KDE Lands Per-Monitor Brightness Controls & Better KWin HDR Tone Mapping

Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 24 August 2024 at 06:10 AM EDT. 14 Comments
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Ahead of the KDE Plasma 6.2 soft feature freeze happening next week, KDE developers have been preparing some last minut features for the desktop.

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly recap of all interesting things KDE for the week. Some of this week's KDE development highlights include:

- The Plasma brightness widget now allows per monitor/display brightness sliders. Every connected monitor with brightness control capabilities is now exposed independently.

- For offline update handling, Plasma 6.2 adds the ability to update and shutdown the computer -- complement the existing reboot, skip the update, and update then reboot options.

- Long-pressing an empty area of a Plasma panel will now enter the panel edit mode.

- A UX overhaul to the "add widgets" sidebar.

- Improved KWin HDR tone mapping.

- Improved KWin performance for some multi-GPU systems.

- Many bug fixes.

More details on the interesting KDE changes for the week via Nate's blog.
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