KDE's KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7
([KDE] 6 Hours Ago
Plasma 6.7 Features)
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KDE Plasma developers continue working on new features for Plasma 6.7 while continuing to land more fixes and hardening for the current Plasma 6.6 stable series.
This Week in Plasma is out with its newest issue for highlighting all the interesting developments of the week. This week some of the most notable Plasma 6.7 changes included:
- With Plasma 6.7 for Breeze-themed menus throughout the KDE software ecosystem, they will now visually change when clicked:
"When clicking elements, mark them selected (sunken) with opaque background color.
This brings the behavior closer to ItemDelegate in QtQuick styles"
- Various tooltips for Plasma 6.7 are also now following the styling of the active Plasma theme as expected.
- Synchronizing settings to the Plasma Login Manager will now include the current set of keyboard layouts.
- Plasma 6.6.4 is now better hardened against crashing when trying to load a broken widget.
- Also for Plasma 6.6.4, KWin is better hardened against XWayland apps being incorrectly sized when configuration files have inappropriate scale values.
- Continued work toward [1]KWin Vulkan support .
- Plasma 6.7 merged [2]xx-fractional-scale-v2 Wayland support .
More details on these enhancements via [3]This Week in Plasma .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Vulkan-First-Step
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/xx-fractional-scale-v2-MR-KWin
[3] https://blogs.kde.org/2026/04/04/this-week-in-plasma-ui-and-stability-improvements/
This Week in Plasma is out with its newest issue for highlighting all the interesting developments of the week. This week some of the most notable Plasma 6.7 changes included:
- With Plasma 6.7 for Breeze-themed menus throughout the KDE software ecosystem, they will now visually change when clicked:
"When clicking elements, mark them selected (sunken) with opaque background color.
This brings the behavior closer to ItemDelegate in QtQuick styles"
- Various tooltips for Plasma 6.7 are also now following the styling of the active Plasma theme as expected.
- Synchronizing settings to the Plasma Login Manager will now include the current set of keyboard layouts.
- Plasma 6.6.4 is now better hardened against crashing when trying to load a broken widget.
- Also for Plasma 6.6.4, KWin is better hardened against XWayland apps being incorrectly sized when configuration files have inappropriate scale values.
- Continued work toward [1]KWin Vulkan support .
- Plasma 6.7 merged [2]xx-fractional-scale-v2 Wayland support .
More details on these enhancements via [3]This Week in Plasma .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Vulkan-First-Step
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/xx-fractional-scale-v2-MR-KWin
[3] https://blogs.kde.org/2026/04/04/this-week-in-plasma-ui-and-stability-improvements/