KDE Sees Another Big Batch Of Plasma Wayland Improvements
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This week was yet another busy push of Plasma Wayland fixes ahead of next month's official v5.23 release. Among the changes this week were:
- KWin will no longer crash the Plasma Wayland session when disconnecting a Bluetooth drawing tablet.
- Long menus in applications on Plasma Wayland are no longer covered up by Plasma panels.
- Full-screen Chrome web apps should now work properly in Plasma Wayland.
- Plasma Wayland with multi-screen setups will now remember their panels, wallpapers, and widgets across reboots more reliably.
- Correct positioning of new panels created under Plasma Wayland.
- Correct handling when opening windows in a PLasma Wayland session that are larger than the area they fit into.
- Transparent themes are now displaying transparency correctly when using the NVIDIA proprietary driver under Plasma Wayland.
- KCalc now has a history view for showing prior calculations.
- The "share" menu for various KDE applications now allows generating a QR code.
- KDE Info Center will now allow displaying more detailed SMART status information.
More details on this week's KDE changes via this blog post by KDE developer Nate Graham.
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