Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week we closed the door on features for Plasma 6.6, which opened another one for those features to land in 6.7. As a result, several features were merged for Plasma 6.7, including some particularly juicy ones!
By default, sidebars and left edge drawers in Kirigami-using apps now have exactly the width needed to avoid being too wide or too narrow. Some apps still override the default width, and that will need to be un-done now, so expect the weirdly-sized sidebars to get fixed over time, rather than all at once when you upgrade to Frameworks 6.23. (Marco Martin, KDE Bug #505693)
Oh my god yes
I might actually want to use them now instead of setting isMenu:true
Finally that nasty plasma wake up crash was fixed. I’ve encountered it so often on Bazzite on my Deck..
Feature request: KDE panels need a vertical separator line, to group icons, just like Latte Separator used to be. I think this is one of those basic features which has to be available out of the box.
System Monitor now lets you set the priority of processes graphically, just like the older KSysGuard app did.
Has actual effect on CPU share been tested?
AFAIK, the nice lever is completely broken off on a modern system. Most every “app” is in its own cgroup, so PID nice values only work relative to other process of the same program, so to do it for real you need to walk up the cgroup hierarchy and set cpu.weight at each level where contending siblings might exist. And even before that, CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP kernels were making it ineffectual.
I have at least one shell script doing this ludicrous dance for “yes-low-priority-and-i-really-mean-it”:
systemd-run \
--user --pty --same-dir --wait --collect --send-sighup \
--nice=19 \
--property=CPUWeight=1 \
--property=CPUSchedulingPolicy=idle \
"$@"
Will the notorious clipboard-pasting issue be addressed soon?
427214 – Add ability to paste Klipper’s contents on selection