KDE Plasma 6.6 Released
8 days ago
- #KDE
- #Plasma 6.6
- #Desktop Environment
- Plasma 6.6 focuses on usability, accessibility, and practical new features.
- New features include an improved on-screen keyboard, text extraction from screenshots in Spectacle, and user account setup post-OS installation.
- Users can create custom global themes and adjust color intensity for app frames.
- A new skin tone selector makes choosing emoji skin tones easier.
- Speed improvements include QR code Wi-Fi connection and scroll-to-adjust volume in the task manager.
- Accessibility enhancements include color blindness correction filters and a new grayscale filter.
- Spectacle can now recognize and extract text from images, aiding visually-impaired users.
- Plasma Setup is a new first-run wizard for configuring user accounts separately from OS installation.
- The release is dedicated to Björn Balazs, a passionate contributor who passed away.
- Plasma 6.6 can be tested via live images on USB or Docker images.
- Packages may not be immediately available on all distributions.
- Feedback can be provided through KDE Forums, Matrix channels, mailing lists, or Bugzilla.
- KDE welcomes volunteers for coding, documentation, translations, and more.