Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week we reached that part of every Plasma release cycle where the bug fixes and polish for the upcoming release are still coming in hot and heavy, but people have also started to land their changes for the next release. So there’s a bit of both here!
Another fantastic update!
Just a thought, since Air/Oxygen are light/dark counterparts, wouldn’t it make sense to name them e.g. Oxygen Light/Oxygen Dark for consistency with Breeze?
They’re not counterparts but two distinct themes. Oxygen was in the original KDE 4.0 whereas Air was introduced as a new theme in 4.3 with Oxygen being kept as an alternative but not “dark counterpart” . The two have distinct styles.
Okay thanks for the clarification. Article is not totally clear on that IMO.
Sorry about that. Slightly rephrased it; hopefully it’s clearer now!
No problemo and thanks for the reword! 
X# very high priority Plasma bugs (up from x# last week). Current list of bugs
X# 15-minute Plasma bugs (up from x# last week). Current list of bugs
Why is this set of links no longer included in the This Week in Plasma posts? I’ve always found it informative and interesting. It’s like pulling the curtain back to see a little bit of the inner workings of the development process. If you don’t want to show the exact number in the posts, I understand. The number of bugs is not related to the quality of the software, despite what certain loud people on Internet forums broadcast. I would appreciate if the links were included in the posts.
High priority Plasma bugs. Current list of bugs
15-minute Plasma bugs. Current list of bugs
Thank you for all of your hard work. I, and many others, deeply appreciate it.
I removed it because I felt it was becoming misleading.
The number would increase as a result of us re-categorizing existing bug reports to prioritize them for fixing, and this would look from the outside like the software getting buggier. But the reverse was happening: the number increasing was a visible implementation detail of an initiative to make Plasma less buggy!
For that reason, I didn’t think it was a good idea to keep surfacing this information. Anyone who understands all of this and wants to look it up of course still can, though!