KDE Developers Prepare More Wayland Improvements For Plasma 6.4
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As we near the end of April, KDE developers remain quite busy working on more enhancements for the Plasma 6.4 desktop while many of them were also meeting this week in Graz, Austria for further development and planning.
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his latest weekly recap of all the interesting KDE Plasma changes for the week. Some of this week's highlights include:
- With the upcoming Plasma 6.4, newly-installed applications are now visually highlighted within the Kickoff application launcher.
- Wayland support for relative mode when using a drawing tablet stylus.
- An on-screen display in Plasma 6.4 for when your microphone is muted and an application is trying to access it.
- A new "Animations" page for System Settings with Plasma 6.4.
- The Plasma 6.3.5 point release will fix a KWin crash when disconnecting a laptop from certain docking stations.
- Plasma 6.3.5 will also fix a KWin issue where it would schedule constant screen repaints when the screen is dimmed.
- The accessibility feature to use numberpad buttons to move the pointer now works under Wayland.
- KWin with Plasma 6.4 will use the stable version of the Wayland ext-data-control protocol.
- KMenuEdit now allows configuring apps to always run on the discrete graphics processor if available and desired.
More details on these changes for the week via [1]This Week in Plasma .
[1] https://blogs.kde.org/2025/04/25/this-week-in-plasma-multiple-major-wayland-and-ui-features/
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his latest weekly recap of all the interesting KDE Plasma changes for the week. Some of this week's highlights include:
- With the upcoming Plasma 6.4, newly-installed applications are now visually highlighted within the Kickoff application launcher.
- Wayland support for relative mode when using a drawing tablet stylus.
- An on-screen display in Plasma 6.4 for when your microphone is muted and an application is trying to access it.
- A new "Animations" page for System Settings with Plasma 6.4.
- The Plasma 6.3.5 point release will fix a KWin crash when disconnecting a laptop from certain docking stations.
- Plasma 6.3.5 will also fix a KWin issue where it would schedule constant screen repaints when the screen is dimmed.
- The accessibility feature to use numberpad buttons to move the pointer now works under Wayland.
- KWin with Plasma 6.4 will use the stable version of the Wayland ext-data-control protocol.
- KMenuEdit now allows configuring apps to always run on the discrete graphics processor if available and desired.
More details on these changes for the week via [1]This Week in Plasma .
[1] https://blogs.kde.org/2025/04/25/this-week-in-plasma-multiple-major-wayland-and-ui-features/
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