PlasmaZones 2.8.5
2 changes, released April 10, 2026.
Fixed
- Master window balloons to 100% on notifications (#271): KWin transiently flipped a tiled window’s
isMinimized()state to true and back within ~1-2ms whenever a plasmashell notification popup rearranged stacking. The autotile engine recalculated with N-1 windows, tiling the surviving master to the full screen, before unfloating ~ms later. Users saw the master briefly balloon to 100% on every notification. In the worst reported log, the stack window cycled float/unfloat 34 times in a single day with no user interaction. Fixed with two layers of defense: (1) a class-based filter for Plasma shell layer-shell surfaces (plasmashell,plasma.emojier,plasma.notifications,krunner) that don’t reliably setisNotification()/isPopupWindow()on Wayland, removing 508 stray tracking events a day, and (2) a 75ms debounce on the minimize→float commit that coalesces spurious minimize/unminimize cycles to zero D-Bus calls. Real user minimizes always last longer than 75ms so they commit normally. - Cannot re-enable PlasmaZones from settings after killing a terminal-run daemon (#271): When users ran
plasmazonesdmanually for log collection, systemd’s managed instance lost the D-Bus name race and exited.Restart=on-failureretried untilStartLimitBurstwas exhausted, leaving the unit wedged infailedstate.systemctl --user startthen silently did nothing until logout.DaemonController::startDaemonnow chainsreset-failed→startso the settings toggle recovers the unit automatically.