Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
7 hours ago
- #Linux
- #TV-interface
- #open-source
- Plasma Bigscreen is an open-source TV interface for Linux, designed for TVs, HTPCs, and set-top boxes.
- Features a TV-friendly interface, allowing control from the couch with multiple input methods like TV remote, game controller, keyboard, mouse, or phone via KDE Connect.
- Highly customizable and flexible, based on KDE Plasma, enabling users to tweak and personalize their TV experience.
- Fully open-source, built on technologies like KDE Plasma, KWin, KDE Frameworks, Qt, and Kirigami.
- Includes TV-friendly settings for easy configuration of display, network, appearance, etc., navigable with a remote or controller.
- Supports favorite Linux apps like Steam, Kodi, Jellyfin, and YouTube (via VacuumTube), installable via package managers or Flathub.
- Leverages modern Linux desktop stack, installable as a regular desktop environment on Linux distributions.
- Home overlay feature provides quick access to apps, settings, and running applications with a single button press.
- Focuses on user privacy and openness, contrasting with common walled-garden TV platforms.
- Developed by the KDE community, encouraging contributions in code, design, translations, or testing.