The KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment is out now, bringing some great new features, the return of a classic theme and more UI upgrades.
With this release, a major new feature has arrived that has been years in the making after many requests - you can finally get per-screen virtual desktops. If you want them that is, this change is not forced on you. A nifty little addition and one I'm quite pleased with is the new microphone volume tester available directly in the sound menu.
There's also:
- A light / dark mode toggle.
- Vietnamese lunar calendar.
- Support for the newer "Background Apps" system for the System Tray.
- Further enhancements to printing support.
- Lots of UI upgrades like drag and drop favourites in the Application Launcher, the Discover software store also had some tweaks to the layout to work better.
- HDR improvements.
- General performance improvements.
- Support for many more Wayland protocols and portals.
Another fun one is the return of the Oxygen theme, upgraded for the latest KDE Plasma tooling. This was the default back in the days of KDE 4. On top of that the Air theme has also returned. Plasma 6.7 also marks the inaugural release of Union, Plasma's newer theme system that just uses CSS to let you adjust the look across Plasma, QtQuick apps, and QtWidgets apps.
Still my favourite Linux desktop and it just continues to mature. Plasma looks good, it's customizable and powerful out of the box - everything I could need. Wonderful work.
See more in the release announcement.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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williamjcm 2 hours ago
I think it's the only major gaming related bug that still impacts KDE Plasma for me.
There's still SO MANY BUGS for me. Like last time I tried to use it, I had a permanent undismissable notification about the search crawler indexing my system. No idea if it was actually stuck indexing forever, or if it was a glitchy notification, or what. Others had the same problem and it had been YEARS of reporting on the forums with no patch. Had all kinds of bugs setting up my widgets that I liked. Like sometimes they would just randomly reset themselves for no reason at all and become unusable, so I'd have to go redo all their placements. There was one other major bug that I can't even remember right now, and when I got that one, I decided enough was enough and just jumped ship to gnome. I like the Plasma interface a LOT more, but gnome is just more stable (for me at least) and has none of those bugs. Of course that probably comes from the fact that gnome has a LOT less going on compared to plasma, like no widgets for one. Stuff like that.
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