KDE Plasma Fixes A "Major Performance Issue" Seen With Intel Graphics On Wayland
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KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development summary recap. Some of the highlights for this past week included:
- KRunner's auto-complete behavior has been enhanced for Plasma 6.
- The Plasma 6 keyboard indicator widget now visually shows the state of the caps lock and num lock keys.
- The Kate 23.08 text editor is adding an option to open new tabs immediately to the right of the current tab.
- The Elisa music player has a smarter algorithm for finding music album cover files.
- When having a multi-channel audio setup that's configured to have different volume levels for each channel, adjusting the global volume level will now adjust each channel's volume proportionally.
- Gwenview now supports opening ".nef" RAW image files.
- Plasma 5.27.7 will see a "major performance issue" resolved around Plasma Wayland with Intel GPUs that was causing issues when animating widgets with the background contrast effect turned on.
- Various other fixes and improvements.
More details on the KDE changes this week via Nate's blog.
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