Bugs will continue to be crushed at full speed this week! We quickly handled a number of bugs across the software stack, including the infamous login sound bug, some very important and long-standing issues with extended attributes, and improved quality of life for Plasma Wayland sessions.
But we were also able to add some great new features that you would like. 
Check it all out:
new function
There is a new “Breeze Twilight” global theme: Plasma looks dark and apps look bright (Dominic Hayes, Plasma 5.21).
Added option to change the first day of the week in the digital clock calendar pop-up (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.21)
KWin’s desktop grid effects can now be configured to activate the desktop only on click instead of activating both the desktop and the window when the window is clicked (Konstantinos Smanis, Plasma 5.21). )
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Konsole’s Manage Profiles… menu item can now be moved to the correct location (Carlos Alves, Konsole 20.08.3)
In Konsole’s context menu, after right-clicking on different types, the right number of “Open With…” and “Copy Location” menu items are now displayed in the right place (Carlos Alves, Konsole 20.08). .3
Middle-clicking on any tab in Okular’s sidebar tabbar no longer closes one of the open documents (Albert Astals Cid, Okular 1.11.3)
Dolphin’s background daemon mode no longer triggers session restore. This fixes an issue where Dolphin would always open when logging in to Fedora (I: Nate Graham, Dolphin 20.12).
Okular command line --find Parameters now work correctly when you enter non-Latin characters (Albert Astals Cid, Okular 1.11.3)
Closing an open tab in Okular no longer causes the Ctrl + Tab shortcut used for tab navigation to stop working (Albert Astals Cid, Okular 20.12).
Plasma Wayland sessions no longer require you to manually set environment variables in order to properly use your own driver features to create NVIDIA GPUs. If this sounds like a big deal, yes! (Vlad Zahorodnii and Xaver Hugl, Plasma 5.20.2)
Placing the cursor on a Task Manager item to view a window preview when PipeWire is not installed no longer crashes the Plasma Wayland session (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.20.2)
Plasma no longer crashes when certain apps do strange things with PID (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.20.2)
People who turn on the login sound will play again at login as expected (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.20.2)
Fixed tons and tons of recent visual regressions in the system tray. The highlight effect of the active system tray item is large enough to fit perfectly on the item’s icon. The very thick panel tray icon is again centered on the panel. Multiple row / column layouts no longer overlap with adjacent Panel widgets. For certain multi-row / column layouts (Konrad Materka, Plasma 5.20.2), the expander arrow no longer eats up clicks.
In Wayland sessions, dragging files and icons no longer shows broken, clipped, or pixelated thumbnails (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.20.2)
[システム設定のユーザー]The page can now apply the same changes to multiple profile fields as needed (Alexander Potashev, Plasma 5.20.2).
The lock screen volume and brightness OSDs again show the correct values (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.20.2).
In Wallpaper Chooser view, the “Get New Plugins …” button no longer overlaps with the adjacent combo box (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.20.2)
When I move the cursor out of the widget explorer, the highlighting effect of the selection disappears correctly (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.20.2)
KSysGuard no longer leaks large amounts of memory when left open for extended periods of time (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.20.3)
The Plasma Icon applet pointing to the location instead of the application works correctly again (I: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.20.3)
In Plasma Wayland sessions, the “Sliding Popups” effect used for various panel widgets no longer causes minor visual glitches (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.20.3).
Discover no longer opens automatically when you log in. This is useless (I: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.20.3)
The “Highlight changed settings” feature in the system settings now remembers whether it is on or off when the system settings are closed and reopened (Benjamin Port, Plasma 5.20.3).
[システム設定]of[変更された設定を強調表示]Double-clicking a button turns it on and off as expected (Benjamin Port, Plasma 5.20.3) instead of leaving it inconsistent on the second click.
System tray items for certain Electron apps that aren’t properly titled are now at least visible something Sanity in the text (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.20.3)
Dragging something from the XWayland app to the Wayland app no longer causes the Plasma Wayland session to crash (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.21)
Plasma Wayland sessions no longer crash when dragging icons from kickoff to Konsole (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.21)
In the Plasma Wayland session, pasting the copied text within the XWayland app works again (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.21).
In a Plasma Wayland session, dragging something in Firefox no longer causes the cursor to move and the gravy hand to disappear forever (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.20.1).
Reduced the amount of CPU resources KWin uses to draw hardware-accelerated cursors (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.21)
KWin no longer tries to use the connected VR headset as a separate screen (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 5.21)
The window minimization animation no longer glitches a bit when using a multi-monitor setup when the app is playing video on a rotated monitor (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.21)
The KIO library now fully supports preserving extended attributes during common file operations (Gleb Popov, Frameworks 5.76).
In a Wayland session, KRunner no longer consumes unnecessary CPU resources when viewed, but nothing seems to be happening (Fabian Vogt, Frameworks 5.76)
Hovering the mouse over various items in the file open / save dialog while the preview panel is open now always updates the preview correctly (Méven Car, Frameworks 5.76).
Improved user interface
The two methods of maximizing split views in Konsole now work the same way (Carlos Alves, Konsole 20.08.3).
Screenshots taken with Spectacle now appear in the list of recent documents in the Places panel that appear in Dolphin, the File dialog, and various other software (MévenCar, Spectacle 20.08.3).
[システム設定のオンラインアカウント]On the page, errors when connecting to an external account are now displayed in the UI instead of being silently ignored (Nicolas Fella, kaccounts-integration 20.12)
Konsole tab bar[新しいタブ]A tooltip has been added to the button (Carlos Alves, Konsole 20.12)
Window rules can now place windows with negative X and Y values if really needed (Ismael Asensio, Plasma 5.20.2).
Files and folders on the desktop can now be properly manipulated using the touch screen, such as a long press to emulate a right click (Steffen Hartlieb, Plasma 5.21).
Uninstalled apps no longer appear so prominent in KRunner search results (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.21)
The system-configured audio volume has a new layout that is much simpler and eliminates the need for multi-tab views (Nicolas Fella, Plasma 5.21).
[システム設定]Of the window[ルール]On the page[変更された設定を強調表示]Features are now supported (Ismael Asensio, Plasma 5.21)
The “Highlight changed settings” feature is now fully supported on the System Settings task switcher, window behavior, and general behavior pages (Cyril Rossi, Plasma 5.21).
When I double-click to open a file or folder using this setting, the icon view in the system settings now opens the page with a single click instead of a double click (I: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.21).
The context menu for file-based notifications now includes a “Move to Trash” item in case you suddenly find that you no longer need a file (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.21).
The square bracket matching feature in Kate, KDevelop, and other KText Editor-based apps now also matches angle brackets (Milian Wolff, Frameworks 5.76).
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