The latest KDE weekly development report has been published, presenting changes for the KDE Plasma 6.7 branch, expected to be released in June. A few days ago, the KDE Plasma 6.7 branch entered a soft freeze, during which time new feature submissions have ceased, and developers' attention has shifted to polishing functionality before release and finalizing the integration of previously planned changes into the branch. Among the changes accepted this week:
- Added support for the "Background apps" (org.freedesktop.background.Monitor) portal (xdg-desktop-portal), which allows graphical applications to go into the background with hidden windows, leaving only an indicator of their status in the system tray.
- Added support for the second version of the org.freedesktop.impl.portal.InputCapture portal, which is used to provide access to input capture from sandboxed applications.
- Added the ability to rename or move the default "Projects" directory, which has recently been created by distributions in the user's home directory in addition to the "Documents", "Downloads", "Desktop", "Videos", "Music" and "Pictures" directories.
- Added a feature to enlarge screen content without losing quality, based on the Zoom effect in KWin.
- The print output widget placed on the panel now displays labels indicating the number of active and queued jobs.
- When an X11 application running via XWayland requests permission to send programmatically generated mouse and keyboard events, the application name is now displayed. The configurator now displays a list of applications that have previously been granted this permission.
- The KDE style is now applied to dialogs displayed by Qt applications that use the MessageDialog QML type (for example, used by the Sticky Note application in its confirmation dialog).
- The Discover application manager now handles startup on systems without internet access. Improved notification of scheduled firmware updates during the next reboot.
- Clicking on buttons at the top of Widget Explorer has been simplified (clicking now works if you click with the cursor on the screen border above the button, without having to click the button directly).
- Additional parameters are now taken into account when automatically changing screen brightness for better performance in conditions of frequently changing lighting.
- The 25-second limitation for selecting a color after invoking the Color Picker widget has been removed.
- KDE Frameworks 6.26 improves the fade-out effect when switching between pages in Kirigami-based applications.
Source: opennet.ru
