This Week in Plasma: Easier Microphone Sensitivity Adjustment - KDE Blogs

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!

This week saw a large variety of improvements in fields as diverse as better support for multi-screen and multi-GPU setups, support for new portals, performance improvements, UI improvements, crash fixes, and more! Lots to get excited about this week:


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/28/this-week-in-plasma-easier-microphone-sensitivity-adjustment
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The voice recording (in the video) should become the default new system sound for all KDE notifications: “la la la la La La”
Where can I submit an MR for this?

Also why is there no recording save button? such musical talents should not go to waste.

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I would love to see one thing I’m really hoping it comes a redesign for the notification widget and also for the ux of notifications widgets

:skull_and_crossbones::skull_and_crossbones::skull_and_crossbones:

AmogOS

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Lmao, it would go hard as a default speaker test sound.

Speaking of which… we have mic testing there now apparently, but for speaker testing we still have to open up the full settings. I guess that would make a second nice addition if a sub-panel for that was added as well.

Also “Test” in the settings has no ellipsis at the end, I think that’d be better in the UI, as “Test…” makes the button occupy more space and leaves less for the volume slider.

Conversely, I hope mic testing is also added to settings just like speaker testing.

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@ngraham KWin has had a draft implementation for session management for almost a year, just “hidden” via environment variable.

Vlad’s new MR is making it “official” (final namespace name) and enabled by default :slight_smile:
A conclusion of the work he had started as far back as 2022 :flexed_biceps:

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What about notifications?

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@broulik, I’d like for the organisation to be more like a QTreeView, with setRootIsDecorated(true). Currently, the indentation is a little difficult to follow, and I’d be able to see more information if it were a table, rater than a list.