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How much stuff did you put in your trash?! 
I find the text for Legacy X11 Apps really hard to understand, so I filled a bug about it: 504395 – Text about X snooping is hard to understand
Maybe I am dumb but then in general users are dumb :-).
“Trash widgets now show a little busy spinner while being emptied”
Well, I hope in the future the animation is improved to show the trash rotating upside down and things falling out of it. Or bags rising from inside it and going away to the sides hahaha
~/kde/build and ~/kde/usr. 
I exercise the trash functionality quite heavily while cleaning up old dev environment files for my weekly clean builds.
Then I hope you have a vested interest in making trashing not be super slow now
It’s deleting over a million small files, so it doesn’t feel thaaaaat slow to me TBH.
clipboard now feature the “Edit” button first, since it’s likely to be the one you want to use most often.
That would be “paste”!
But paste should also be the invoked action when we left-click an item instead of just selecting it!
Comics widget
Calvin and Hobbes
Great to see that good taste still exists in the world ahahah
I’m no designer myself, but I noticed in a couple of different spots that new page and dialog designs really seem to strike a nice balance - dense enough to avoid feeling like there’s wasted space in the window, but not so much that it looks crowded:
I like KDE for having nice people like you sir. Thank you for your weekly updates. I appreciate and it is always a good read.
Feature wise everything is so perfect for me already now I like a little more fancy UI like macos.
Eh, I might have focus on a different window than the one I want to paste into, so I’d rather do the pasting manually after bringing it to the top of the clipboard.
There could always be a button for that case or even a setting to allow choosing the default action!
I wouldn’t mind to have to set paste as default in every installation! if there was such option…
still, usually, paste is the most common action (and all other DE, afaik, default to it)
Anyone know if this new calibration gizmo is useful (or can be easily made useful) with non-HDR setups?
It’s only useful for HDR displays. What were you hoping to use it for on SDR displays?
Um, calibration? Crushing blacks and blowing-out whites due to miscalibration are pathologies non-exclusive to HDR panels. Even CRTs might need a little love. 
Well, that’s not what the HDR calibration page does - it uses a neat trick for figuring out the monitor’s maximum brightness, and doesn’t allow you to customize brightness curves or anything like that.
The ability to configure gamma values and per-channel rgb factors is planned for Plasma 6.5. I’m not sure that there’s any test images that are as nice as what we can do for HDR, so any help on what’s expected there would be good.
Always look forward to these! Plasma just keeps getting smoother with each update. Really liking the pace of improvements lately.
