2024-10-10 07:00:00
Adds support for Wayland color management, per-monitor brightness control, full support for Sticky Keys in Wayland, and much more.
Today, the KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.2 as the second major update to the desktop environment series KDE Plasma 6 bringing many new features and improvements.
KDE Plasma 6.2 highlights include new and improved power management features such as per-monitor brightness control, the ability to bypass apps that cause the screen to sleep or lock, the ability to switch between power profiles with the Meta+ keyboard shortcut, a power profile badge for the Battery Monitor widget icon, along with the ability for the Battery Monitor widget to remain visible while the computer is charging.
A new tone mapping feature for KWin composer has also been implemented in this release to improve the appearance of images, along with better brightness management for HDR and ICC profiles and improved HDR performance.
KDE Plasma 6.2 also introduces new accessibility features such as color blindness filters in KCM Accessibility, full support for sticky keys in Wayland and a revamped Accessibility KCM UI for even greater accessibility, plus new input device features such as support for enabling the Libinput driver’s “auto-scroll” feature and an option to disable soft scrolling in KDE applications .
Plasma Discover, KDE’s graphical package manager/app store, has been improved in KDE Plasma 6.2 with support for the mobile operating system postmarketOS the ability to shut down the system after applying an offline system update, more accurate licensing information for apps, and an improved app review system.
There are also new networking features, such as support for Open Wi-Fi Enhanced (OWE) security and WebAuth support for SAML-based network authentication, as well as improvements to the System Settings app, which has received user interfaces renewed for Accessibility modules. Keyboard and Thunderbolt KCM.
For digital artists, KDE Plasma 6.2 offers a graphics tablet calibration wizard, a new option to remap the graphics tablet stylus buttons to different types of mouse clicks, a new option to map the graphics tablet area to the screen area, a test mode for drawing tablet settings, support for the Wayland color management protocol in KWin, and a new option to use the monitor’s built-in color profile data.
Among other notable changes, KDE Plasma 6.2 offers a better layout for the extended grid view of the system tray, a revamped Widget Explorer user experience, rich views of Plasma features in the Welcome Center, and settings support highlight color to match the Breeze Dark Plasma theme and the overall Breeze Twilight theme.
But wait, that’s not all, as KDE Plasma 6.2 also adds a new sound when connecting or disconnecting a display, a new option to disable window outlines in the Pager widget, a new Memory page in the Info Center app, a protocol Win alpha modifier, initial implementation of SVG cursor themes, and once a year donation request notification for those who wish to support the KDE project.
With this release, the desktop environment KDE Plasma will use the same “Open with” dialog everywhere. Also, KWin’s Popup Morphing effect has been removed due to bugs that cannot be fixed, users can now drag windows with Breeze theme only from header areas by default, you can now name shortcuts and widgets Custom “Minimize All” only now minimizes windows on the virtual desktop and current task.
Refer to launch announcement page for more details KDE Plasma 6.2 will soon arrive in the stable software repositories of some of the most popular and continuously released KDE-oriented distributions, including KDE neon, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Arch Linux and others.
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