{"id":181241,"date":"2025-08-05T18:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/?p=181241"},"modified":"2025-08-05T18:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:55:14","slug":"kde-plasma-6-4-4-desktop-environment-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/kde-plasma-6-4-4-desktop-environment-released\/","title":{"rendered":"KDE Plasma 6.4.4 Desktop Environment Released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over three weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/kde-plasma-6-4-3-desktop-environment-released\/\">Plasma 6.4.3 was released<\/a>, the KDE team rolled out version 6.4.4 as the fourth bugfix update to the <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/kde-plasma-6-4-desktop-environment-released\/\">6.4 series<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This release is all about polish and reliability, addressing some crash fixes and UI quirks. Some of the standout fixes include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Notifications triggered during Do Not Disturb mode now correctly stay in history instead of vanishing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>KWin (Plasma\u2019s window manager) now properly sets the initial zoom level for the magnifier plugin, so no more awkward first-time scaling issues.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>System Monitor\u2019s network plugin no longer jumps the gun by announcing data for processes that aren\u2019t fully loaded yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the hood, the more noticeable improvements include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Discover, KDE\u2019s software center, now handles Flatpak remote ordering more reliably and stops showing outdated beta app messages where they don\u2019t belong.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>KWin\u2019s accessibility features got a boost, ensuring screen readers properly receive modifier key presses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Plasma Desktop folder view saw multiple fixes, including better drag-and-drop behavior on scrollable desktops and more stable panel widget editing for right-to-left languages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/kde.org\/announcements\/plasma\/6\/6.4.4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">release announcement<\/a> or visit KDE Plasma 6.4.4\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/kde.org\/announcements\/changelogs\/plasma\/6\/6.4.3-6.4.4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full changelog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, if you\u2019re using a rolling release distro, keep an eye on your distribution\u2019s repositories\u2014version 6.4.4 is expected to land there in the coming days or weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KDE Plasma 6.4.4 fixes crashes in KWin, improves System Monitor behavior, and refines Flatpak handling in Discover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":181244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[1254,6380],"class_list":["post-181241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","category-news","tag-kde","tag-plasma-6-4"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}