The next weekly KDE development report has been published, which presents a portion of changes for the KDE Plasma 6.8 branch, scheduled for release on October 14th. Recent changes include:
- The KWin composite manager has discontinued support for the OpenGL desktop graphics API in favor of using only OpenGL ES. OpenGL ES support is required to run on some older GPUs. As it turns out, OpenGL ES is sufficient for all of KWin’s needs, so it is left as the base internal API, at least until Vulkan support is sufficiently mature. Leaving only OpenGL ES allowed the elimination of periodic problems caused by incompatibilities between OpenGL and OpenGL ES.
- In KWin implemented support for the new version of the system Emulated Input 1.6 (libei), used to emulate input in Wayland-based environments.
- Reworked notification sliding animation, which now uses a more natural curve for controlling the smoothness of acceleration and deceleration of animation over time (easing curve).
- Implemented a more realistic-looking animation of the jumping application icon shown next to the cursor to indicate the start of the program launch process.
- Character set in the Emoji selection interface updated to Unicode 17.
- In the Discover application manager, the “CD and DVD” category has been renamed to “Disc Burning”.
- Removed the undocumented key combination Meta+Ctrl+x, used to enable the automatic
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