This Week in Plasma: Vietnamese lunar calendar and rounder highlights
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week, in addition to the typical post-Plasma-release bug-fix spree, folks started working on UI improvements and features. Two notable examples are highlighted in the title, and found below:
Notable new features
Plasma 6.7
Added the Vietnamese lunar calendar to the list of “alternate calendars” available in the Digital Clock widget. (Trần Nam Tuấn, kdeplasma-addons MR #1015)
Refreshed the OpenVPN settings UI to include loads of new settings offered by the underlying system. (David Edmundson, plasma-nm MR #517)
Notable UI improvements
Plasma 6.6.1
Improved the appearance of the large digits in the clock on the login and lock screens. (Nate Graham, KDE Bugzilla #516314)
Plasma 6.6.2
The “caret tracking” accessibility feature now respects whatever tracking mode you’ve set in the zoom effect, rather than always using “proportional”. (Ritchie Frodomar, KDE Bugzilla #516435)
Changing the “Show virtual [network] connections” setting no longer requires restarting Plasma or the computer to take effect. (Arjen Hiemstra, KDE Bugzilla #516091)
Deleting a widget with a pinned-open popup now closes the popup immediately, rather than after dismissing the “Undo deleting this widget?” notification. (Tobias Fella, KDE Bugzilla #470812)
Plasma 6.7
Rolled out the beginnings of a new rounded style for selection highlights in Breeze-themed QtWidgets-based apps, like Dolphin, Okular, and KMail. This brings them the style we’ve been using for years for list highlights in QtQuick-based apps and menu items everywhere, and paves the way for all of them to be consistently styled from a central location by the upcoming Union styling system. (Akseli Lahtinen and Marco Martin, breeze MR #583)
Marking an app as a favorite in the Kickoff application launcher widget now flashes the “Favorites” category, giving you a hint that it worked and where the new favorite can be found. (Kai Uwe Broulik, plasma-desktop MR #3565)
On System Settings’ Network Connections page, merged the two “Wi-Fi” and “Wi-Fi Security” tabs into one. (Alexander Wilms, plasma-nm MR #491)
Added a button to System Settings’ Application Permissions page to revoke all screen-casting sessions immediately, so you don’t have to do it one-by-one when there are a lot of them. (Joaquim Monteiro, flatpak-kcm MR #169)
Improved the text and icon shown in notifications sent by Plasma. (Tobias Fella, plasma-workspace MR #6351 and plasma-workspace MR #6353)
Notable bug fixes
Plasma 6.6.1
Fixed a recent regression that broke the “Open containing folder” button for slideshow wallpapers. (Vlad Zahorodnii, KDE Bugzilla #515551)
Fixed a recent regression that made the search field in the System Tray widget’s config window lose focus after typing text into it. (Christoph Wolk, KDE Bugzilla #515863)
Fixed a recent regression that made all drawing tablet stylii claim to have 3 buttons in System Settings’ Drawing Tablet page, no matter how many buttons they actually had. (Kat Pavlu, KDE Bugzilla #516442)
Fixed a recent visual regression that made the dark blurry backgrounds of the logout screen and the Application Dashboard widget look too light. (Nate Graham, KDE Bugzilla #516266)
Fixed a recent visual regression that made the desktop’s selection rectangle only follow the system’s accent color when using the Breeze Plasma style. Now it once again respects the accent color with all Plasma styles. (Filip Fila, KDE Bugzilla #516498)
Fixed a case where Plasma could crash when dragging System Tray widgets between panels. (Nicolas Fella, KDE Bugzilla #508451)
Fixed a constellation of issues that made certain screens not light up again after waking from sleep. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #515550)
Setting up monitor dimming rules no longer sometimes re-orders the monitors when the system is woken from sleep. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #516611 and KDE Bugzilla #516454)
The Display Configuration widget’s “Show when relevant” setting now does something. (Albert Vaca Cintora, kscreen MR #465)
Digits in the Digital Clock widget are now localized as expected for writing systems that don’t use Latin digits. (Fushan Wen, KDE Bugzilla #485915)
Fixed an issue that could sometimes make the Bluetooth widget tell you the connection to a device failed when it actually succeeded. (Christoph Wolk, KDE Bugzilla #515189)
Plasma 6.6.2
Fixed a case where Discover could crash while installing updates. (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, discover MR #1268)
Fixed two cases where System Settings’ Shortcuts page could crash while searching for certain text or editing custom global shortcuts. (Akseli Lahtinen, KDE Bugzilla #516488 and KDE Bugzilla #516607)
Clearing the clipboard contents now also clears passwords and other secrets marked with special “hide me from the history” metadata that were copied but not actually added to the history. (Tobias Fella, KDE Bugzilla #516403)
Fixed an issue that made the desktop not notice when files were deleted using Dolphin. (Akseli Lahtinen, KDE Bugzilla #516559)
Fixed an issue with the Global Menu widget’s compact button form that made the menu not always appear on click. (Christoph Wolk, KDE Bugzilla #516207)
Frameworks 6.24
The System Tray icon for KDE’s Kleopatra cryptography app now re-colors itself properly when using a non-default color scheme. (Oleg Kosmakov, breeze-icons MR #529)
Notable in performance & technical
Plasma 6.6.2
Improved support for mice with high-resolution scroll wheels in the built-in remote desktop (RDP) server. (reali es, KDE Bugzilla #511029)
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