Nate Graham, a quality assurance developer for the KDE project, has published the latest KDE development report. The most notable change is the addition of the KDE Initial System Setup (KISS) wizard to the branch that forms the basis for the KDE Plasma 6.5 release, which complements the Welcome Center. The KDE Initial System Setup offers system operations that are performed before the first login after installation, such as creating a new user under which further work will be carried out, choosing the language and time zone, setting the keyboard layout, and configuring network access.
Other changes in the KDE Plasma 6.5 branch:
- Added support for scrolling widgets in the panel, activated when the elements do not fit into the available space.
- The KWin composite manager uses an improved tone mapping curve (HDR Tone Mapping) when displaying HDR content.
- The default configurator no longer displays the graphics tablet settings page on systems that do not have such devices connected.
- The configurator now displays more relevant information about available game controllers.
- The notification history no longer shows a notification with a summary of missed events while in Do Not Disturb mode.
- KWin has changed the way it handles the timer in the rendering loop, which has allowed it to slightly reduce resource consumption.
- Added support for the second version of the xdg portal for setting system-wide key combinations.
- The KDE Frameworks 6.18 branch has improved thumbnail generation speed.
- The branch that forms the basis for the KDE Plasma 6.4.5 release fixes an issue that caused flickering on some systems with amdgpu drivers. A bug that caused KDE Plasma to hang after copying files over a slow network connection and opening the clipboard popup has been fixed.
Source: opennet.ru
