This Week in Plasma: fanciness in Discover and more power efficiency - KDE Blogs

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!

This week includes an interesting blend of improvements. Lots of visual stuff, so get ready for a ton of screenshots and screen recordings!


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blogs.kde.org/2026/04/25/this-week-in-plasma-fanciness-in-discover-and-more-power-efficiency
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Not sure if those discover buttons changing location will be a success…

Since we’re speaking of discover… please someone take a look why auto-updates are not working as they should??? Pleeeeeease!!! :slightly_smiling_face:

Any way… it’s amazing the amount of work people do!!! Congratulations to everyone!!!

So, I just gotta ask: why would you want to duplicate a network connection?

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so you can connect to it twice and double your internet speed for free, of course…!

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My company has 5 VPN endpoints, each of which require MFA and various other config tweaks. Setting each one up separately is a nuisance, so I applaud this feature. Now I can duplicate the connection and only have to change the name and DNS endpoint.

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I think it would be nice if Discover showed when the app you are looking at was last updated :slight_smile: For example, if I looked at Ungoogled Chromium in Discover, it could say “Last Updated: Yesterday” or a date and time!

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Aahh, that makes a lot of sense! I’m a privileged person for not having to put up with network bs, haha - thank you!

Yeah that seems like it would be really handy. I see. Also Welcome!

Is this sarcasm or is it a real thing?

This is a joke, this is sarcasm. I was thinking of these classic Theo Joe comedy videos lol.

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