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KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivers Much Better Fractional Scaling, Clipboard Using SQLite

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KDE developers continue to be quite busy ahead of the holidays to pack more features into the upcoming [1]Plasma 6.3 desktop release.

Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his newest weekly blog post that provides a status update on all of the changes going into the Plasma desktop code. Some of the highlights for this week include:

- KDE now has better fractional scaling support. This improved fractional scaling support should yield "a lot less" blurriness, no more gaps between windows and their shadows, and all-around be better than the prior fractional scaling code for KDE. This will be found with the upcoming Plasma 6.3 release.

- KWin in Plasma 6.3 will offer an option to prefer screen color accuracy at the expense of system performance.

- The feature to maximize a window horizontally or vertically by double-clicking on one of its edges can now be disabled if so desired.

- Plasma panels after log-in will now appear on screen only after their contents are fully-loaded.

- Plasma 6.3's clipboard will now use a standard SQLite database rather than its own internal custom format. Using SQLite should yield better memory efficiency and reliability.

- Many bug fixes.

More details on all of these exciting KDE changes for the week via [2]blogs.kde.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Plasma+6.3

[2] https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/14/this-week-in-plasma-better-fractional-scaling/



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