Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week we worked really hard on fixing bugs! Overall, Plasma 6.5’s rollout went smoothly. But there were some regressions, and we’ve been working on fixing them as quickly as possible. Hopefully the release of 6.5.2 on Tuesday should have all the important stuff sorted.
Could you please link to the phoronix comments? It would be fun to read 
It’s also directly quoted in the merge request.
Thanks!
I see that now.
For anyone curious, i wrote a post about the framecontrast thing with more details Adding Customizable Frame Contrast to KDE Plasma
I notice someone on the Phoronix post mentioned a 3% frame rate loss in Wayland gaming after the 6.5 release. These kind of losses could be hard to claw back (if they ever are) if not identified as a resulting from a specific change. An automated frame-rate test with logging would be a really useful piece of standard testing allowing devs to look back and quickly identify changes that slowed things down.
“dxdiag”, so nostalgic! How many years has been since I last used that command?
Anyway, I’m noticing a focus on visual polish? It sure does make this look… “kute”. Being able to chose vanishing with the frame likes is “the end of an era” change.
Thanks for the report Nate !
Any news for the bug in frameworks with moving files from samba shares ?
That should be fixed now, but i dont remember the exact bug report
bug 510567 with its fix
Fixed in KDE Frameworks 6.19.1 (out, depending on distro) and 6.20 due mid November.
the clipboard wine fix is listed under the wrong version, according to the bug its fixed on 6.5.2
I’m always proud to be part of a release, even for the small stuff 
Hoping some of my other Overview+Grid goodies can get traction before 6.6.0 release!
Good stuff, indeed. No only for people with visual difficulties but as a simple (and coherent) way to visually detach UI components, improving readability.
Outside, on a sunny day (like we used to have few weeks back), outlines certainly prevent from misclicking (especially checkboxes) when the screen isn’t bright enough.
Maybe an option on System Settings main page, below the theme picker, to toggle it (with sane default constrast, like 60%)?
hello,
great stuff as always. im curious about the integrated menus on title bar not being mentioned in post.
i remember seeing the PR for it and it was moved to plasma 6.6, is that moved or still being worked upon.
Thanks.
Theyre set per colorscheme, so all of them can have different values. Default is 20%, same as it is now without the change. Users who dont care about this wont see difference.
This was most likely an issue where Direct Scanout was not activating in some cases. It was quickly fixed and landed in 6.5.1
USB Portal! I wish that was 6.5 but I’m willing to wait. Now everything I need to work in Flatpak’d VM host can work. Maybe the timing will work out with the Qt/KDE VM app, one can hope!
My mind still will hallucinate the gradient on gtk buttons for a while.
That MR absolutely slayed me. I haven’t laughed that hard in weeks. Thanks Miku.
When using hardware that supports it and version 6.20 of the Linux kernel (…)
Probably a typo here. Either you meant a different kernel version (6.18 is in development right now, so I don’t think you can predict what will happen in 6.20). Or perhaps you meant KDE Frameworks 6.20?