Nate Graham, a quality assurance developer for the KDE project, has published the latest KDE development report. Among the changes being developed for the KDE Plasma 6.4 release:
- Improved Wayland support. The KWin composite manager uses a stable version of the Wayland ext-data-control protocol, which allows clients to control data processing, for example, to implement clipboard managers. In a Wayland-based environment, the ability to use relative positioning on graphic tablets has been added, in which the stylus position is determined relative to the previous position, rather than the absolute position on the tablet surface. The ability to control the graphic cursor using the keyboard has been adapted for working with Waylan.
- Added labels for recently installed programs to the Kickoff application menu.
- Added a warning that is displayed when trying to access the microphone from an application if the microphone is set to silent mode in the settings.
- KMenuEdit now has the ability to configure selected applications to always run on the discrete GPU.
- A new section "Animation" has been added to the configurator, where the animated effects settings have been moved. General effects not related to the visualization of the transition from one state to another have been left in the "Desktop effects" section.
- Notification handling has been changed when opening applications in full-screen mode. Instead of ignoring non-critical notifications when working with full-screen programs, the "do not disturb" mode is now automatically enabled. The difference is that after exiting full-screen mode, a warning about missed notifications will be shown. If desired, the new behavior can be disabled in the settings.
- The system tray now shows information about the unconfigured weather widget.
- In the panel settings dialog, two separate buttons in the header have been converted into menus, which has solved the problem with the dialog stretching on localized systems due to too long words on the buttons.
- The user management page now displays a warning when attempting to delete a user with an active session. If you confirm such an operation, the files of such a user will not be deleted.
- A warning has been added to the system tray settings that is displayed when attempting to disable the clipboard management service.
- The design of dialogs for setting up widgets for the clock, dictionary, timer, and displaying a slide show of selected images has been modernized.
- Increased the space between the Customize and Pin buttons in the Digital Clock widget window.
- Discover now supports using the search engine specified in system settings (previously it always used DuckDuckGo).
- The Media Controller widget now supports Ctrl+Tab and Alt+[number] key combinations for switching between tabs and sources.
- Spectacle now shows data processing indication after screencast recording is complete (previously it felt like the app was freezing).
- Fixed a bug where the global menu would sometimes show the wrong application's menu.
- Fixed a crash in KWin when disconnecting the laptop from some docking stations.
- Fixed crashes in Discover application manager.
Source: opennet.ru
