

In the Plasma Wayland session, when a native Wayland app is launches with its window maximized, its titlebar "Maximize/Restore" push button now visually shows the correct country (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.24.one)

In the Plasma X11 session, toggling a window's the "Show Borders" functionality no longer makes it smaller (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma five.24.1)

Plasma now lets you set up a maximum charge level for hardware that supports setting a maximum charge level simply not a minimum charge level before starting to charge (Méven Car, Plasma 5.24.one)

KRunner's Web Shortcuts and Browser Favorites runners now work in the Overview outcome (Nicolas Fella, Plasma 5.24.i)

Title/Header text in menus no longer gets cut off in cases where it would be longer than the text of whatever of the other menu items (Albert Astals Cid, Plasma v.24.2)

In the Plasma Wayland session, fixed one of the ways that the virtual keyboard could neglect to announced as expected despite being prepare up correctly (Aleix Politico Gonzalez, Plasma 5.24.2)

In the Plasma X11 session, when yous set the Overview effect to announced when you printing the Meta key, it can no longer inappropriately exist triggered from the Lock screen (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.24.2)

Plasma no longer sometimes crashes when you copy certain text to the clipboard (David Edmundson, Frameworks 5.92)

Installing OBS Studio from Spectacle's "install a screen recorder" feature now works (Aleix Political leader Gonzalez, Frameworks five.92)

Kirigami apps that use side drawers no longer eat mouse events on the sides of the window, which means that in item, their right-well-nigh scrollbars now work properly (Tranter Madi, Frameworks 5.92)

Fixed a memory leak in KDE apps that use the Solid framework (Méven Automobile, Frameworks 5.92)

User Interface Improvements

Gwenview one time over again has a "Fit" push on its status bar (Felix Ernst, Gwenview 22.04):

The notifications that Ark sends when a compress job is finished are at present fancier and more than useful (Nicolas Fella, Ark 22.04):

Spectacle's nighttime overlay in Rectangular Region mode is now darker (me: Nate Graham, Spectacle 22.04):

The Show Desktop applet now has an indicator line that appears when the desktop is beingness shown just like the Minimize All applet has, and the Minimize All applet'due south line now touches the panel border irrespective of its internal margins (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.24.two)

Card/tile views in Cakewalk-themes GTK apps now expect much amend (Jan Blackquill, Plasma 5.25)

Audio book loudness/recording level indicators at present expect much amend (Lite Yagami, Plasma 5.25):

System Settings' Firewall page now uses a simplified dominion entry UI by default and then you don't need to know port numbers and all that mumbo-jumbo–but if y'all want to, you lot can evidence all the fiddly advanced controls (Lucas Biaggi and me: Nate Graham, Plasma five.25)

Cakewalk-themed menus in Qt and GTK apps now accept a lilliputian outer margin, which is not just pretty, but information technology also solves an aboriginal usability bug with the top particular being too piece of cake to accidentally actuate (Jan Blackquill, Plasma 5.25):

Cakewalk-themed menus in Qt apps that are taller than the screen height (OMG) now scroll vertically instead of expanding horizontally into more columns (January Blackquill, Plasma v.25). This Bugzilla ticket was old plenty to drink alcohol in many countries!

Y'all tin can now tap-and-hold on Task Director tasks to show a context menu, making their menus accessible on a touchscreen (me: Nate Graham, Plasma five.25):

And the menu items also become tall and so yous can easily affect them!

The notification shown when you effort to use a VPN whose supporting software hasn't been installed is now more than helpful and comprehensible and sticks around until you explicitly dismiss it (Nicolas Fella, Plasma five.25)

To ameliorate the discoverability of KCommandBar, every KDE app's "Help" menu at present has a "Find Action" item that will activate it when clicked (Waqar Ahmed, Frameworks v.92):

Clicking on the "Custom" accent color selection to bear witness a color picker dialog now opens the dialog showing the current accent color, if ane was already set (Yari Polla, Plasma 5.25)

…And everything else

This blog simply covers the tip of the iceberg! Tons of KDE apps whose development I don't take time to follow aren't represented here, and I as well don't mention backend refactoring, improved test coverage, and other changes that are generally not user-facing. If you're hungry for more, cheque out https://planet.kde.org, where you can notice more news from other KDE contributors.

