KDE Plasma 6.7 out with per-screen virtual desktops, Wayland upgrades, better support for background apps

And still no way to disable built-in drawing tablet support to allow using official or other drivers...

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!

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 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.

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.

don't say it don't think it

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!"

Quoting: JarmerI 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.

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).

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.

Finally, the team put a great deal of work into optimization, resulting in better performance and lower power usage for CPU-rendered apps, many full-screen windows, and integrated Intel GPUs.

I have to test this on my laptop, simply watching a 1080p60 video puts the GPU usage on %60. Do you have any recommendations for watching local video files with best battery life on Intel HD?
Also I already use Oxygen, I will try Air too

Quoting: mr-victory

Finally, the team put a great deal of work into optimization, resulting in better performance and lower power usage for CPU-rendered apps, many full-screen windows, and integrated Intel GPUs.

I have to test this on my laptop, simply watching a 1080p60 video puts the GPU usage on %60. Do you have any recommendations for watching local video files with best battery life on Intel HD?
Also I already use Oxygen, I will try Air too

This would probably depend on the codecs supported by (i)GPU and driver, if the player uses the Codec (I'd trust VLC?) and what the video is actually encoded in of course.

Quoting: EikeThis would probably depend on the codecs supported by (i)GPU and driver, if the player uses the Codec (I'd trust VLC?) and what the video is actually encoded in of course.

iGPU can decode h.264 and the predecessor of that so no vp9, av1 etc. So I force h.264 on youtube which makes a massive difference. What I'm concerned about is the GPU 3D usage: say on smplayer on the same video it sits at %18 but smplayer can't do hardware accelerated decoding while on VLC 4 the 3D GPU usage is %50 while hardware decoding is used which is not 3D but its own category Video. Or when the video is paused on VLC the GPU usage is %10 while it should be < %1 because, well, the video is paused lol.
Part of the blame goes to me for using development version of VLC just because it has a nicer UI.