KDE Plasma 6.6 Shaving Off 100MB Of Memory Use, Fixing DrKonqi Crash Reporter Crashing
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KDE developers were off to a busy start for the month of November. A lot of feature activity continues happening for Plasma 6.6 while a lot of bug fixing is still going on for Plasma 6.5 and related KDE components.
KDE developer Nate Graham continues doing a great job with the weekly Plasma development summaries via This Week in Plasma. With that, Plasma 6.6 continues taking shape with some of the KDE changes for this week including:
- Plasma 6.6 is bringing the ability to limit virtual desktops to only the primary screen. This option is coming via a new Plasma add-on KWin script so allow only virtual desktops on the primary screen while allowing windows on secondary screens to always stay visible.
- Plasma 6.6's network widget adds a button for connecting to a network using a QR code.
- DrKonqi crash reporting now notices crashes for non-KDE applications.
- KDE Frameworks 6.20 also is bringing a fix where the DrKonqi crash reporter could itself crash. That could happen when clicking on the "Details" button of a notification about something else crashing.
- Support for the MHC2 tag used in ICC profiles by Microsoft Windows. In turn this should help KWin produce identical color effects to Windows. This is coming for Plasma 6.5.3.
- Hot-corner effects can now be triggered for all screens rather than just the corner of one screen.
- More crash fixes coming for Plasma 6.5.3.
- Plasma 6.6 is adding another page to the HDR calibration wizard for determining the maximum full-screen average luminance.
- Plasma 6.5.3 will improve the visual smoothness when switching modes on multi-monitor setups with VRR-capable screens.
- Plasma 6.6 will reduce Plasma's memory usage by over 100MB by being smarter about unloading wallpaper images that aren't needed anymore.
- Improved the robustness of drag-and-drop between XWayland windows and native Wayland windows.
More details on these many KDE Plasma changes for the first week of November via [1]Nate Graham's blog for This Week in Plasma.
[1] https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/08/this-week-in-plasma-virtual-desktops-only-on-the-primary-screen/
KDE developer Nate Graham continues doing a great job with the weekly Plasma development summaries via This Week in Plasma. With that, Plasma 6.6 continues taking shape with some of the KDE changes for this week including:
- Plasma 6.6 is bringing the ability to limit virtual desktops to only the primary screen. This option is coming via a new Plasma add-on KWin script so allow only virtual desktops on the primary screen while allowing windows on secondary screens to always stay visible.
- Plasma 6.6's network widget adds a button for connecting to a network using a QR code.
- DrKonqi crash reporting now notices crashes for non-KDE applications.
- KDE Frameworks 6.20 also is bringing a fix where the DrKonqi crash reporter could itself crash. That could happen when clicking on the "Details" button of a notification about something else crashing.
- Support for the MHC2 tag used in ICC profiles by Microsoft Windows. In turn this should help KWin produce identical color effects to Windows. This is coming for Plasma 6.5.3.
- Hot-corner effects can now be triggered for all screens rather than just the corner of one screen.
- More crash fixes coming for Plasma 6.5.3.
- Plasma 6.6 is adding another page to the HDR calibration wizard for determining the maximum full-screen average luminance.
- Plasma 6.5.3 will improve the visual smoothness when switching modes on multi-monitor setups with VRR-capable screens.
- Plasma 6.6 will reduce Plasma's memory usage by over 100MB by being smarter about unloading wallpaper images that aren't needed anymore.
- Improved the robustness of drag-and-drop between XWayland windows and native Wayland windows.
More details on these many KDE Plasma changes for the first week of November via [1]Nate Graham's blog for This Week in Plasma.
[1] https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/08/this-week-in-plasma-virtual-desktops-only-on-the-primary-screen/