KDE Plasma 6.1 Is Looking To Be A "Good One"
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KDE Plasma 6.1 Coming Soon)
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The KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop is due for release in a little more than one week. Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham thinks this is going to be a "good one" with a lot of new features, better performance, and more.
Nate Graham is out with his usual KDE weekly development summary. Some of the recent highlights in the KDE world include:
- The System Monitor data backend can now scrape CPU / memory / I/O data from within /proc/pressure .
- A warning in the settings dialog when using a NVIDIA GPU on X11 with a floating panel and adaptive panel transparency there can be lag when windows move or are resized, due to a NVIDIA driver bug.
- The custom accent color feature now does a better job of picking colors for links that will be readable.
- Support for WebAuth for SAML-based authentication with the Plasma Networks widget.
- PLasma 6.1 will fix a KWin crash that could happen when the system wakes from sleep with "weird screens that turn on strangely."
- Improved performance of "basically everything" where the ~/.cache/ folder is located on a slow disk like a hard drive.
- Re-enabled hardware-accelerated cursor support for Intel GPUs.
- Other KWin and Plasma crash fixes.
More details on the recent KDE changes via [1]Nate Graham's blog . Look for Plasma 6.1 to be released as stable around 18 June.
[1] https://pointieststick.com/2024/06/07/these-past-two-weeks-in-kde-massive-stability-work-for-plasma-6-1/
Nate Graham is out with his usual KDE weekly development summary. Some of the recent highlights in the KDE world include:
- The System Monitor data backend can now scrape CPU / memory / I/O data from within /proc/pressure .
- A warning in the settings dialog when using a NVIDIA GPU on X11 with a floating panel and adaptive panel transparency there can be lag when windows move or are resized, due to a NVIDIA driver bug.
- The custom accent color feature now does a better job of picking colors for links that will be readable.
- Support for WebAuth for SAML-based authentication with the Plasma Networks widget.
- PLasma 6.1 will fix a KWin crash that could happen when the system wakes from sleep with "weird screens that turn on strangely."
- Improved performance of "basically everything" where the ~/.cache/ folder is located on a slow disk like a hard drive.
- Re-enabled hardware-accelerated cursor support for Intel GPUs.
- Other KWin and Plasma crash fixes.
More details on the recent KDE changes via [1]Nate Graham's blog . Look for Plasma 6.1 to be released as stable around 18 June.
[1] https://pointieststick.com/2024/06/07/these-past-two-weeks-in-kde-massive-stability-work-for-plasma-6-1/
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