How You Can Help

If you're a programmer, check out our xv-Minute Problems Initiative. Working on these issues makes a big difference chop-chop!

Otherwise, have a expect at https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved to observe ways to be part of a projection that actually matters. Each correspondent makes a huge difference in KDE; you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don't accept to already be a programmer, either. I wasn't when I got started. Try information technology, you'll like it! We don't bite!

Finally, consider making a revenue enhancement-deductible donation to the KDE due east.Five. foundation.

Plasma 5.24 was released a few days ago, and so far it's been the smoothest release in retentiveness. There take been a few regressions, merely fewer than other recent releases. I'm sure all of yous who accept experienced new issues will speak up in the comments, of form. 🙂 Simply overall information technology has gone quite well!

15-Minute Bugs Resolved

Current number of bugs: 83, same every bit concluding week. Current list of bugs

In the Plasma Wayland session, panels no longer sometimes randomly freeze especially right after login (Vlad Zahorodnii, as presently as your distro updates their KDE Qt patch collection to include this patch)

Closing your laptop lid when an external monitor plugged in no longer causes the computer to inappropriately go to slumber when the setting to disable this has been used (Somebody awesome, Plasma five.24)

New Features

Konsole now supports Sixel, allowing it to display .sixel images correct inside the window (Matan Ziv-Av, Konsole 22.04)

Konsole now has a new plugin that stores saved commands and pieces of text for you (Tao Guo, Konsole 22.04)

Bugfixes & Functioning Improvements

When using Kate'south feature to stash and restore unsaved changes to open files when closing the app, those changes are now really saved as expected rather than being silently destroyed if yous happen to quit the app using the "Quit" action or Ctrl+Q keyboard shortcut instead of clicking on the window's close button (Waqar Ahmed, Kate 21.12.3)

Canceling an in-progress annal task now automatically deletes the temporary file that was being created (Méven Automobile, Ark 22.04)

Konsole's text re-menses feature at present works for lines of text that have no whitespace or newline characters at all (Luis Javier Merino Morán, Konsole 22.04)

System Settings no longer crashes when the active color scheme doesn't exist on disk for some reason; now information technology falls dorsum to Breeze Light (the default colour scheme) and doesn't crash (Nicolas Fella, Plasma 5.24.ane)

In the Plasma Wayland session, Plasma no longer always crashes when yous screencast in certain circumstances (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.24.one)

In the Plasma Wayland session, using custom splash screens once more works (Linus Dierheimer, Plasma five.24.1)

The Scale outcome is in one case once more configurable (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma 5.24.ane)

Links to Organization Settings pages added to the desktop using the "Add to Desktop" context menu item in Get-go once again really appear on the Desktop as expected (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma v.24.ane)

Certain types of big buttons with text no longer make their text half-invisible when they're focused with the keyboard (Ingo Klöcker, Plasma v.24.1)

Info Center's "Devices" page once once again works as expected if the control-line lspci program lives in /sbin/, /usr/sbin, or /usr/local/sbin on your computer (Fabian Vogt, Plasma 5.24.1)

Dragging desktop files over a Sticky Note applet no longer makes the files temporarily disappear (Severin von Wnuck, Plasma 5.24.1)

In the Plasma X11 session, the cursor no longer disappears while using the "Zoom" issue (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.24.1)

The Fall Apart effect once once more works and no longer interacts strangely with the Overview consequence (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.24.1)

In the Plasma Wayland session, stock-still i fashion that tooltips could exist mis-positioned (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.24.one)

The Overview event no longer inappropriately shows minimized windows in the desktop thumbnails for moment before immediately hiding them again (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.24.1)

