The KDE project has announced the launch of KDE Frameworks 6.7, the newest iteration of its extensive suite of over 70 libraries designed to enhance Qt. These libraries offer a variety of essential features for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and KDE applications.
KDE Frameworks 6.7 introduces exciting features such as the ability to add templates to the “Create New…” menu in the Plasma desktop and Dolphin file manager by placing files in the ~/Templates directory. There’s also a redesigned icon indicating when “sleep and screen locking are inhibited,” along with the capability to display elided text labels in tooltips on hover throughout the grid views in System Settings.
Moreover, the release brings enhancements to the Sticky Notes widget, which now features a symbolic monochrome design that shows up when placed on a panel while utilizing the Breeze icon theme. This marks the completion of the KDE developers’ initiative to incorporate symbolic panel icons for all default Plasma widgets.
Additionally, KDE Frameworks 6.7 refines the Plasma Discover package manager, ensuring it remembers its previously displayed window size before being maximized. It also modifies all QtQuick-based KDE applications to open the menu beneath the focused item when the “Show Menu” key is pressed, rather than under the cursor. Finally, the “Upload to Imgur” sharing plugin across KDE software has been updated to allow uploads of only file types that are supported by Imgur.
Certainly, KDE Frameworks 6.7 addresses a multitude of issues, including a regression that led to vertical misalignment in the title of components using Kirigami.OverlaySheet. It also resolves a color-related bug in Kirigami, where disabled buttons in various Kirigami-based applications did not appear visually disabled, along with some text on the Screen Locking page in System Settings appearing disabled.
Additionally, this update fixes a problem where global shortcuts for launching the Kickoff application launcher would fail if Plasma was restarted using the plasmashell --replace command. It also addresses a visual issue resulting in flickering informational tooltips across System Settings, along with a number of sizing issues impacting Kirigami.Dialog and its subclasses, and binding loops associated with them.
Finally, KDE Frameworks 6.7 enhances how KDE applications detect mountpoints, potentially delivering up to an 80 percent performance boost in various file-related operations. Moreover, it improves the performance of KFilePlacesItem, leading to faster startup speeds for any components utilizing the Places panel.
For additional information, don’t miss the complete changelog. In the meantime, make sure to monitor the stable software repositories of your preferred GNU/Linux distributions for the KDE Frameworks 6.7 packages. It’s important to update your installations promptly, particularly if you’re utilizing the KDE Plasma desktop environment or any KDE applications.
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