This week in Plasma Applications

Archie1 · March 9, 2026, 4:39am

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

Changes have come in the following applications

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

Archie1 · March 18, 2026, 6:38am

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

Clipboard widget no longer shows you QR codes for non-text items
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.
Plugging in a USB printer now shows only one notification about it, not two.
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.)
Implemented a fix in Plasma code to prevent Electron apps’ System Tray icons from all following each others’ settings.
Reduced CPU and GPU load for full-screen windows (also known as “direct scan-out”) for screens using more fractional scale factors.
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.
And many many more.

Archie1 · March 23, 2026, 8:20am

Changes that have been made into KDE applications this week.

In case of digital Clock if multiple time zones are added then the time difference between the time zones is now displayed.
Users can now reverse the ordering of items in the System Tray widget.
KDE Discover now sorts app lists by number of reviews by default. A Pity that it is still not recommended to use with systems running pacman
The currently-active task in a grouped task tooltip now has bold text, to help you pick it out.
Labels for Bluetooth devices in the System Tray widget have been re-arranged so that you can always see the battery level no matter how long the device name is.
KWin Crashes
Reduced CPU and GPU load for full-screen windows (also known as “direct scan-out”) on screens without the pointer on them - In plasma 6.6.4
Added support for “3D LUTs” in KWin, which reduces resource usage on GPUs that support color pipelines in hardware. - In plasma 6.7

And many more

Archie1 · March 30, 2026, 8:48pm

Changes that are coming down in KDE applications this wek

Some of the changes and fixes are

In upcoming Plasma 6.7 - recording from microphone is now supported along with mic volume level, whether it is too high or too low
In the upcoming Plasma 6.7 - Changes in the way notifications from flatpak and portal-sandboxed applications are shown in Plasma
The KDE Network widget shows the last used network without the need to restart - From Plasma 6.6.4 onwards
In KDE Network limit the Wi-Fi band for networks in infrastructure mode. -From Plasma 6.7 onwards
Work on Wayland 1.48 to start in KWIN.
Quite a few bug fixes related to detection of multi-GPU systems, crash fixes, multi-CPU systems, etc.

And many more.

Archie1 · April 6, 2026, 4:32am

Changes coming down in plasma and KDE applications this week

Improvements in how the menu items in the Breeze Themes are handled.
Improvements in how tooltips are displayed.
Plasma-Login-Manager, now retains the settings of the various keyboard layouts set inside Plasma
Various improvements while using touch screens.
Pasting when clipboard is empty now fails silently. Previously it used to show a popup.
Hardened KWin against XWayland apps being sized incorrectly on systems with config files containing inappropriate scale values.
Implemented support for the xx-fractional-scale-v2 Wayland protocol, which improves visual fidelity by reducing gaps between adjacent items.
Ongoing adding of Vulkan support.
A lot of bug fixes in VPN, Display, Plasma On-Screen keyboard

Next week there might not be any update.

Archie1 · May 5, 2026, 11:50am

Another update for Plasma this week.

In Plasma 6.7 and onwards support for Background Apps portal has been introduced. Is expected to help GNOME apps running in KDE.
Improved the up-scaling feature for screen content when using KWin’s Zoom effect.
The printer widget will now display the number of active and queued print jobs.
Applications, like xdotool that use XWayland, which have the need to send synthetic keyboard and mouse events are now identified easily. Also applications to which such access is given is also listed and those accesses can now be revoked easily.
KDE Discover now handles instances where it is launched without internet connection much more gracefully. Still a pity that it is not recommended to use it with Arch and pacman.
Starting with Plasma 6.7 a new cross-desktop standard “Projects” folder has been implemented, which should be visible under the $HOME directory of users.
Improvements and bug fixes in automatic screen brightness feature, KDE Discover handles firmware update, KDE-Connect display of low battery notification for the phone, NVidia graphics handling with KDE, and many more.

Apologies for missing out the intermediate updates. Was traveling and had some high priority tasks to complete.

smokey · May 5, 2026, 12:49pm

doubt it, KDE been kicking a lot of as of late

smokey · May 5, 2026, 12:50pm

Thanks for posting the updates here

Archie1 · May 11, 2026, 6:31am

Another update for Plasma this week.

These are the changes that are coming for Plasma

When HDR mode is available, ICC profile can now be used.
For AMD laptops with adaptive backlight modulation capability, the intensity of the adaptive backlight modulation capability, is now controllable. It can be turned off too.
In Plasma 6.7, the sensors which show temperature in Info Center will now show the temperature based on the system settings. Previously it used to default to Celcius. Helpful for people in North America and those of the scientific mind (read Kelvin fan boys).
Bug Fix - In Plasma 6.7, if the user has the configured the same flatpak repo twice, then KDE Discover will show only the application name once.
In Plasma 6.7, if you are using Kickoff application launcher then apps listed in the launcher can be removed by simply dragging them outside of the launcher.
Bug Fixes - In Plasma 6.6.5 sometimes the power button used to just vanish. This was fixed.
Bug Fixes - For computers having multiple GPUs, sometimes freezes and stutters were observed. That has been fixed.
In Plasma 6.7 performance is improved if CPU based rendering is used, for example for QT and KDE apps.
Many more bug fixes.