This Week in Plasma: Better fractional scaling

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2024-12-14 09:00:19

This week's headliner change is something that I think will make a lot of people happy: better fractional scaling! Vlad and Xaver have been hard at work to snap everything to the screen's pixel grid, with the effect that using a fractional scale factor now results in a lot less blurriness as well as no more gaps between windows and their shadows. You'll see it in the screenshot below (which was taken at 175% scale) but the effects are subtly better everywhere. Really great stuff!

At very high zoom levels, KWin's Zoom effect switches to a sharp pixel-perfect representation and overlays a grid on top of the screen. This makes it easy to see how individual pixels look relative to other ones, which can be useful for artists and designers. (Vlad Zahorodnii, 6.3.0. Link)

KWin now offers you the option to prefer screen color accuracy at the expense of some system performance, should that be your preference (e.g. if you're a digital artist and not a gamer). (Xaver Hugl, 6.3.0. Link)

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