Saturday, 19 September 2026
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week, Plasma folks shifted to bug-fixing and polishing work for Plasma 6.8. As of the time of writing, there are only four open regression reports for Plasma 6.8, which means either the release is already amazing, or people aren’t testing the beta release enough! You know what you need to do. :)
Also, notice that we have bug fixes going into four concurrent Plasma releases right now. FOUR! That’s a lot of release management, but it seems like the Plasma team is up to the task!
Notable UI improvements
Plasma 6.7.6
System Settings’ Wi-Fi & Networking page now fully fits within the window at its default and minimum size. (Marco Martin, KDE Bugzilla #443553)
Plasma 6.8
On KWin’s Overview effect, highlights for adjacent virtual desktops no longer touch. (Nate Graham, KDE Bugzilla #523656)
Kup’s backup progress notifications now show the elapsed time, and average speed information is now more accurate. (Méven Car, kup MR #62)
Did another few rounds of visual polish on KDE’s desktop portal dialogs to increase their information density and visual consistency. (David Edmundson and Oliver Beard, xdg-desktop-portal-kde MR #628 and xdg-desktop-portal-kde MR #630)
Plasma 6.9
Renaming a file or folder on the desktop now shows all the standard warnings and confirmations when necessary. (Ramil Nurmanov, plasma-desktop MR #3684)
The Weather Report widget now warns you when the weather provider you’ve chosen might report less data than you would expect. (Ismael Asensio, kdeplasma-addons #1127)
In the Clipboard widget, buttons to invoke actions now only appear for entries that have actions associated with them. (Tomáš Hnyk, KDE Bugzilla #440727)
On System Settings’ Wi-Fi & Networking page, the “speed” setting has been renamed to “speed limit” to clarify its purpose. (Fernando Marcelino Muniz, KDE Bugzilla #523099)
Notable bug fixes
PulseAudioQt 1.9.0
Fixed a very odd issue whereby multiple audio devices could end up in a “selected” state, making it unclear which device was actually the default one, and impossible to change it. (Harald Sitter, KDE Bugzilla #500968)
Plasma 6.6.7
Fixed a bug that could make the login screen fail to appear if no screens were present early in the boot process, and connected later. (Oliver Beard, KDE Bugzilla #520720)
Fixed a bug that could occasionally make Plasma crash on login, seemingly randomly. (David Edmundson, plasma-workspace MR #7042)
Fixed an old bug that could make Plasma crash seemingly randomly when something made a System Tray item animate in just the right way at just the right time. (David Edmundson, KDE Bugzilla #487699)
Fixed a recent regression that de-synchronized the brightness level shown in the System Tray widget and the brightness OSD. (Christoph Wolk, KDE Bugzilla #523281)
Transition times for the Night Light feature are now shown correctly in the Brightness & Color widget when Night Light is configured to be always on. (Vlad Zahorodnii, powerdevil MR #678)
Plasma 6.7.6
Fixed a bug that could occasionally make KWin crash when you returned to a game using Alt+Tab. (Vlad Zahorodnii, KDE Bugzilla #510116)
Fixed a focus-related regression with Wine windows. (Vlad Zahorodnii, KDE Bugzilla #525590)
The Clipboard widget no longer disappears from the System Tray when its panel is over 100px thick. (Tomáš Hnyk, plasma-workspace MR #7048)
Plasma 6.8
Fixed a bug that could sometimes make KWin crash when interacting with titlebar buttons in very specific ways. (Vlad Zahorodnii, kwin MR #9926)
Fixed a very weird bug that could make Plasma hang on login when the computer was connected to a monitor with a non-standard VCP range, such as the Samsung Odyssey G60SF. (Marco Martin, KDE Bugzilla #525216)
Deleting three or more items at a time from the Menu Editor app no longer makes it crash. (David Edmundson, KDE Bugzilla #525598)
Unit conversions in KRunner-powered searches now work in French. (Tobias Fella, KDE Bugzilla #510873)
Plasma 6.9
When Plasma Browser Integration sends a notification about files downloaded using a Firefox-based browser packaged as a Flatpak, the file path that it shows is no longer garbled. (Bharadwaj Raju, KDE Bugzilla #524384)
Made Plasma Browser Integration more robust at exporting album art from a compatible browser to the Media Player widget. (Takashi Kashiwagi, KDE Bugzilla #514788)
Fixed a subtle incompatibility between Plasma’s Edit Mode and the popular Conky system monitoring widgets. (力文 胡, KDE Bugzilla #525792)
Notable in performance & technical
Plasma 6.8
Plasma no longer writes to a cache file every single time it displays a notification. (ValdikSS, KDE Bugzilla #523805)
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