KDE Plasma 6.3 has been released and represents a significant update to the desktop environment, emphasizing enhancements and new features to establish it as the premier platform for creativity.
The primary features encompass cloning panels, KWin Zoom, and precise adjustments to art hardware. The Drawing Tablet page has undergone enhancements, introducing new configuration options along with a feature to highlight modified settings. The graphics feature has undergone a comprehensive overhaul, with KWin prioritizing the reduction of blurriness and visual gaps, resulting in sharper images. The Night Light feature provides enhanced color accuracy, while translucent widgets contribute an elegant aesthetic to the desktop. The System Monitor application and widgets now gather GPU statistics from the system, while the Info Center offers enhanced information regarding GPUs and battery cycles. It is also more straightforward to monitor printers, as the print queue for each printer is displayed in the widget. Plasma already incorporates background services that notify users when an issue arises, and Plasma 6.3 introduces a service that identifies when the kernel terminates an application due to memory exhaustion, offering notifications and recommendations for preventing future occurrences.
Plasma 6.3
One year on, with the teething problems a major new release inevitably brings firmly behind us, Plasma’s developers have worked on fine-tuning, squashing bugs and adding features to Plasma 6 — turning it into the best desktop environment for everyone!
Read on to discover all the exciting new changes landing in this release…
