KDE Plasma 6.7 released
51 points by w8l
51 points by w8l
After 21 years, hopefully it will have been worth the wait… per-screen virtual desktops have finally arrived!
As a long-time Gnome user, I’ll be switching for this!
When it comes to Union, like the site says, it's still experimental. But dont let that dissuade you from trying it! Let us know any bugs regarding it and we'll hop on fixing them.
Currently its only for QtQuick apps, but I began work on the QtWidgets side support this week. I hope we can get it working for Plasma 6.8 but no promises, QtWidgets is quite a difficult beast to work with.
Plasma's long history of adding features that users want instead of removing them or banishing them to extensions (like some other desktops I could mention) is really paying off. It's just so darn good.
Press-and-hold for special characters looks very useful, but it's only for the virtual keyboard. Is it possible to bind long pressing a keyboard key to the same menu? In my entire career I never used the "hold the key to repeat the character" feature, so I'd be happy to replace that.
Based on the relevant merge request, it sounds like press-and-hold for special characters is specifically for the physical keyboard (I would imagine the virtual one already has that feature), so you would probably need the virtual keyboard enabled, but not necessarily actively in use.
While maybe not encompassing every special character, I really like using the compose key feature to type special characters on Linux. It's so intuitive.
might have to give this a whirl just for a taste of that sweet oxygen theme nostalgia
I haven't daily driven KDE for a very long time, but I will be attempting to do just that when this version hits my distro. It's looking very polished the feature highlights are enough to tempt me to try it out.
I switched to KDE as my daily driver a few months ago after not having used it since KDE 4 first released. Definitely recommended: it looks good, gets out of your way, has all the features I want, and is highly customizable.
I think KDE 3 was the last time I used KDE for more than a few minutes of testing. Thanks for the recommendation, I'm excited to experience how far it has come (though find the promise of customisability is not particularly appealing).
Test your microphone volume
That is amazing! I have wanted this for a long time.
No more being told your audio is too loud or quiet, or wondering if it’s your microphone or an app that’s misbehaving.
Indeed! I wish my microphone just worked every time, but being able to test whether my own system can hear me is the next best thing (and before I join a call, get told no one can hear me, and go through increasingly elaborate troubleshooting steps, up to and including switching to a different machine, just to realise I had pressed my mic's hardware "mute" button and didn't notice.)
I love Plasma. Great to see it getting even better.