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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.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago

But wait, when I control F for "AI" nothing shows up?!

What a breath of fresh air...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anxiously waiting for ARCH to update their repos, they YANKED it from the unstable repo so I can't cheat and download it early. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's there now!

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

That is huge. The power management changes and being able to set brightness per monitor are pretty nice too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

As somebody who doesnt have an hdr monitor; what does this change exactly?

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

HDR images will look better. Colors will be normalized to the ones your screen can display.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Cool, thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

For me it makes the brightness go up, colors become stronger. It's great for watching movies but not for working.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Passed openQA in Tumbleweed, so should be available with 20241007.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fuck Slowroll, I'm going back to Tumbleweed for this!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

About that, I don't really see the appeal of Slowroll, except as psychological reassurance for those who would feel the need to update every time a snapshot comes out. I mean, I personally slow-roll on Tumbleweed all the time by only updating once a month, sometimes more and sometimes less like for this update. I'd be interested to know why you use it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I activated it on my work laptop to benefit from a little more time to get bug reports upstream. OpenQA can't catch everything. Even if I updated only once a month I'd still get up-to-date software at that time.

Sure, openQA and snapper make catastrophic failure very unlikely. But it's still a small hassle.

But I can't work anymore anyways so I might as well get all the good stuff as quickly as possible. Just gotta find the energy to switch the repos. By that time Plasma 6.2 has probably hit Slowroll. Let's see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oh alright, I do see the point now! I had the wrong idea about how it works. I get the need to have more guarantees on functioning packages

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Great I wonder when will it be available in Nixos unstable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

~~There's no PR open for nixpkgs at the moment, so either we wait until a trusted packager updates it, someone makes a PR, or you can also use a thirdparty flake~~

6.2 has been merged into staging-next

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

There was a PR actually!~ but it was already merged (into staging-next) by the time you made your comment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Ah that's probably why I couldn't dig it up. Nixpkgs gets a ton of activity daily so this PR get buried haha.

Great to hear it's already there

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Installed on my openSUSE Tumbleweed and Gentoo computers and so far Plasma 6.2 working great 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

and Gentoo computers

Did you unmasked it, or did it already hit stable in the KDE repo?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I use the testing ebuilds system-vide.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Great, now please fix per monitor scaling. 4k laptops are unusable when connected to large 4k screens. I need no scaling on large external screen and about 175% on laptop's 16".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Stop using Xorg and your scaling problems are gone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I haven't used Xorg in years. All my problems are in Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Best to report the issue you have with as much information as possible to bugs.kde.org

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I did this once for their music player, that bug trackers is hell...I can't even find my original report, but there is enough for a lifetime: https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?component=general&product=Elisa&resolution=---