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"This Week in Plasma" brings you windows with rounded corners (which can be made square again if you wish), adjustable sidebars for Discover and System Monitor, and the work in progress to improve KRunner's search results:
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/19/this-week-in-plasma-rounded-bottom-corners/
"This week in Plasma" brings the news that you will be able to configure the rotatable dial on your drawing tablet in Plasma 6.5, the Welcome Center gets accessibility improvements, and automatic wallpaper transitions linked to you day/night cycle are coming soon:
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/12/this-week-in-plasma-tablet-dials-and-day/night-cycles/
Last night, I set up the new workstation for my father-in-law. He was using a roughly 10-year-old computer with Windows 10 and an old monitor. It has been replaced by an Intel N150 MiniPC and this HP monitor, which was on sale at the shopping center near his house.
The total cost for the setup shown (excluding headphones but including the monitor) was 240 euros.
It's running openSUSE Slowroll, which I'll update occasionally when we visit him.
He started working and exclaimed, "It's super fast!"
You don't need a lot of money to have a valid and performant workstation, especially if you choose the right OS.
My only regret is not being able to use one of the BSDs, as none of them were perfectly supported by the MiniPC.
The latest issue of "This week in Plasma" brings the news that now there's a pop-up preview for folders on the desktop that are empty, that the Plasma Virtual Keyboard is coming along nicely, and that screen recordings of specific windows now capture that window's popups too:
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/05/this-week-in-plasma-chugging-along/
"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that QtQuick-based KDE software acquires inertial scrolling using touchpads, the inbuilt RDP service supports syncing clipboard text between client and server, and session restore (Plasma remembering the position and size of windows) is coming to Wayland, among many other things:
Nate Graham lays out the state of Plasma's X11 session, the short term plans, and how things will go in the future.
https://pointieststick.com/2025/06/21/about-plasmas-x11-session/
"This week in Plasma" brings the news that Discover's list views can now be navigated with the keyboard, and that we met another accessibility standard by improving the readability of graph axis labels, as well as of selected items in KRunner and Discover, among many other things.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/21/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.4-has-arrived/
Plasma 6.4 is out and it's' more welcoming than ever!
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/
Check out the tweaked tiling that lets you have different layouts for every virtual desktop; the overhauled Spectacle that makes capturing your desktop faster; how KRunner now understands color; and in general the literally dozens of other fixes and features that make Plasma friendlier and easier to use.
"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6.5.0 will _probably_ have picture-in-picture support under Wayland, that you will be able to re-order your virtual desktops, and that Spectacle will clearly tell you how to stop a screen recording (among many other things).
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/14/this-week-in-plasma-wayland-pip-and-accessibility/
MA Barbe reviews KDE's contributions to the ecosystem during the State of Libre Graphics keynote at the @lgm 2025.
Although the whole video is interesting, the KDE section starts at 32:00 and covers the newest graphical features in #Plasma6, @Krita, @kdenlive and Glaxnimate.
https://media.ccc.de/v/lgm25-upstream-2025-83646-state-of-libre-graphics#t=1931
This Week in Plasma brings the news that, with Plasma 6.4 little more than a week away, developers are hard at work crushing bugs and polishing the code.
In other news: The app launcher menu favorites and the networks list in System Settings are now keyboard-accessible, the Info Center’s Energy graph gets a smooth animation, and much more.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/07/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.4-is-nigh/
"This Week in Plasma" brings elegant symbolic icons for the dictionary and web browser widgets, a warning about rising the volume limits, improvements to the Bluetooth pairing wizard, and tons of tweaks and corrections for the upcoming versions of Plasma.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/31/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.4-stabilizes/
Plasma 6.4 Beta 2 has landed. Devs have made more than 270 changes, correcting bugs, updating features and tweaking the code.
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.91/
Now it is time to put all of Plasma through its paces again!
If you are a tester, take it for a spin and submit bug reports to: