A brand new difficulty of This Week in Plasma is out, and it incorporates a pleasant mixture of bug fixes for the just lately launched Plasma 6.4, UI enhancements for the upcoming Plasma 6.5, and extra.

To start out with the massive information, Plasma 6.4.3, scheduled to land on the fifteenth of this month, goes to deal with an annoying drawback with show scaling. Particularly, the automated scale issue calculator on Wayland will not counsel values which might be just a bit over 100%.

The brand new logic will as a substitute around the calculated default scale issue all the way down to a crisp 100% if it could in any other case be simply barely over, as developer Nate Graham notes:

Scale elements near 1 however not precisely 1 produce substantial blurriness. 1x seems to be significantly better for these circumstances, even when the price is that issues are a bit smaller than best.

Now, shifting on to Plasma 6.5, which is deliberate for later this yr, there are some helpful quality-of-life modifications. For example, the popup preview for an empty folder on the desktop now reveals a placeholder message so it’s extra apparent what you’re looking at as a substitute of simply being a bizarre empty field.

The replace additionally makes screencasts of a particular window embody any popups that the window creates.

As for system audio, in Plasma 6.5, while you unmute the quantity, it would now unmute all playback gadgets, not simply the lively one.

Plasma 6.5 can also be getting a brand new digital keyboard. The KDE workforce has been working by itself on-screen keyboard for some time now, aiming to ultimately substitute the present customary, Maliit. That is what the keyboard seems to be like in the meanwhile:

For now, there are nonetheless points like no enter in Electron apps and different little quirks, which the KDE workforce hopes to repair sooner or later.

What’s a “This Week in KDE” replace with out bug fixes? In Plasma 6.3.6, a repair landed landed to cease display flicker when enjoying full-screen video games after you’ve gotten switched focus away from them.

Plasma 6.4.2, which we lined this week, introduced a handful of its personal fixes, like stopping KWin from crashing should you messed with Process Switcher shortcuts and restoring performance for the World Menu widget’s “Single button” mode.

And the upcoming 6.4.3 can be getting fixes for the Orca display reader in Be taught mode, a crash within the built-in RDP server when dealing with dangerous connections, and a repair for some points the place the display would flip itself again on after being turned off.

And at last, Plasma 6.5 will carry a repair for a bug the place hitting the escape key within the Wireguard VPN properties dialog may break it.

Different little enhancements are touchdown in Frameworks 6.16 too, reminiscent of higher sorting in open and save dialogs and improved detection of highly effective GPUs for programs with multiple.