The KDE Project announced the launch of KDE Frameworks 6.3 today, continuing to enhance their collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt which bolster a variety of functionalities required for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and KDE applications.
The release of KDE Frameworks 6.3 brings notable enhancements in the rendering of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images particularly on screens using a fractional scale factor, aiming to minimize blurriness. Additionally, this update provides a visual overhaul for small in-window dialogs and command bars in QtQuick- and QtWidgets-based apps respectively.
This update further enhances the visual presentation of icons in dialogs throughout the Plasma desktop and applications, by switching to normal colored icons. It also refines user interaction with checkboxes within dialogs used for selecting windows and screens to share, and makes color adjustments to some Breeze icons to better align with dark color schemes.
KDE Frameworks 6.3 addresses a significant delay while opening the File Search page in System Settings caused by the file indexer’s high load, fixes the “Pick your installation option popup” in the “Get new [thing]” windows which encountered issues after updating to Qt 6.7, and enhances search functionality in the Kickoff application launcher.
Additionally, the latest KDE Frameworks release enhances the KSvg items and Kirigami.Icon within the Plasma desktop, ensuring SVG images that are re-colorable adapt well to any color scheme, including hybrid light-dark themes like Breeze Twilight, and presenting the CatWalk cat accurately across theme variations.
Other significant updates in KDE Frameworks 6.3 include the introduction of symbolic icons linked as symlinks to existing monochrome icons, the removal of recently added process-working-symbolic icons, the implementation of full symlink verification during Breeze icon resource creation, and enhanced support for Qt 6.7 across numerous components.
Check out the release notes for more details about the changes included in this update. Meanwhile, if you’re using the KDE Plasma desktop environment, it is highly recommended that you update to the KDE Frameworks 6.3 packages as soon as they arrive in the stable software repositories of your GNU/Linux distribution.
The next KDE Frameworks update, v6.4, is planned for July 12th, 2024. Until then, we’re waiting for the big KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment release with its explicit GPU synchronization support and other new features later this month on June 18th.
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