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Title: KDE Calls Microsoft's Copilot Key 'Dumb', Will Let You Remap It Soon

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/10/0314...

Plasma 6.4.5 is coming September 9th, reports Neowin. But they also report
that the KDE team is already focusing on other upcoming release: Starting
with KDE Frameworks, KDE's collection of foundational libraries, version 6.18
promises to let you do something with that "dumb" Microsoft Copilot key found
on many new laptops. The developers will soon allow you to set up keyboard
shortcuts using this new key, and the team plans to let you remap it to
another key in the future. If you're curious, one user on KDE's bug tracker
noted that on GNOME, the key combination shows up as "Meta+Shift+Touchpad
Disable" and is fully remappable... When you try to install a Flatpak from a
website like Flathub in Plasma 6.5 [coming in October], Discover now has
proper support for flatpak+https:// URLs, so it opens automatically. 6.5 is
also bringing a much stricter window activation policy on Wayland to stop
applications from rudely stealing your focus. And now, when you mute your
microphone with a shortcut, the "Mute Microphone" button will mute all input
sources, not just the active one. Since Firefox does not block the system
from sleeping during a download, the Plasma Browser Integration extension for
Firefox has gotten an update to handle that job itself.

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