fuddlesworth/PlasmaZones v2.6.0

PlasmaZones v2.6.0

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PlasmaZones v2.6.0

Added

• Tumbleweed Drift shader: openSUSE Tumbleweed branded zone overlay with animated desert landscape, rolling pinwheel logos, dust devils, sand particles, erosion flow lines, and responsive audio reactivity.
• Neon Venom and Chrome Protocol shaders.
• Voxel-terrain improvements: Multipass with depth buffer, highlight visibility, pulse-flow label effects.
• Shader engine: Depth buffer via MRT, per-channel filter/wrapping modes for multipass buffers, shader presets from registry.
• Autotile JS API enrichment ([#274]): Per-window context, custom parameters, and lifecycle hooks for scripted algorithms.
• Layout ordering settings ([#281]): Configure snapping and tiling cycle order in settings.
• What's New dialog ([#282]): Per-release highlights shown on first launch after update.
• Settings .desktop file for application launchers.

Changed

• Shared config backend ([#276]): Single QSettingsConfigBackend shared across daemon instead of per-component instances.
• Stale config key purging ([#280]): Settings save removes obsolete keys to prevent config pollution.
• ConfigDefaults reference constants ([#278]): Autotile defaults reference Defaults:: constants instead of duplicating values.

Fixed

• Shader parameter defaults: customParams initialized to -1.0 sentinel so fallback checks work on first frame.
• DOF focal depth stability: Multi-sample region averaging prevents jittery depth-of-field.
• Vulkan surface lifecycle: Fixes for surface creation on rapid show/hide, teardown crashes, keep-alive window management, deferred QVulkanInstance creation, scissor state, and swapchain colorspace.
• Rendering pipeline stability: RHI resource release on scene stop, multipass crash guards, SRB resets on label texture resize, texture upload ordering.
• OSD improvements: Navigation self-destruct fix, masterCount wiring, autotile metadata in layout OSD, per-screen dismiss.
• Focus-follows-mouse: No longer focuses through excluded or overlay windows.
• Autotile shortcut sync: Master ratio and count changes from shortcuts now persist to config.
• Settings stability: Single-instance enforcement, daemon toggle desync from broken QML bindings, RenderingBackend read from ungrouped config keys.
• i18n: Correct plural form selection in i18np without .ts files.
• Layout picker: No longer overwrites the global default layout when selecting per-screen.

Installation

Arch Linux (AUR):

yay -S plasmazones  # or plasmazones-bin

Arch Linux (manual):

sudo pacman -U plasmazones-2.6.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

KDE Neon / Debian-based:

sudo dpkg -i plasmazones_2.6.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f  # Install dependencies if needed

Fedora (COPR):

sudo dnf copr enable fuddlesworth/PlasmaZones
sudo dnf install plasmazones

Fedora (manual RPM):

sudo dnf install plasmazones-2.6.0-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm

openSUSE Tumbleweed (manual RPM):

sudo zypper install plasmazones-2.6.0-1.x86_64.rpm

openSUSE Tumbleweed (OBS):

sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ilFrance/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:ilFrance.repo
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install plasmazones

Community-maintained package by ilFrance

Universal Linux (AppDir):
For Fedora Atomic, Steam Deck, or non-root user installation:

tar xzf plasmazones-2.6.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
cd plasmazones-linux-x86_64
./install.sh

NixOS (flake):

# flake.nix inputs
plasmazones.url = "github:fuddlesworth/PlasmaZones";

# configuration.nix
programs.plasmazones.enable = true;

NixOS (standalone):
Download plasmazones.nix from the release assets, then:

# configuration.nix
environment.systemPackages = [
  (pkgs.callPackage ./plasmazones.nix {})
];

Post-Installation

systemctl --user enable --now plasmazones.service
systemsettings kcm_plasmazones