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Plasma 6 has come into its own over the last two releases. The wrinkles that always come with a major migration have been ironed out, and it’s time to start delivering on the promises of the new Qt 6 and Wayland technology platforms that Plasma is built on top of.
Plasma 6.2 includes a smorgasbord of new features for users of drawing tablets. It implements more complete support for the Wayland color management protocol, and enables it by default. There is also improved brightness handling for HDR and ICC profiles, as well as HDR performance. A new tone mapping feature built into Plasma’s KWin compositor will help improve the look of images with a brightness or set of colors greater than what the screen can display, thus reducing the “blown out” look such images can otherwise exhibit.
When it comes to power management You can now override misbehaving applications that block the system from going to sleep or locking the screen (and thus prevent saving power), and you can also adjust the brightness of each connected monitor machine separately.
Plasma’s built-in app store and software management tool, Discover, now supports PostmarketOS packages for your mobile devices, helps you write better reviews of apps, and presents apps’ license information more accurately.
In Plasma 6.2, KDE have overhauled System Settings’ Accessibility page and added colorblindness filters. They’ve also added support for the full “sticky keys” feature on Wayland.
This and more in full anounncement and changelog.
Color Management Related to the above — and to ensure consistent colors across monitors — we’ve implemented more complete support for the Wayland color management protocol, and enabled it by default.
We have also improved brightness handling for HDR and ICC profiles, as well as HDR performance. This will improve your experience when designing graphics, playing games, and watching videos.
This is the biggest improvement by far.
Passed openQA in Tumbleweed, so should be available with 20241007.
I hope KDE does an implementation for cursor warping in Wayland kwin, it’s clear it won’t get fixed in XWayland any time soon
Installed on my openSUSE Tumbleweed and Gentoo computers and so far Plasma 6.2 working great 👍
and Gentoo computers
Did you unmasked it, or did it already hit stable in the KDE repo?
I use the testing ebuilds system-vide.
Anxiously waiting for ARCH to update their repos, they YANKED it from the unstable repo so I can’t cheat and download it early. :)
It’s there now!