This week in Plasma Applications

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A new blog for KDE Applications has been released.
This week in KDE Applications

Changes have come in the following applications

  1. Dolphin
  2. KDE Marknote
  3. KMyMoney
  4. Merkuro Calendar - A direct competitor to KOrganizer
  5. Merkuro Mail - A direct competitor to KMail
  6. Merkuro Contact - A direct competitor to KAddressBook
  7. KMail
  8. Glaxnimate - First Initial Release

And many more. Read the full blog post for more details.

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Changes which have come into KDE Applications this week
This week in KDE Applications - Mar 14, 2026.

Some of the notable fixes and new features are

  1. Clipboard widget no longer shows you QR codes for non-text items
  2. ability to type characters not on your physical keyboard by pressing-and-holding the keys that it does have. This requires plasma-keyboard package to be installed.
  3. Plugging in a USB printer now shows only one notification about it, not two.
  4. The reset button in System Settings’ SDDM configuration page now resets a few more things it had missed in the past. (Horraaahhh SDDM is not dead and KDE still supports it.)
  5. Implemented a fix in Plasma code to prevent Electron apps’ System Tray icons from all following each others’ settings.
  6. Reduced CPU and GPU load for full-screen windows (also known as “direct scan-out”) for screens using more fractional scale factors.
  7. If you happen to have multiple GPUs and any of them don’t actually support OpenGL 3D acceleration, this no longer prevents the more capable ones from providing 3D acceleration.
  8. And many many more.
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