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 set isNotification()/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 plasmazonesd manually for log collection, systemd’s managed instance lost the D-Bus name race and exited. Restart=on-failure retried until StartLimitBurst was exhausted, leaving the unit wedged in failed state. systemctl --user start then silently did nothing until logout. DaemonController::startDaemon now chains reset-failedstart so the settings toggle recovers the unit automatically.