Plasma 6.5
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KDE is on the verge of making it big for the general public

How do you make a great desktop into a fantastic desktop? Easy — chip away at the rough bits, polish the good stuff, and add awesomeness. After 29 years of development, KDE’s got the foundation nailed down. Plasma 6.5 is all about fine-tuning, fresh features, and a making everything smooth and sleek for everyone.

Ready to see what’s new? Let’s dive into Plasma 6.5!

Highlights:

  • Automatic Theme Transitions: Configure when your theme will transition from light to dark and back.
  • Caret Text Navigation: Zoom now swoops in to where you type
  • KRunner Fuzzy Search: Even if you type it wrong, KRunner will find it!
  • Obin@feddit.org
    1·
    2 days ago

    End of 2025 and still missing a replacement for Khotkeys. Plasma is still great all in all, but after almost two decades on KDE I feel like I’ve outgrown it and tried to switch away a couple times now. Time to stop procrastinating and getting on with writing my own wlroots compositor.

      • Obin@feddit.org
        1·
        22 hours ago

        Ultimately, as I said, I want to move away from KDE/Plasma. If I were to build a replacement for Khotkeys and go through the whole contribution process, possibly including some maintenance commitment and years of bikeshedding, I’d be more invested into KDE, not less.