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:Notable new featuresPlasma 6.7For each additional time zone you add to the Digital Clock widget, it now also shows how far forward or behind that time zone is compared to yours. (Nate Graham, plasma-workspace MR #6417) After Before If you disable the feature to invoke KRunner by typing on the desktop, instead typing on the desktop invokes “type-ahead”, which allows selecting files by typing the first letter or two of their names. (Guillermo Steren, KDE Bugzilla #427961)You can now reverse the ordering of items in the System Tray widget. (Nathaniel Krebs, KDE Bugzilla #517016)Notable UI improvementsPlasma 6.7Discover now sorts app lists by number of reviews by default, resulting in vastly more relevant results while browsing rather than searching. The old rating-based sorting method is still available, of course. (Nate Graham, discover MR #1274) After Before Discover now filters out non-apps from its home page, preventing death spirals of negativity where people would leave 1-star reviews saying they were broken (not being launchable apps, the “Launch” button wouldn’t work), causing them to move up higher in the list. (Nate Graham, discover MR #1287)System Settings and KWin now consistently use the word “pointer” to refer to the mouse/touchpad pointer. (Philipp Kiemle, plasma-workspace MR #6425 and kwin MR #8982)Screen un-dimming is now faster than dimming, since un-dimming would mean you’re ready to use the system again. (Kai Uwe Broulik, kwin MR #8963)The currently-active task in a grouped task tooltip now has bold text, to help you pick it out. (Christoph Wolk, KDE Bugzilla #516278)Labels for Bluetooth devices in the System Tray widget have been re-arranged so that you can always see the battery level no matter how long the device name is. (Kai Uwe Broulik, KDE Bugzilla #515090)The Global Menu widget’s menu highlights are now rounded consistently with the highlights for other menus. (Akseli Lahtinen, libplasma MR #1459) You can now set a modifier key all on its own to focus a Plasma panel. (Christoph Wolk, plasma-desktop MR #3547)Plasma’s panel configuration window now only offers opacity settings if the active Plasma style supports it. (Filip Fila, KDE Bugzilla #516042)Notable bug fixesPlasma 6.5.6Fixed a bug that distorted the image on certain vertically-oriented monitors while displaying the Plasma Login Manager. (Anton Gobulev, KDE Bugzilla #517409)Plasma 6.6.3Fixed a case where KWin could crash after changing the Zoom effect’s settings in certain specific ways. (Ritchie Frodomar, KDE Bugzilla #517073)Fixed two cases where KWin could crash when misconfigured or given broken content. (Nicolas Fella, KDE Bugzilla #517137 and KDE Bugzilla #517711)Fixed a few cases where KDE’s printing management system could crash due to faulty information from printers about their ink levels. (Mike Noe, print-manager MR #311)The tooltip for the Refresh button in Discover’s Updates section no longer says “F5 (QQuickShortcut(gobbledygook))”, fixing an unexpected side-effect of a recent KDE Frameworks update. (Akseli Lahtinen, KDE Bugzilla #516392)Plasma 6.6.4Fixed an issue that made the “bounce keys” accessibility feature break key repeat in the Brave browser. (Ritchie Frodomar, KDE Bugzilla #513268)In the shortcut conflict dialog opened by System Settings’ Shortcuts page, the “Re-assign” action now works. (Dávid Bácskay-Nagy, KDE Bugzilla #471370)Made the update count in Discover’s notifications more accurate. (Akseli Lahtinen, discover MR #1284)Frameworks 6.25Reverted an innocent-looking change that broke icons for some apps like OBS and Ungoogled Chromium due to an underlying deficiency in the Qt toolkit’s SVG renderer. (Nate Graham, KDE Bugzilla #516007)Notable in performance & technicalPlasma 6.6.4Reduced CPU and GPU load for full-screen windows (also known as “direct scan-out”) on screens without the pointer on them. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #516808)Plasma 6.7Added support for “3D LUTs” in KWin, which reduces resource usage on GPUs that support color pipelines in hardware. (Xaver Hugl, kwin MR #8475)The Networks widget now only fetches network speed information while that information is visible. (Ser Freedman, plasma-nm MR #544)Stopped creating unnecessary OpenGL contexts for apps that don’t use OpenGL, which reduces their memory usage by 10-15 MB or more per app and also speeds up launch times. (Vlad Zahorodnii, plasma-integration MR #209)Qt 6.10.3Fixed an issue that broke HDR support while using the Vulkan renderer on certain hardware. (Joshua Goins, Qt patch #711621)How you can helpKDE has become important in the world, and your time and contributions have helped us get there. As we grow, we need your support to keep KDE sustainable.Would you like to help put together this weekly report? Introduce yourself in the Matrix room and join the team!Beyond that, you can help KDE by directly getting involved in any other projects. Donating time is actually more impactful than donating money. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE — you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to be a programmer, either; many other opportunities exist.You can also help out by making a donation! 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