KDE Plasma 6.3 Released 8
Today, the KDE Project announced the release of KDE Plasma 6.3, featuring improved fractional scaling, enhanced Night Light color accuracy, better CPU usage monitoring, and various UI and security refinements.
Some of the key features of Plasma 6.3 include:
- Improved fractional scaling with KWin to lead to an all-around better desktop experience with fractional scaling as well as when making use of KWin's zoom effect.
- Screen colors are more accurate with the KDE Night Light feature.
- CPU usage monitoring within the KDE System Monitor is now more accurate and consuming fewer CPU resources.
- KDE will now present a notification when the kernel terminated an app because the system ran out of memory.
- Various improvements to the Discover app, including a security enhancement around sandboxed apps.
- The drawing tablet area of KDE System Settings has been overhauled with new features and refinements.
- Many other enhancements and fixes throughout KDE Plasma 6.3.
You can read the announcement here.
Some of the key features of Plasma 6.3 include:
- Improved fractional scaling with KWin to lead to an all-around better desktop experience with fractional scaling as well as when making use of KWin's zoom effect.
- Screen colors are more accurate with the KDE Night Light feature.
- CPU usage monitoring within the KDE System Monitor is now more accurate and consuming fewer CPU resources.
- KDE will now present a notification when the kernel terminated an app because the system ran out of memory.
- Various improvements to the Discover app, including a security enhancement around sandboxed apps.
- The drawing tablet area of KDE System Settings has been overhauled with new features and refinements.
- Many other enhancements and fixes throughout KDE Plasma 6.3.
You can read the announcement here.
Best DE (Score:4, Insightful)
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Yes, question.
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I'm really enjoying the minimalism of plain XFCE4 right now. It does all the things I need a desktop to do. Granted I only have one big display, so I guess there's some weird use cases– But I've used nearly everything designed to be driven with a mouse, and this is almost as good as any of them. I do miss a few things from compiz, but it is just a little too flaky.
XFCE4 (Score:3)
I switch between XFCE and KDE. They both excel at different things. Also when I upgrade KDE in Gentoo I have to drop into XFCE as I'm uninstalling the foundation libraries whilst upgrading, which running desktops apparently don't like.
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Another XFCE4 fan. Simple, stays out of my way. And since 99% of my time is spent in a browser, a terminal, an editor or my email client, I don't really need a fancy desktop.
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If only Linux Mint had a flavor with KDE...
Gnome out, KDE in (Score:2)