The latest KDE development report has been released, highlighting the upcoming changes for the KDE Plasma 6.7 branch set to launch in June. Some of the recent developments include:
- On systems with i915 and Intel XE drivers for Intel GPUs, KWin enabled support for hardware overlay planes, which improves performance and reduces power consumption for applications and games.
- KWin incorporated optimizations to reduce power consumption when working with full-screen windows and effects unaffected by direct scan-out.
- The application menu Kicker now features an option to display a list of recently opened directories. Users can also remove items from the “Favorites” section in the Kicker and Dashboard widgets by dragging them outside the widget.
- The network management widget now supports creating duplicates of network connection profiles.
- KWin window rules now have the capability to bind dialog windows to a specified parent window, as added.
- In the Discover application installation manager, the design of the parameters area for applications has been updated, moving the installation button to a more accessible location.
- In KDE Frameworks 6.26, improvements have been made to the clarity of drawing icons for QtQuick applications when using fractional scaling. Additionally, a provider for searching in KRunner through the startpage.com service has been added with the “sp” prefix before the query term.
/Reports, release notes, official announcements.