This collects all the tasks we need to carry out to successfully announce Plasma 5.27.
## Dates
Feature freeze: 5 Jan.
Beta: 19 Jan.
Release day: 14 Feb.
## To-do
[] Collect stuff
[] Think up a slogan
[] Decide which features and advantages to focus on
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[] Get new wallpaper
[] Write announcement
[] Design and create announcement page
[] Create video
[] Write/Design social media posts
### Topics
* "With Hebrew calendar added to Plasma, Plasma is now blessed by mysterious powerful forces. Hope the feature can be announced in the 5.27 release announcement because it seems many people still don't know alternate calendar is available in Plasma." https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/313
#### Nate's blog
Moving backwards from last. Finished 9/Dec.
* Wallpaper creators can now define a custom accent color for their wallpaper that will be automatically used when the user is using the “Wallpaper from accent color” feature, rather than letting the system calculate an accent color automatically https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/2084
* You can now enter Do Not Disturb mode using the command line by running `kde-inhibit --notifications` https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kde-cli-tools/-/merge_requests/45
* KWin now tries its best to force the smoothest animations by default (the balance of smoothness vs latency is user-configurable) which improves performance on integrated Intel GPUs in the Plasma Wayland session https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/3420
* System Settings’ Shortcuts and Flatpak Permissions pages now use our more modern frameless style https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/1341 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/flatpak-kcm/-/merge_requests/18
* You can now show the Hebrew Calendar in your Digital Clock popup’s calendar if you want https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463869
* Discover now helps you out when you do a search in a category page for something not in that category https://bugs.kde.org/462809
* When using a “Picture of the Day” wallpaper, there’s now a little warning for providers that might use NSFW images as their pictures of the day https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399126
* the “Add Command” entry dialog on the Shortcuts page now has a button you can use to find a script file on disk, so you don’t need to manually type its path https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/1325
* The Display Configuration widget now appears in the System Tray by default–inactive when you only have one screen or you have a multi-monitor desktop setup, and active when you have a laptop with one or more external screens connected. This makes it easier to quickly change those screens’ settings if needed https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kscreen/-/merge_requests/172 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kscreen/-/merge_requests/173
* In the Media Player widget, you can now swipe up/down to change the volume, and left/right to change the playback position https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/2438
* System Settings’ Shortcuts page now features a significantly more obvious and useful UI for adding custom commands! https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/1253
* System Settings’ Launch Feedback page is no more, and everything on it has been moved into a popup accessible from the Cursors page, with an actual explanation of what the settings do https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/2466 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/531 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/2471#note_588716
* The “Highlight Changed Settings” button that currently lives on a footer in the System Settings sidebar has been moved to the hamburger menu to streamline the UI https://invent.kde.org/plasma/systemsettings/-/merge_requests/177
* When pasting links into a Notes widget using the standard Paste action, they are now pasted as clickable links by default. And if you want to remove formatting, there’s a new context menu item for that too! https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/303 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/310
* You can now move a single window to another activity using the titlebar context menu https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440036
* While in Touch Mode, the global Edit Mode toolbar now lets you open the full desktop context menu too, so nothing in there is ever totally inaccessible when using a touch device https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/1313 https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-framework/-/merge_requests/674
* Info Center can now show you [OpenCL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL) info on its own new dedicated page, if you have the clinfo utility installed https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kinfocenter/-/merge_requests/124
* In the Plasma Wayland session, KWin now sends along pen tilt and rotation events to apps https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/3364
* The way KRunner displays information about time zones has been substantially improved, making it easier to parse the output, and fixing a couple of bugs https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/292
* It’s now possible to configure the Color Picker widget to display up to 9 color preview dots for quick use (in case you didn’t know, you can drag colors out of them and onto something else), or none at all if you don’t use them because you use the widget as just a way to get color code values into your clipboard https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/293
* You can now reverse the ordering of tasks in the Plasma Task Manager widget on vertical panels, to complement existing support on horizontal panels https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/1301
* Discover now has a SteamOS backend, so it can perform system updates on Steam Deck devices from within desktop mode https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/merge_requests/410
* The Bluetooth widget’s tooltip now shows the battery status for any connected device that are able to report battery information https://invent.kde.org/plasma/bluedevil/-/merge_requests/105
* The Battery and Brightness and Media Player widgets’ tooltips now indicate that you can do something by scrolling over them. This should be all of them! https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/537f50a397eee64718806686d5a5045bd1112eab https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/2414
* The System Tray config window’s list of applets has been made fully keyboard-navigable and accessible https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434432...
* **Tiling system** : KWin got a very cool new feature this week: a built-in advanced tiling system that you can use to set up custom tile layouts and resize multiple adjacent windows at a time by dragging on the gaps between them! This feature is still in its infancy and not designed to completely replicate the workflow of a tiling window manager. But we expect it to grow and advance over time, and also the new APIs added for it should benefit 3rd-party tiling scripts that do want to let you turn KWin into a tiling window manager. Thanks very much to Marco Martin for contributing this work, which will be released in Plasma 5.27! https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/2560 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438788
* You can now drag an image onto the Color Picker widget to make it calculate the average color for that image and store it in its list of stored colors https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/249
* When a KRunner search matches nothing, you’ll now be given the opportunity to do a web search for the search term https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/2311
* Gained support for the Global Shortcuts portal, which allows apps on Wayland to offer a standardized user interface for setting and editing global shortcuts https://invent.kde.org/plasma/xdg-desktop-portal-kde/-/merge_requests/80
* There’s now a new “Touchscreen” page in System Settings that lets you disable touchscreens and choose which physical screen their input gets mapped to https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/1227
* You can now autostart apps multiple times (e.g. to launch multiple instances of it) and it also shows you the paths where autostarted scripts live https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/1782
* You can now configure Folder View to show hidden files if you want https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365792
* System Settings’ Drawing ‘Tablet’ page now lets you map physical buttons on your drawing tablet’s pen to keyboard shortcuts https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/1229
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