When using certain 3rd-party window decoration themes, quick-tiling a maximized window no longer unexpectedly de-maximizes the window instead of quick-tiling it (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma v.24.1)

System Settings is now faster to launch, especially when using the legacy Icons View mode (Fushan Wen, Plasma v.24.i)

Dolphin no longer crashes when you close its "Create New File" file dialog in a remote location (Nicolas Fella, Frameworks 5.92)

Fixed a retention leak when canceling in-process motility/copy annal (etc) jobs (David Faure, Frameworks 5.92)

Scrollable views with text in QtQuick-based software no longer showroom visual glitches with text being cut off or squished at the height or bottom when the view is scrolled very slowly a pixel at a fourth dimension (Noah Davis, Frameworks 5.92)

Font changes now take effect instantly in QtQuick-based apps (Nicolas Fella, Frameworks 5.92)

Buttons in System Tray applets that open Info Middle pages now piece of work if you don't happen to accept Info Center installed; they instead open the requested page in a separate window (me: Nate Graham, Frameworks 5.92)

All QtQuick-based apps now use slightly fewer CPU resources (Aleix Politico Gonzalez, Frameworks 5.92)

User Interface Improvements

When an app is installed more than one time from different sources (e.g. one version from distro repos, and another version from Flatpak), The context menu for that app in Get-go no longer has multiple entries saying, "Uninstall or manage add-ons" (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma v.24.i)

Searching for apps that are not yet installed no longer returns indistinguishable entries for matched apps that are available from multiple sources (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma five.24.1)

In the Overview effect, apps' selection highlight furnishings at present disappear when you first to drag them (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.24.ane)

System Settings' Quick Settings page has received some UI polish for the alignment and spacing of its elements and the clarity of its labels (me: Nate Graham, Plasma five.25):

Kate, KDevelop, and other KTextEditor-based apps now do a much meliorate job of differentiating files opened in tabs that have the same filename (Waqar Ahmed, Frameworks 5.92):

Dragging a file or folder over an item in the Places panel now causes that location to be opened and displayed in the chief view and then you lot can drag the thing into a folder inside it. And if the Places panel item you lot dragged over was an unmounted deejay, information technology is now automatically mounted offset! (Kai Uwe Broulik, Frameworks five.92)

Errors in the open up/relieve dialogs are now shown inline as in Dolphin, rather than with a dissever dialog window (Kai Uwe Broulik, Frameworks five.92)

…And everything else

Keep in mind that this blog merely covers the tip of the iceberg! Tons of KDE apps whose development I don't accept time to follow aren't represented here, and I also don't mention backend refactoring, improved test coverage, and other changes that are generally not user-facing. If you're hungry for more, check out https://planet.kde.org/, where you can find blog posts by other KDE contributors detailing the piece of work they're doing.

How You Can Aid

If yous're a developer, check out our 15-Minute Problems Initiative. Working on these bug makes a big divergence apace!

Otherwise, accept a look at https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved to detect ways to be part of a projection that actually matters. Each correspondent makes a huge difference in KDE; y'all are not a number or a cog in a motorcar! You don't have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn't when I got started. Endeavour it, you lot'll like it! We don't seize with teeth!

Finally, consider making a tax-deductible donation to the KDE east.5. foundation.

Nosotros have put the finishing touches on Plasma v.24 and started to piece of work on 5.25 stuff, with two big improvements already merged: keyboard navigation for Panels, and the start of Discover'south UI redesign! Check those out below:

fifteen-Minute Bugs Resolved

Current number of bugs: 83, aforementioned every bit final calendar week. Current list of bugs

Plasma, Discover, and many other apps no longer sometimes always crash on launch when y'all've turned on User Feedback sharing (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, KUserFeedback 1.1.0)

Changing user properties in the Arrangement Settings' accounts page one time over again works if you happen to have version 22.04.64 or newer of the AccountsService package (January Blackquill, Plasma five.24)

