KDE developers continue polishing Plasma 6.7 ahead of its scheduled release on June 16, 2026.
One small UI fix concerns Kickoff, Plasma’s application launcher. In Plasma 6.7, hovering over a partially visible item in the launcher no longer unexpectedly scrolls the view to reveal the whole item. This change removes an irritating behavior that made the launcher move when users were simply navigating.
Spectacle screenshot tool also receives a clipboard-related improvement. Its option to automatically copy screenshots to the clipboard is temporarily disabled while text is extracted through OCR. This ensures the extracted text, not the screenshot, is placed on the clipboard.
Another fix affects Plasma’s animated launch feedback. When an application launches from a terminal window, the launch feedback effect now ends properly once the application starts instead of continuing longer than expected.
On the bug-fix side, Plasma 6.7 restores proper behavior for VNC-based screen sharing after a regression prevented Ctrl and Alt modifier keys from being sent to the remote machine.
In the Digital Clock widget, KDE developers addressed an issue that could cause Plasma to freeze when users quickly switched months in the calendar view by dragging repeatedly in quick succession.
The Task Manager widget now handles grouped tasks better. Its “Move to Desktop” feature has been fixed to work correctly with grouped applications, improving behavior for users who organize windows across multiple virtual desktops.
Plasma 6.7 also includes fixes for the Grouping widget. Two issues were resolved: one where the widget did not reappear immediately after undoing its deletion, and another where a phantom header remained visible after the last app was removed.
Finally, System Settings now raises and focuses its window as expected when launched with a higher-than-default focus stealing prevention level. This fixes a case where the application opened without properly coming to the front.
For more details, refer to the “This Week in Plasma” post series on the KDE Blogs.
