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KDE Plasma 6.7 is shaping up to be a big release, with the introduction of Plasma Bigscreen along with a new theme system.

The new theme system named Union, is designed to fix up the issues with theme fragmentation on KDE Plasma, bringing a more unified experience overall. With the Plasma 6.7 Beta, the KDE developers are asking people to stress-test it.

Another big exciting addition is Plasma Bigscreen, which is KDE's attempt to make Plasma look good on bigger TVs, HTPCs and set-top boxes. Something that might even be a lot better when docking the Steam Deck and for the Steam Machine / Steam Frame when they release too. Plasma 6.7 will be the first release to have it properly included.

More info on the announcement.

The full release of Plasma 6.7 is due June 16th.

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Pyronick 3 hours ago
Finally, a native 10-foot UX that lets regular Linux GUI apps scale perfectly to the big screen! 🙏

This is going to be massive for docked handhelds, Raspberry Pi-based HTPCs, and SteamOS consoles. Dropping out of Steam into desktop mode on the TV will finally be manageable with just a controller, or even a standard TV remote.

Let's hope this entices Android/Google TV app developers to finally hop over to true Linux.
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No need for Bigscreen, but probably good for others. Somehow funny they put in Kate onto the screenshot. It is not the first piece of software I would think about when using a TV.

I am more interested in Union and may setup a VM to give a look.
Kapellini 2 hours ago
I've had my desktop plugged into a TV and used as a media station a lot lately, real excited for bigscreen! Hopefully the new theme system addresses how finnicky global themes can be, I'd love to use them more without the passive fear that my desktop will become wonky.
akselmo 2 hours ago
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Couple things about union:
- the current style tries to mimic breeze as close as possible
- if you want to tinker with the style, you can find them in `/usr/share/union/css/styles/breeze ` (and can be overidden in `~/.local/share/union/css/styles/breeze`
- currently only qtquick applications get styled, qtwidgets side is still work in progress (so discover will have new style, but dolphin will not)

Any kind of testing is welcome and report bugs in bugs.kde.org :)
Eike 1 hour ago
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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneNo need for Bigscreen, but probably good for others. Somehow funny they put in Kate onto the screenshot. It is not the first piece of software I would think about when using a TV.

I am more interested in Union and may setup a VM to give a look.
Now as you're saying it: Isn't kate being abandoned?
PlayingOnLinuxphone 16 minutes ago
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Quoting: EikeNow as you're saying it: Isn't kate being abandoned?
Don't administer a shock to me. It is one of my most used KDE applications lately. Kate is just not included into KDE Linux itself (per default) as far as I understand this and you still can install it.
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