Discover no longer sometimes randomly freezes when you're looking at an app's details (Aleix Politico Gonzalez, Plasma 5.24.1)

Other Bugfixes & Performance Improvements

Gwenview is one time once more able to open RAW files, at the cost of sometimes existence unable to open files that have the incorrect filename extension. A patch that stock-still that but broke RAW support was reverted (me: Nate Graham, Gwenview 22.12.ii)

Dolphin no longer crashes when you abolish an archiving job in the middle that was initiated from one of Dolphin's context card "Compress" items (Méven Car, Ark 21.12.3)

When browsing an FTP server in Dolphin, opening files one time again opens them in the correct app rather than your web browser (Nicolas Fella, Dolphin 21.12.three)

In the Plasma Wayland session, Kate no longer flashes when you lot hit Ctrl+South to save your changes (Christoph Cullmann, Kate 22.04)

The NOAA Picture of the 24-hour interval wallpaper now works again (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.24)

In the Plasma Wayland session, dragging-and-dropping various things to XWayland apps no longer sometimes makes them stop accepting clicks until the system is restarted (David Redondo, Plasma 5.24)

Spectacle's Rectangular Region overlay now appears in a higher place all full screen windows, non only some of them (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.24)

Network and System information display in System Monitor now e'er works every time you open it after logging in, not just sometimes only working the first fourth dimension you open information technology (Arjen Hiemstra, Plasma v.24)

System Monitor bar chart bars no longer disappear when you brand the chart actually narrow (Arjen Hiemstra, Plasma five.24)

When dragging-and-dropping items onto the desktop, now all of them are placed at the dragged location, rather than only 1 of them beingness placed there there and all the other ones being placed after other icons (Severin Von Wnuck, Plasma 5.24)

Detect no longer crashes when you install or uninstall more than i Flatpak apps at once (Aleix Politician Gonzalez, Plasma v.24)

Discover now shows the correct size for very very large packages (Jonas Knarbakk, Discover 5.24)

In the Plasma X11 session, using 30-bit colour now works (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 5.24)

The System Tray's popup now has the correct background color when the widget is located on the desktop rather than on a panel (Ivan Tkachenko, Plasma 5.24.1)

System Monitor CPU sensors can no longer e'er briefly display negative values (Arjen Hiemstra, Plasma five.24.1)

Discover'southward screenshots popup is no longer overlapped by the sidebar later you resize the window to be small and and then big again (Ismael Asensio, Plasma 5.24.i)

The Battery & Brightness applet no longer inappropriately shows the "Low Battery" icon when the merely batteries present are from external wireless devices with an adequate accuse level (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.25)

KIO no longer inappropriately tries and fails to handle non-file-based URLs registered to apps (e.grand. tg:// for Telegram or mailto:// for your email customer) when the apps annunciate that they accept URLs (Nicolas Fella, Frameworks 5.91)

KWin's keyboard shortcuts (e.chiliad. Alt+Tab) no longer sometimes break after KWin is restarted (Vlad Zahorodnii, Frameworks 5.91)

QtQuick-based apps are now slightly faster to load and run simply in a full general sense (Nicolas Fella, Frameworks 5.91)

When using a dark color scheme, the Breeze icon for the KDE Plasma logo no longer partially disappears at large sizes (Gabriel Karlsson, Frameworks 5.91)

Fixed a couple of inconsistencies and glitches in various Breeze binder and mimetype icons (Gabriel Karlsson, Frameworks 5.91)

User Interface Improvements

You can now elevate tabs from 1 Kate to another (Waqar Ahmed, Kate 22.04)

Okular'southward Bookmarks sidebar folio now has an improved UI, with buttons that take text and an "Add Bookmark" context menu particular (me: Nate Graham, Okular 22.04):

Dolphin's Information Panel now shows "Dimensions" by default instead of split "Epitome width" and "Image height" fields (Méven Automobile, Dolphin 22.04)

