Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in Plasma"! Every week we cover the highlights of what's happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.
new tabs are a visual regression for me ; it is difficult to see which content it covers.
Isn’t wp-fifo-v1 merge worth a mention? 
So this is just a plugin and it can be permanently disabled?
“KWin’s “Dim Screen for Administrator Mode” plugin is now on by default”
I hate this screen dimming effect. I have no difficulties whatsoever with noticing the dialog in the middle of the screen and there is no need to focus my attention. Linux Mint added this and it can’t be disabled which removed Mint from my short list of fav Linux distros. This is unnecessary hand-holding that I’d expect from Apple or MS. This is NOT an improvement by any stretch of imagination but an UI annoyance.
It’s also an accessibility issue as some people simply find this effect uncomfortable, especially if the background is also blurred at the same time. I have to disable all animations, blur, DOF, effecst etc in any UI I use.
It’s always nice to see improvements in plasma! It’s really a great desktop!!!
But I would really like if someone would really fix the automatic updates bug!!!
We get that feature in all other wide-used desktops except for plasma!!!
It’s really “a thing” to have to manually install updates every day and then reboot the machine…
please, give some love to that bug… (again!)
Have to agree with this. New tab style looks a little too bloated.
@anonnetuser, yes (in kcm_kwin_effects):
I missed that one! A lot of time these KWin merge requests are phrased so modestly that I accidentally overlook them. I’ll include it next week.
Note that it’s not new; this style has been in use for immutable tool view tabs for over a year IIRC. You’ll see it in the properties dialog, Dolphin’s settings window, Okular’s sidebar, several System Settings pages, and a bunch of other places. A similar (though admittedly not identical) style is also used for tabs in Plasma, visible in Kickoff and the Audio Volume widget.
Thank you. 
I’ve added this to $HOME/.config/discoverrc:
[Software]
UseOfflineUpdates=false
This gives you full control which updates to install and when.
No need to reboot unless you want to, e.g. after updating the kernel.
I know, but still it was better before 
Yeah… I know I don’t have to reboot right away… it’s a personal thing ahah!
I could also install the updates “live” while working (at a possible cost of stability) which was how I used to have it (I don’t recall if I have to go push the install button manually, however…)!
But generally speaking offline updates are the recommended setting for updates and it would be a lot easier -specially for newbies - if it could just work automatically!
For what it’s worth, for me it is a major improvement as “a dialog with all other content disappearing or deprioritized” instantly triggers something in my brain as a signal that privilege escalation is being requested.
It could also be an accessibility issue for folks who have trouble visually locating or focusing on a relatively small dialog box, potentially in the middle of a massive high-resolution modern screen.
I’m not saying you’re wrong in how you prefer to use your device - but designs and default settings for desktop environments and operating systems have to account for the general needs of a pretty wide spectrum of users
In my opinion, the KMenuEdit changes very much deserve their spot near the top of this week’s post:
The “locate the originating .desktop file” feature is not one that will necessarily be used every day - but when the need arises, having it there is a massive diagnostic aid, and the implementation is quite elegant!
Plus, it’s much appreciated that @olib took the time to give a thoughtful approach to the interface of a power-user app - not taking for granted that folks who arrive there will figure it out anyway, but working to give them a visually pleasant and more intuitive experience along the way. (Even if I am still worrying, and still find some interface elements hard to love )
As long as it’s optional it’s fine, though it irks me that it’s the default, but whatever, if I can disable it and my choice sticks, it’s OK.
It bothers me when features like this are enforced and non-optional, hard to remove or get reset by updates because the devs think something is great for everybody. Italicized shortcuts is an example of such non-optional UI annoyance.
I’ve been using computers for over 30 years and I dislike the excessive hand holding and “we know better what’s good for you” attitude that is so prevalent these days in software design.
I was curious: where did the list of all fixed KDE bugs for the week go? Is it due to a bug in Bugzilla, or is this going to be permanent? Thank you in advance for your reply!
All the bugs are always kept in bugzilla.
You can get whatever bug lists you want using queries:
This blog series focusing exclusively on Plasma now, I thought it was unnecessary information to give the number of all bugs fixed, including those outside of Plasma.
The reason this was added in the past was to address a concern someone expressed that the older non-Plasma-specific blog post was misleading people into thinking that what I reported on was everything happening throughout all of KDE — which of course was never the intention!
Fast forward a few years, and the posts are quite clearly scoped to only Plasma, so the “all bugs fixed everywhere” link seems unnecessary.
Few other pages such as about kde, about dolphin, wifi and internet uses old style tab design. Will they also get the new design eventually ?