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This Week in Plasma: Better hardware support

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/06/this-week-in-plasma-better-hardware-support/

Published: December 6, 2025 00:01

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week saw a bunch of user interface improvements and bug fixing, especially for the drawing tablets, printers, and monitors. Hardware is quirky! But of course that’s not all; check out the rest, too: …

This Week in Plasma: lots of cool stuff

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/29/this-week-in-plasma-lots-of-cool-stuff/

Published: November 29, 2025 00:01

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week saw quite a lot of feature work and user interface polish for Plasma 6.6! Have a look: Notable New Features Plasma 6.6.0 There are now global actions for seeking forwards or backwards 5 or 30 seconds…

Going all-in on a Wayland future

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/

Published: November 26, 2025 00:01

Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the…

This Week in Plasma: UI and performance improvements

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/22/this-week-in-plasma-ui-and-performance-improvements/

Published: November 22, 2025 00:01

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week there were many user interface and performance improvements — some quite consequential. So let’s get right into it! Notable New Features Plasma 6.6.0 Windows can now be selectively excluded from…

This Week in Plasma: OCR in Spectacle and many UI improvements

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/15/this-week-in-plasma-ocr-in-spectacle-and-many-ui-improvements/

Published: November 15, 2025 00:01

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week Spectacle gained OCR (optical character recognition) functionality, allowing you to turn words in images into selectable text! (and yes, this is Spectacle recording itself performing OCR)…

This Week in Plasma: Virtual desktops only on the primary screen

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/08/this-week-in-plasma-virtual-desktops-only-on-the-primary-screen/

Published: November 8, 2025 00:04

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week something that I know a lot of people have been wanting for a long time was implemented: the ability to limit virtual desktops to only the primary screen! Thanks very much to Kristen McWilliam for…

This Week in Plasma: control of frame intensity and image sharpening

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/01/this-week-in-plasma-control-of-frame-intensity-and-image-sharpening/

Published: November 1, 2025 00:04

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we worked really hard on fixing bugs! Overall, Plasma 6.5’s rollout went smoothly. But there were some regressions, and we’ve been working on fixing them as quickly as possible. Hopefully the release…

This Week in Plasma: Plasma 6.5 is here!

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/10/25/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.5-is-here/

Published: October 25, 2025 00:04

And by all accounts, it’s pretty good! So far Plasma 6.5 has been a rather smooth release, with the only significant regression I’ve seen so far being a compatibility issue with older AMD GPUs that turned the cursor into Swiss cheese. It’s already fixed,…