KDE Plasma 6.7 remains on track for its planned June 16 release (beta is already available), with a new set of fixes targeting stability, desktop behavior, Discover, KWin, and various Plasma widgets.
Notably, when clearing the clipboard with starred items present, Plasma now preserves starred entries automatically. These must be cleared manually, and users are no longer prompted to remove them.
The Disks & Devices widget received a visual update. When a disk is connected, and the widget appears, it no longer briefly flashes the notification icon.
On the bug fixes side, Plasma 6.7 now resolves desktop crashes that could occur when connecting or disconnecting screens. There’s also a workaround for a Qt issue that caused the crash reporter to crash repeatedly, preventing users from reporting the original problem.
Discover received two key fixes. One addresses a crash that could occur when installing a Flatpak application from a downloaded .flatpakref file. The other corrects inconsistent state reporting, where Discover might display different install or uninstall statuses for the same application on different pages.
In KWin, developers fixed memory leaks and resolved two pointer-related issues with the Zoom effect. One fix prevents duplicate pointers from appearing when enlarging the pointer, while another ensures the pointer remains synchronized when dragging items while zoomed in.
Multi-monitor support was improved as well. Plasma now includes stronger safeguards to prevent gaps between screens in multi-monitor layouts, addressing issues with desktop geometry and window placement.
Additional fixes were made to widgets and the desktop shell. The Weather Report widget no longer causes Plasma to crash during update checks. On X11, an issue that caused the Kickoff Application Launcher to grow vertically after login has been resolved. The Digital Clock widget now correctly colors calendar-event dots for days from the previous month.
Finally, the Global Theme creator was updated to fix an issue that caused panel settings to be saved incorrectly.
For more details, refer to the “This Week in Plasma” post series on the KDE Blogs.
KDE/Gnome = bloated
I prefer a simple and elegant Window Manager.
It’s good they’re fixing crashes, KDE has almost always been crashy for me.
I heard about KDE that it was slow and bloated, I was using Mint Cinnamon before, but when I moved to Tuxedo with KDE, I noticed that it’s so much faster. Sure, it uses more RAM on boot than Cinnamon, but everything feels more faster.
In fact, people have been saying that in recent versions KDE is using less and less system resources with every update released. Currently I’m using KDE 6.5, which is by no means the most recent one, but it has been really fast and stable, I don’t remember one time in almost a year of using it full time that it crashed or used so much system resources that my computer felt slow.
I think it’s currently the most modern and functional DE out there. Gnome seems like it tries to copy the MacOS weird UI and UX and it’s so unappealing to me, Cinnamon, LXQt and XFCE seem so stuck in the past, the other DEs aren’t even worth mentioning as they are edge cases that work for some power users and enthusiasts who enjoy using their computers in unorthodox ways with keyboard commands and UI that is lacking and a normal person will have trouble completing even the most basic tasks with. It’s good that they exist as alternatives, but KDE has the most standard and user-friendly UI of them all.