This Week in Plasma: Plasma 6.5 is nigh and KDE is 29 years old; help us celebrate! - KDE Blogs

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Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!

This week we put the finishing touches on Plasma 6.5, and I think it’s gonna be a pretty darn good release when it comes out in 3 days! So eyes started turning towards features and UI improvements again, and you’ll notice a few of them this week.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blogs.kde.org/2025/10/18/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.5-is-nigh-and-kde-is-29-years-old-help-us-celebrate
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“No more KWallet popups on misconfigured systems”

An FYI on this: I had to rerun my roommates OS on a secondary M.2 I left in the system when I gave it to him cause finally damaged the main one doing so many restarts. I finally realized that it looks like his issue with Wallet popups the first time he launches the browsers after a reboot is something in his browser profile triggering it. So in a nut shell for some with the issue it may not be that the system is misconfigured, but rather something in their browser profile that’s broken.

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I would count that as a misconfigured system. :slight_smile: But yeah, there are a lot of ways it could happen, not all of them under KDE’s control. The change to remember Wi-Fi passwords systemwide pretty much eliminates them all.

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I love changes like that, that fix a bunch of issues all at once

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“Zero very high priority Plasma bugs!”

Sorry, so what priority has (real) restore plasma session? I thought it was “high priority”.

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That’s a feature, not a bug. :slight_smile:

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Hey Nate, I think it would be a good idea to rename KWallet. It implies it’s related to a money wallet, not a password wallet. KPass, KAccess, Kkeys, or something else would be better. IMO.

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Not even close. The browser IS configured right it’s just has something in it’s that obviously broken. I’ll have to give him a copy of my default folder and just add the couple of addons he has that I don’t, and switch my ProtonPass account for his. That should fix the issue.

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Yeah, this is probably going to happen. KWallet itself is now just a thin wrapper around QtKeychain, which means any of the standard password manager apps work with it. Once everything in KDE is ported to talk to QtKeychain, the entire KWallet infrastructure can just… disappear. There’s already a new KDE password management app that works with QtKeychain in progress, and it doesn’t have the word “Wallet” anywhere in sight: Utilities / KeepSecret · GitLab

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Awesome.. thanks

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I tried to bring this up before (didn’t get a response in the matrix channel :confused:) If I wanted to add features to the underlying password infrastructure like passkey support, where would it go? Who should I talk to about this ?

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I don’t know, sorry.

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Application Dashboard widget improvements:

  • an option to configure Favourites width(the amount of programs per row) and Search width
  • an option to configure start and end(right now it starts quite some distance away from the left part of the screen) for Favourites, middle part and right part
  • add and configure animation for typing
  • an option to change the font specifically for this widget
  • add all functions from Krunner. As of right now not every Plasma Search plugin works with Dashboard
  • add an option to choose background, including live background, it’s almost 2026. And make it interactable with mouse movement and icons when they appear(typing or chosen on the right side). Eye candy sells.
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I really love kde Plasma, but, is there any plan to change the maximize, minimize, restore buttons of breeze theme on window decorations settings?, i have noticed that many users install another theme, could be good to have by default buttons like the arc theme or windows type decoration buttons, like the plastik theme but bit more polished :+1:

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The problem has been not so much the lack of ideas for improvements, but a lack of people that actually want to maintain the Application Dashboards and implement such improvements, as this potentially requires complex and time intensive work to be done (I’ve looked at the code myself to see if I can fix a bug, and soon realized that it is at the border of what my brain is capable to understand).

That’s why Nate writes that contributions are very much welcome :slight_smile:

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Marco Martin probably, he worked on splitting KWallet into a SecretService provider and compatibility layer..

There also seems to be work on common infrastructure for passkeys

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I know I will be ignored , as always, but one thing I would like to be changed, is the way KDE handles printers!

I am using KDE in a office for years, and KDE always adds or removes my printers! Setting a default printers doesn’t mean anything, and always discovers new printers!

I am using KDE Neon, not that it matters!

Other than that, a KDE works great! some minor tweaks here and there, the “get new“ buttons mostly works or not for themes , icons etc… using a NTFS external drive (or even accessing the internal one sometimes ) its a mess.

But I could say KDE is miles ahead of Windows or Mac! from time to time, I use either for a few weeks just to see the difference, and its not a pleasure.

The copy-paste , cropping pics, etc…. everything on KDE is superior!

Kudos devs!

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is it possible to run Kde Application Dashboard instead KRunner, like Application expose in Mac OS via keyboard shortcut?

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You are free to change the shortcuts, from the shortcuts section in systemsettings, you can find it through krunner too.

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Yes, but I can’t find the command to start the dashboard. Or should I change it directly from the menu at the bottom? My idea was to have the application launcher on the panel and the dashboard accessible via the keyboard.