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

([KDE] 14 Minutes Ago Plasma 6.3)


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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New Linux Companies Hope To Get Rich Quick (#4)

The buzz surrounding Linux and Open Source during 1999 has produced a
large number of billionnaires. However, people who weren't employed by Red
Hat or VA Linux, or who didn't receive The Letter, are still poor. The
visionaries at The IPO Factory want to change all that.

As the name suggests, this company helps other businesses get off the
ground, secure investments from Venture Capitalists, and eventually hold
an IPO that exits the stratosphere. "You can think of us as meta-VCs," the
IPO Factory's founder said. "You provide the idea... and we do the rest.
If your company doesn't hold a successful IPO, you get your money back,
guaranteed!" He added quickly, "Of course, if you do undergo a billion
dollar IPO, we get to keep 25% of your stock."

The company's first customer, LinuxOne, has been a failure. "From now on
we're only going to service clients that actually have a viable product,"
an IPO Factory salesperson admitted. "Oh, and we've learned our lesson:
it's not a good idea to cut-and-paste large sections from Red Hat's S-1
filing."