The Plasma team’s latest round of work focuses on polishing Plasma 6.8: most reported regressions have been fixed, allowing developers to tackle older problems as well as usability and performance improvements. Changes planned for Plasma 6.8.2 and 6.8.3 include synchronizing the sleep-blocking switch across Power & Battery widgets, preventing malformed third-party shell packages from causing crash loops, and stopping long window titles from crowding other panel widgets. Other refinements improve launcher and pager behavior, correct notification placement and tooltip styling, restore per-application keyboard-layout memory on Wayland, and fix issues affecting Discover updates, remote desktop, brightness after wake, and cloned panels.
Plasma 6.9 adds further widget and system-settings polish, including a better Timer widget, working full-screen mode in the Web Browser widget, and app links for locally installed Flatpaks. It also fixes task-manager thumbnails, desktop selection behavior, and several display glitches. Performance work addresses a game slowdown, reduces the cost of KWin’s zoom upscaling, and prevents stale desktop-position data from bloating configuration files and slowing Plasma. KRunner can again search bookmarks in modern Firefox installations that are not Flatpaks. KDE Frameworks 6.32 brings two notable file-operation improvements: accurate progress indicators for transfers to external disks and substantially faster transfers over locally mounted network shares. The update also invites users to contribute time, skills, or donations.
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