KDE Plasma 6.7 is nearly complete. The latest “This Week in Plasma” update confirms development has entered the final polishing stage before the planned release next Tuesday, June 16.
A key user-facing improvement includes remote control permissions. When an authorized application controls the system, Plasma now notifies users during active sessions. Pointer navigation with the number pad has also been improved: pressing multiple numpad keys now moves the pointer to an intermediate direction.
KRunner searches are now more relevant. Plasma 6.7 suppresses “Global Shortcuts” results when better matches are available, making searches less cluttered. Plus, the automatic day/night theme switcher now changes themes halfway between the start and end around dawn or dusk, resulting in a more natural transition.
Additionally, kde-shader-wallpaper is now an approved wallpaper plugin in Plasma Login Manager.
The update addresses a wide range of bugs. Plasma 6.7 resolves an issue where creating a file named metadata.desktop in the home folder could break the Icons-Only Task Manager widget. Additionally, a fix for multi-activity setups ensures that if the active activity is deleted, Plasma switches to the next available activity instead of crashing.
Discover receives a crash fix related to processing distribution package changes. Plasma also resolves a crash that could occur after waking from sleep if monitors were added or removed during suspension.
System Monitor receives several fixes. Crashes when quitting with the column configuration dialog open are resolved, the Process Table view now displays formatted data, and graphs show fractional axis labels when appropriate.
KWin addresses two regressions: one that broke animations after opening applications with invisible windows, and another that caused the pointer to incorrectly display the “app is launching” animation when minimizing windows using the Plastik decoration style.
Wallpaper handling is improved as well, with Plasma now remembering the last-seen wallpaper in non-random slideshows, fixing a regression that caused slideshows to restart from the first image at each login.
Additional fixes address the Weather Report widget endlessly reloading after sleep, notification icons stuck in a half-rotated state, translated labels reverting to English after saving Screen Locking settings, and the Color Picker widget overflowing when placed in a Grouping widget.
For more details, refer to the “This Week in Plasma” post series on the KDE Blogs.
trinity desktop environment is better! it really preserves the old KDE look!
Does Trinity support Wayland? This is very important for any modern DE and any modern distro that is to be taken seriously and not some useless passion project.
I can’t use Linux on my laptop unless the distro supports Wayland and fractional scaling so any distro or DE for that matter that doesn’t have those is completely useless to me and falls into the category of pointless garbage.
I managed to install Q4OS on an old Fujitsu Siemens laptop from around 2005 that barely ran Windows XP before that and Trinity DE is useful for such a case, but for a modern device I think the user will face more difficulties than benefit from it.
Preserving the old look/style of something is good and commendable, but if it doesn’t have all the modern capabilities under the hood, then it’s pretty useless. I would like to have a KDE3 (like Trinity) based distro or a Gnome 2 (like Mate) but they seem all so outdated to me. I would also like to see a modern Windows that has 100% support for themes like XP Bliss Luna or Windows Vista/7 Aero, but is also current and up-to-date but that won’t happen either and 3rd party modders can’t do these things anymore, Windows prevents customization and the Linux DEs that try to replicate the old style simply lack the support and manpower to be an up-to-date alternative. I don’t like the current Gnome, but it, along with KDE (and maybe Cosmic) are the only modern DEs that support Wayland and should be taken seriously at all.