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This Week in Plasma: multiple major Wayland and UI features

blogs.kde.org This Week in Plasma: multiple major Wayland and UI features

Welcome to a new issue of “This Week in Plasma”! Every week we cover the highlights of what's happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.

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Kde and plasma are so insanely great, and they just keep getting better.

Hopefully Wayland will work with my GTX 1050.... (please)

Still waiting on reliable headless KDE wayland remote sessions to make the jump to Plasma.

This looks so good!
I'm happy about the dedicated animations settings page. It would be great, however, if we could adjust the animation speed of each one individually, though.

After strolling through blogs and forums, I still can't tell what I'm missing by sticking with SDDM+X11 versus SDDM+Wayland on Kubuntu 24.04 LTS (--minimal-install, so no snap for me).

These are my specs:

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OS: Kubuntu trixie/sid (noble) x86_64
Kernel: 6.8.0-58-generic
Uptime: 1 hour, 12 mins
Packages: 2 (npm), 2550 (dpkg), 28 (flatpak-system)
Shell: bash 5.2.21
Resolution: 1920x1080 @ 164.92Hz
DE: Plasma 5.27.12 [KF5 5.115.0] [Qt 5.15.13] (x11)
WM: KWin
Theme: klassy [KDE/Qt], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: BeautySolar [KDE/Qt/GTK2/3]
Cursor: breeze_cursors [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
Terminal Font: Noto Mono 12
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (32) @ 3.4GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Memory: 4.15 GiB / 31.24 GiB (13%)
Network: Wifi
Bluetooth: Intel Corp. AX200
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 5.17 (03/18/2024)

Sun Apr 27 13:03:03 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.133.07             Driver Version: 570.133.07     CUDA Version: 12.8     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090        Off |   00000000:0A:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   47C    P0             43W /  350W |     714MiB /  24576MiB |      2%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+