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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 1 day ago
And still no way to disable built-in drawing tablet support to allow using official or other drivers...
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I keep considering moving to KDE but I've become addicted to Hyprland's Tiling Window Manager system since I made the initial jump to Linux (despite the compatibility issues). Maybe some day!
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I'm still waiting for this to be fixed: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461063
I think it's the only major gaming related bug that still impacts KDE Plasma for me.
I think it's the only major gaming related bug that still impacts KDE Plasma for me.
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I really wish the kde team would do a major point release with ZERO new features and just patch like a thousand bugs.
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.
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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I've certainly been excited for this release, and will be turning on the per-screen desktops. The only other thing I could wish for out of 6.7 was for it to release on the 6th of July.
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ScottCarammell 1 day ago
don't say it don't think it
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KDEs really been on a roll the last few years, while Windows is running backwards! To quote the two minute papers guy (no idea how to write his name): "What a time to be alive!"
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Quoting: JarmerI really wish the kde team would do a major point release with ZERO new features and just patch like a thousand bugs.Posts like this make me wonder at how people use their desktops compared to me. Over the years, I've tried Gnome2 (loved it), Cinnamon (loved it), Gnome 3 (loved it.. once I added three or four extensions), XFCe (briefly, but loved it) and Plasma (loved it and my current choice for the past couple of years).
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.
No bugs. Ever. Unless you count minor, non-repeatable crashes, usually when setting up a new widget/extension... which doesn't happen often.
How are people finding so many bugs that they feel compelled to switch desktop? Wild.
I could use any desktop at all and be happy enough. It just so happens that Plasma makes me happiest of all. So much so that I donate via the e.V. scheme. Great to see the strength of development.
Also, big shout out to Nate Graham's constant updates to the KDE Blogs (https://blogs.kde.org/) on changes and the constant bug fixing that goes into Plasma.
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