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submitted 8 months ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

Almost after a year since the first release in the sixth generation of the popular Linux and UNIX desktop environment, KDE community announces the release of the latest version of KDE Plasma 6.3. In this major release the System Settings’ Drawing Tablet page has been overhauled and split into multiple tabs to improve how things are organized, and new configuration options have been added to each section. KWin window manager makes a stronger effort to snap things to the screen’s pixel grid, greatly reducing blurriness and visual gaps everywhere and producing sharper and crisper images. In the color department, screen colors are more accurate when using the Night Light feature both with and without ICC profiles, and KWin offers the option to choose screen color accuracy. Hardware and system monitoring and information tools have also received new features and performance optimizations. KRunner (the built-in search tool that also does conversions, calculations, definitions, graph plotting, and much more) now let you jump between categories using keyboard shortcuts. A security enhancement landing in Discover software management/app store application highlights sandboxed apps whose permissions will change after being updated. If you’re a fan of the forecasts provided by Deutcher Wetterdienst, you’re in luck: Plasma 6.3’s weather widget allows using this source for weather data. You can now configure its built-in touchpad to switch off automatically, so it doesn’t interfere with your typing. When you drag a file out of a window that’s partially below other windows, it no longer jumps to the top, potentially obscuring what you wanted to drag it into. Plasma panels can now be cloned You can also use scripting to change your panels’ opacity levels and what screen they appear on. And there’s much more. To see the full list of changes, check out the complete changelog for KDE Plasma 6.3.

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[-] passepartout@feddit.org 28 points 8 months ago

Not the heroes we deserve, but the ones we need.

Would be great to see some major distros shipping with KDE by default. Fedora e.g. had this idea a little while ago.

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

Uh? Isn't of the default on OpenSuse?

[-] passepartout@feddit.org 2 points 8 months ago

Just checked and i guess you're right! Time to do some distro hopping again lol.

[-] Neptr 4 points 8 months ago

openSUSE Tumbleweed is a great rolling-release distro. The Yast tool is a powerful GUI System Admin/Settings app. Plus the openSUSE logos are green which is a good color lol.

[-] Neptr 7 points 8 months ago

Fedora is promoting their KDE Spin to a full Edition, alongside Fedora Workstation (GNOME). Nothing really is changed, the KDE Spin has always been good.

[-] krimson@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Switched to KDE after many, many years of tiling wms. Bspwm, awesomewm, i3, Hyprland. A few months back I was done with tiling as I found it got in the way more than it was useful for me and often caused issues with games, window placement and other stuff. Installed KDE. Apart from one or two minor bugs, everything just works and works well. I am really impressed.

[-] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago
[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 8 months ago
[-] togo@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Not trying to downplay any efforts going into this, but coming from mac, working a lot in unix shells, using mainly debian based systems only via command line, i just don't understand why not a single operating system is able to get anywhere close to macos in terms of design consistency, performance on UI.. It just feels REALLY BAD trying to work on windows or any linux distro

[-] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Congratulations

[-] ravshaul@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

Plasma Is the only usable desktop GUI on BSD for working with multimedia files and having multiple programs open at any one time for productivity, Nothing else to install but Plasma.

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