When compressing multiple files from Dolphin'southward context menu, the menu now tells you lot the proper name of the resulting archive (Fushan Wen, Ark 22.04)

You lot tin now find Konsole by searching for "cmd" or "command prompt" (Someone going past the pseudonym "M B", Konsole 22.04)

When searching for Organization Settings pages, exact championship matches are now weighted much more heavily (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma v.24)

You can no longer use Find to uninstall itself (me: Nate Graham, Plasma five.24)

Discover's App folio has been redesigned for greater aesthetics and usability (me: Nate Graham and Manuel Jésus de la Fuente, Plasma 5.25):

You can now use the new default Meta+Alt+P shortcut to cycle keyboard focus between your panels and activate applets with the Keyboard (Marco Martin, Plasma v.25)

The clipboard applet'due south settings window is now much more comprehensible (Jonathan Marten, Plasma 5.25)

Searching for "switch user" no longer finds an detail named "New Session"; it is now called "Switch User", as you lot would expect (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma 5.25)

…And everything else

Go along in mind that this web log simply covers the tip of the iceberg! Tons of KDE apps whose evolution I don't have fourth dimension to follow aren't represented here, and I also don't mention backend refactoring, improved test coverage, and other changes that are generally not user-facing. If you're hungry for more, cheque out https://planet.kde.org/, where yous can detect blog posts by other KDE contributors detailing the work they're doing.

How You Can Assistance

If you're a developer, check out our 15-Infinitesimal Bug Initiative. Working on these issues makes a big difference quickly!

Otherwise, take a look at https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved to observe ways to be part of a project that actually matters. Each contributor makes a huge deviation in KDE; you are non a number or a cog in a machine! You don't have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn't when I got started. Effort information technology, you'll similar it! We don't bite!

Finally, consider making a taxation-deductible donation to the KDE e.V. foundation.

Plasma 5.24 is almost set up!

I mentioned concluding week that I haven't been posting most fixes for regressions in 5.24 that never got released, considering there would be besides many. Nonetheless people have been working very difficult on this, and we're down to but seven, with 2 of them having open merge requests! Working on those is appreciated, every bit it helps improve the stability of the final release in a week and a half.

15-Minute Bugs Resolved

Current number of bugs: 83, down from 87. Current list of bugs

Later on waking up the system, the desktop is no longer sometimes shown for a moment before the lock screen appears (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.25)

New Features

Konsole now lets you lot automatically switch to a different contour when yous connect to a specific remote server using SSH (Tomaz Canabrava, Konsole 22.04):

Dolphin at present optionally lets you see image'south dimensions below their icons in icon view (Kai Uwe Broulik, Dolphin 22.04):

Bugfixes & Performance Improvements

Fixed a wide variety of bug with the metadata and lyrics in Elisa's Now Playing view failing to announced or update properly (Yerrey Dev, Elisa 22.04)

Gwenview now launches a bit faster, peculiarly when there are a lot of remote mounts (Nicolas Fella, Gwenview 22.04)

Plasma no longer sometimes crashes on login when certain apps that display Arrangement Tray items launch automatically (Konrad Materka, Plasma 5.24)

In the Plasma Wayland session, KWin no longer sometimes crashes when dragging screenshots from Spectacle to XWayland apps (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.24)

In the Plasma Wayland session, KWin no longer crashes when you lot unplug an external monitor that was in "only utilise external monitor" mode (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 5.24)

In the Plasma Wayland session, when an app is started in fullscreen mode and then made windowed, it will now be placed in a location that respects the electric current window placement manner, rather than always appearing in the top-left corner of the screen (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma five.24)

In the Plasma Wayland session, screencasting no longer causes the cursor to be visually clipped (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.24)

In the Plasma Wayland session, when yous unplug and re-plug an external screen, XWayland apps that desire to launch on the master screen (such equally many games) no longer to get dislocated and open on the wrong screen (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma five.24)

