The KDE team recently announced the release of KDE Plasma 5.7.3, a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5. The bugfixes includes important updates: Fixed first time initialization; Speed up loading KCM with FileDialog lazy loading; Don’t try to load layout before kactivitymanagerd starts.
KDE Plasma 5.7.3 Changelog
- Fix launching new instance by Shift+LeftMouse
- Handle restart of Compositor Scene correctly for Wayland client
- Speed up loading KCM with FileDialog lazy loading
- [Kicker] Disable PackageKit integration (aka “Uninstall app”) context menu entry
- Remove dead code
- Anchors in a layout item is always wrong
- Workaround searching lockup
- Fix data validation when creating new pppoe connections
- Fix crash when activating VPN connection
- Update security type from wireless network when merging with connection
- Fix memory leak
- Fix typo in UserManager model roles
- Fallback to asking the license to the package manager
- Disable changelogs while updating
- Let PresentUpdatesPage decide when to request the changelog
- Make sure we clean up resources properly on pk backend
- Don’t fetch the changelogs before setting the resources
- Make sure we’ll get Discover if present
- Fix changes of the filter pattern not being applied immediately
- Loop trough screens only once
- Don’t activate it on release events when a drag was started prior to it
- Fixed tabwidget size calculation from contents
- Always load about-distro in ctor.