This Week in Plasma: more app permission configuration; pre-Akademy edition! - KDE Blogs

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!

This week, KDE contributors from around the world are traveling to Akademy, KDE’s annual conference. I myself am on a train right now as I write these words (though hopefully not still there when you read them), on my way to meet with fellow KDE people for a week of working, planning, and social bond strengthening! Expect a light report next Saturday, or none at all.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blogs.kde.org/2025/09/05/this-week-in-plasma-more-app-permission-configuration-pre-akademy-edition
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Application Permissions page is very neat, congratz to David (and Nate for feedback). Managing app permissions hasn’t been very straightforward in KDE so far, so it’s a very welcoming addition.

Good Akademy to all.

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Enjoy Berlin, Germany’s most fascinating city (IMO, and I’m not from Berlin).

Thank you all for your hard work, Plasma is a reliable work horse, and I mean to say this in the most sincere way. Probably time to make a donation once again :slight_smile: just like everybody else should

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Added support for “Underlays”, which promise to improve efficiency in GPUs that support it. (Xaver Hugl, link)

Any idea which Hardware is concerned ?

I imagine Opensource drivers (radv/intel), #8076 seems to imply this only concerns AMD as of now.

All the GPU work in plasm is paying off. Before my laptop with nvidia gpu could never scroll a webpage completly smoothly. But recently I noticed that there are no hiccups anymore. The only hiccup I notice is when you use the 4 finger gesture to see the desktop overview. The animation skips the first part. But this is probably not a GPU issue, but has more to do with the animation.

Congrats to all the developers that work on improving the foundation of the desktop! Your work definitely doesn’t go unnoticed!

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