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KDE Plasma 6.6 released (kde.org)
submitted 5 days ago by FirmDistribution@lemmy.world to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43288310

In KDE Plasma 6.6 Spectacle can read texts from screenshots, a new on-screen keybord is available for testing, a first-time wizard was added, current theme can be saved as a new global theme, emoji selector got a new easier skin tone selection, you can now connect to a Wi-Fi network via a QR code, application sound volume can be changed by scrolling over a taskbar button via mouse, and there is much more.

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[-] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 18 points 5 days ago

been waiting on the global theme thing so I can save my weird setup and not have to rebuild it every time I switch distros (and I need a reinstall because I did something the computer said not to and have weird issues now)

[-] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

OCR in Spectacle is amazing. Need to test it out.            

(To me its amazing enough that i infodumped a fellow employee)

[-] Crank@ani.social 2 points 4 days ago

For some reason it says that I don't have necessary tesseract dependencies on Fedora, even though I do 😩

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I have the same problem. The package manager says they are installed, but spectacle can't see them.

[-] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I needed to install them (after wondering too long why it didnt work)         

But i hope one of the next updates will fix it for you when you already have it

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

What exactly did you need to install? My system says I have tesseract and the language pack installed, but spectacle doesn't seem to see it. I'm thinking it isn't the right package.

[-] Crank@ani.social 3 points 3 days ago

Turns out it needs tesseract-devel for some reason

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

That was it! Thanks for the help!

[-] Crank@ani.social 2 points 2 days ago

After the latest update to Spectacle tesseract-devel is no longer needed

[-] loam@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Scrolling while hovering over taskbar icons to control that app's volume? The future is now!

[-] who@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

Spectacle can read texts from screenshots

I use Spectacle to take screen shots. I wish it wasn't so incredibly slow.

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