KDE Plasma 6.7 Sees Last Minute Fixes Ahead Of Next Week's Release

Ahead of the much anticipated Plasma 6.7 desktop release next week, KDE developers have been busy putting final touches on it, mostly in the form of bug/regression fixes.

This Week in Plasma is out with its latest issue to highlight the last minute fixes heading into Plasma 6.7 as well as some early changes also being funneled for Plasma 6.8. This week's highlights include:

- Plasma 6.6.6 fixes an issue where Plasma could crash if changing the monitor layout during the log-in process.

- Plasma 6.7 is fixing a condition where Plasma could crash when waking from sleep after monitors were added or removed during sleep.

- Various regression fixes for Plasma 6.7.

- Plasma 6.7 is improving the quality of KRunner search results by suppressing results from "Global Shortcuts" providers when there are better results from other providers.

- Plasma 6.8 is improving its logic to detect dark GTK2 themes and to then apply a matching icon theme to help lower the number of cases of illegible icons in old GTK2 apps.

- Frameworks 6.28 will now let you use the Meta key on its own to trigger KWin's Overview screen.

- Frameworks 6.28 also fixes a "weird issue" that could make Plasma freeze if creating a .desktop file with an icon set to be a local AVIF image and then putting it on the desktop.

- Plasma 6.8's Browser Integration will support the Flatpak version of Microsoft Edge.

- Various other bug fixes.

More details on these last minute fixes ahead of Plasma 6.7's release on 16 June can be found via This Week in Plasma.