In the Plasma Wayland session, cursor app launch feedback effects at present respect the global timeout value for information technology that you can gear up in the Organisation Settings Launch Feedback page (David Redondo, Plasma 5.24)

Keyboard navigation betwixt widgets in the Widget Explorer sidebar at present works that manner you would await information technology to (Noah Davis, Plasma 5.24)

Disk read/write sensors in System Monitor widgets and the app of the same name no longer report bogus values the starting time time they update (Arjen Hiemstra, Plasma 5.24)

Shrinking System Monitor's window to a very pocket-size size now causes text to properly elide instead of overflow (Arjen Hiemstra, Plasma 5.24)

System Monitor widgets tin at present be dragged using touch while in Edit Mode (Marco Martin, Plasma 5.24)

Custom icons that utilize SVG images referred to past their path rather than their name again appear correctly on folders and apps on the desktop (Fushan Wen, Frameworks 5.91)

Changing any of the standard shortcuts (e.g. for Copy or Paste) on System Settings' Shortcuts folio at present takes consequence instantly, rather than making y'all restart get-go (David Redondo, Frameworks 5.91)

KDE apps like Dolphin that scan for network mounts and disks when launched at present launch more quickly when y'all have a lot of Snap apps installed or ISO images mounted (Kai Uwe Broulik, Frameworks 5.91)

This isn't KDE software, but it affected a lot of our users, and then I'm listing it here anyway: Firefox no longer constantly asks to be fabricated the default browser on launch when it's being run with the GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 surroundings variable (as some distros do by default) to brand it use KDE file dialogs instead of GNOME file dialogs (Emilio Cobos Álvarez and Robert Mader, Firefox 98)

User Interface Improvements

The Properties dialog no longer shows the Details tab when everything it contains is already visible on the General tab (Kai Uwe Broulik, Dolphin 22.04)

Dolphin's shortcuts configuration window at present includes shortcuts from Konsole that will exist used in the embedded final view, so you lot can re-assign them if you'd similar (Stephan Sahm, Dolphin 22.04)

Filelight can now exist found by searching for a variety of mutual keywords similar "usage" and "disk space" (Nikolai Weitkemper, Filelight 22.04)

KRunner now returns amend search results for very brusk search strings of simply ane or two letters (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma 5.24)

Y'all can now find KMenuEdit in app launchers, KRunner, and Discover (me: Nate Graham, Plasma v.25):

Card items in QtWidgets-based apps now too get taller when in Tablet Style, only similar menu items in QtQuick apps! However Different those, QtWidgets apps will accept to be restarted first due to technical limitations (January Blackquill, Plasma five.25)

Task Director tooltip window thumbnails now smoothly fade in instead of actualization abruptly (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.25)

Discover now provides an indication of the number of search results and the number of items in the currently viewed category (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.25):

Spacing between System Tray icons is now configurable, and automatically switches to its widest setting when in Tablet Mode (me: Nate Graham, Plasma five.25)

System Settings' Brandish Configuration page now calls your device'due south built-in screen a "Congenital-in Screen", rather than bold it is a laptop and calling it a "Laptop Screen" (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.25)

…And everything else

Keep in heed that this web log but covers the tip of the iceberg! Tons of KDE apps whose development I don't take time to follow aren't represented here, and I also don't mention backend refactoring, improved exam coverage, and other changes that are by and large non user-facing. If you're hungry for more, cheque out https://planet.kde.org/, where you lot can find blog posts by other KDE contributors detailing the work they're doing.

How You Can Help

If you're a developer, bank check out the listing of remaining Plasma 5.24 regressions, or our 15-Minute Bug Initiative. Working on these bug makes a large difference quickly!

Otherwise, have a look at https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved to discover means to be role of a project that really matters. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE; yous are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don't have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn't when I got started. Try it, yous'll similar information technology! We don't bite!

Finally, consider making a tax-deductible donation to the KDE e.V. foundation.