Plasma 6.1 is here!
New features include a cool take on Plasma’s edit mode, keyboard LEDs that sync with accent colors, an inbuilt Remote Desktop Server that let’s you access Plasma desktops over a network, lots of bug corrections and improvements.
OK, I’m excited about built in remote desktop. Now add a button to integrate that with Tailscale.
It’s looking great, kudos to the whole @kde team 👏 !
Edge barrier! Finally!
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Maybe we passed from the “Bronze Age” and are entering the “Iron Age” of Linux.This new and refined and modernized Plasma 6 arrives at the same time that many fundamental things behind the scenes are being “fixed” and evolved.
Isn’t lagging behind Windows anymore in a few key areas, there’s more support from big corporations, and even Gnome is “getting got” finally.This next half decade seems promising.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Paaaarty-time! Woo-hoo, KDE team!I’ve been waiting for this release, because of the first item on the first TWiK after the release of Plasma 6.0:
There’s a new KWin effect called “Hide Cursor” (off by default for now, but try it!) that will automatically hide the pointer after a period of inactivity (Jin Liu, Plasma 6.1. Link)
https://pointieststick.com/2024/03/02/this-week-in-kde-a-smooth-release/
Time to wait until it goes into Arch’s stable repos.
Seems like arch gets KDE into stable within a couple days of release generally. Or there’s the kde-unstable repo that already has it
Yeah, it takes about 6 days on averege to get it into stable
Sometimes longer if there are bugs but yeah.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Plasma 6.1 is absolutely beautiful.
I’ve had a sweet spot for KDE ever since I managed to get KDE 1 running on an SGI Indy running IRIX 6.5 at university and on my Pentium 233MMX running Slackware '96.
Congratulations on the release!
Plasma 6.1 on Wayland now has a feature that “remembers” what you were doing in your last session like it did under X11. Although this is still work in progress, If you log off and shut down your computer with a dozen open windows, Plasma will now open them for you the next time you power up your desktop, making it faster and easier to get back to what you were doing.
Maybe I’m just a boomer but this feature is so incredibly annoying to me and is one of the first things I disable on new installs
Alternate perspective: I use the heck out of session restore, and it has driven me nuts that it hasn’t worked properly under Wayland.
I tend to use different virtual desktops for different projects, so being able to reboot (because of a kernel update and needing to load a module or something) without losing and having to rebuild that state is is super valuable.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social looking great! Congrats on the release 🎉
Note that due to unforeseen circumstances, we have been unable to ship the new wallpaper, “Reef”, with this version of Plasma. However, “Reef” will be coming soon in the next 6.2 version.
If you can’t wait, you can download “Reef” from here:
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social No way! The most important thing!
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social The wallpaper looks awesome!
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social The wallpaper “Reef” was unable to “ship” for this release.
@textovervideo @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social It’s beautiful, but a shipwreck seems like a strange choice for a flagship wallpaper.
(Yes, pun intended - easy target.)
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Reminds me of Spongebob Squarepants.
ooooh yeah ♥️
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Remote desktop server! Is that RDP compatible, for connections from Windows machines?
Ooooooooooooo
Who lives in a pineapple called KDE
fossbob plasmapants?
Are ya ready PIDs?
