This collects all the tasks we need to carry out to successfully announce Plasma 5.23

Dates

• 5/10/2021 Text to translators
• 14/10/2021 Release

TODO

• Get a new wall paper
• Collect noteworthy stories and new features from devs
• Write announcement
• Make video

Changes

Breeze:

• redesigned buttons, menu items, checkboxes, radio buttons, sliders, scrollbar and spinboxes
• scrollbars and spinboxes are bigger and therefore easier to use with touch
• gear loading spinner throughout Plasma and KDE apps
• highlight effect for opened widgets touches the panel edge
• widgets on the desktop are blurred

Kickoff:

• gigantic code overhaul
• many bugs fixed
• improved performance and accessibility
• choose whether to use a list or a grid for all apps view
• pin button
• pressing-and-holding with a finger opens the context menu
• configurable power/session action buttons

Other Widgets:

• entering tablet mode makes System Tray icons bigger
• copy notifications text with the Ctrl+C keyboard shortcut
• Global Menu applet has a more menu-like appearance
• power-profiles: "power-saver", "balanced" and "performance"
• change the manual speed setting for wired Ethernet connections to more values and disable IPv6
• more currently-connected Network details
• System Monitor and sensor widgets can display load averages
• clipboard by default remembers 20 items and ignores selections that you did not explicitly copy
• Audio Volume applet distinguishes between applications that are currently playing or recording audio

System Settings:

• override a color scheme's accent color in Colors page
• Feedback page shows you a history of data that optionally has been sent to KDE
• set the status of your Bluetooth adapter on login (on/off/remember)
• Login Screen page’s synchronization feature now syncs your screen arrangement
• applying Display settings shows a timer to revert if you messed up
• sorted screen refresh rates list
• Night Color page now tells you when you’re about to undertake an action that will perform geolocation using a 3rd-party service
• Delete selected items in the Clipboard applet’s popup by pressing the Delete key on the keyboard

Discover:

• faster launch speed
• app install button tells you the name of the source

Wayland:

• app launch feedback cursor
• screen rotation animation
• System Tray notifies you when something is recording the screen and lets you cancel it
• realtime gestures that follow your fingers
• [middle-click-paste between native Wayland and XWayland apps]
• In the Plasma Wayland session, it is now possible to adjust the Intel GPU driver’s Broadcast RGB settings
• You can now drag-and-drop stuff between native Wayland and XWayland apps!
• It’s now possible to change the screen resolution when run in a virtual machine
• Virtual desktops are now remembered on a per-activity basis
• The Task Manager now shows feedback on app icons when you click on them to launch apps.
• the cursor now shows animated icon feedback when launching apps

Other:

• rewritten present windows effect
• multi-screen layouts are now retained across X11 and Wayland sessions
• numerous crash/hang fixes
• DrKonqi warns you when an app is unmaintained
• question mark button in the titlebar is hidden by default for dialogs and System Settings
• windows no longer become transparent when moving or resizing them
• passwordless accounts without autologin show a simple login button
• The Media Player widget now always displays the album art and its blurred background at the same time
• The Networks applet now supports additional authentication settings/protocols/requirements for OpenVPN connections