This Week in Plasma: Time Zone Offsets and Type-Ahead on the Desktop - KDE Blogs

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!

This week several new features landed, in addition to a number of user interface improvements and some nice performance improvements and bug fixes. Check ‘em out:


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/21/this-week-in-plasma-time-zone-offsets-and-type-ahead-on-the-desktop
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The corner rounding will continue until morale improves

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If you only knew the power of the arc side…

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You win. You get to decide the next corner radius value in the annual “this corner radius is now trendy”-conference.

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:laughing: [Apparently this has to rounded to at least 15 characters]

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I beg you, don’t fall for the “round round everything” :frowning:

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We already did; this work is simply bringing consistency to the things that were already rounded or that were always intended to be rounded.

If it helps your anxiety, I don’t think we plan to make everything rounder than the current 5px by default. :slight_smile:

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I like the round corners, it makes the interface feel more humane to me than a brutalist design with hard edges and corners.

But who is this dedicated Mike Noe guy? So much appreciation and gratitude goes out to him for refining the printing subsystem. Nothing worse than having to print something on someone’s new Kubuntu setup and then running into print bug. This is so needed, thank you.

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Patience, young padawan. When Union is out, you are able to make everything sharp again.

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A bit round is OK-ish. Simply going overboard with it (Material, LiquidPoo; Jetbrains Islands theme or new Firefox mockup) is not :wink:

Yes, I know :heart:

Union will probably take years to mature…

That said, 5 px rounding lies perfectly in the sweet zone.

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I love round corners. It makes it feel more inviting and cosy, more human-friendly. Sharp corners make me think of things that sting and cut. So yeah, keep rounding!

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