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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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The Worst American Poet
Julia Moore, "the Sweet Singer of Michigan" (1847-1920) was so bad that
Mark Twain said her first book gave him joy for 20 years.
Her verse was mainly concerned with violent death -- the great fire
of Chicago and the yellow fever epidemic proved natural subjects for her pen.
Whether death was by drowning, by fits or by runaway sleigh, the
formula was the same:
Have you heard of the dreadful fate
Of Mr. P. P. Bliss and wife?
Of their death I will relate,
And also others lost their life
(in the) Ashbula Bridge disaster,
Where so many people died.
Even if you started out reasonably healthy in one of Julia's poems,
the chances are that after a few stanzas you would be at the bottom of a
river or struck by lightning. A critic of the day said she was "worse than
a Gatling gun" and in one slim volume counted 21 killed and 9 wounded.
Incredibly, some newspapers were critical of her work, even
suggesting that the sweet singer was "semi-literate". Her reply was
forthright: "The Editors that has spoken in this scandalous manner have went
beyond reason." She added that "literary work is very difficult to do".
-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"