KDE Plasma 6.2 released with improved Wayland colour management

By Liam Dawe - 8 October 2024 at 11:08 am UTC

The KDE team have today released the Plasma 6.2 desktop environment bringing with it a "friendlier, more accessible and smarter environment". This is the same UI used on the Steam Deck Desktop Mode!

What to expect from this release? Here's some highlights:

A whole lot of new features for users of drawing tablets.
More complete support for the Wayland colour management protocol enabled it by default.
Power management improvements like overriding applications that block sleep.

Pictured - KDE Plasma 6.2

Features continued:

Overhauled accessibility options.
Various improvements to the look and feel of the UI.
Lots of bug fixes and various other smaller updates.

The once a year request for donations pop-up is also live as of this release.

I'm still currently on Plasma 5.27, so I'm really looking forward to the next Kubuntu release with 24.10 that will at least get me up to Plasma 6.1. One of the benefits of being just a bit behind is seeing all the new stuff get stable before moving over to it. I'm excited! The KDE team have been doing some stellar work.

What are you most happy to see in Plasma 6.2? Leave a comment and let me know!

See all in the announcement and release notes.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Desktop Environment, KDE, Misc, New Release, Open Source

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Numerfolt Oct 8

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Plasma 6 was actually the reason why I moved to KDE Neon. It even has a tiny patch that I submitted :)

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pleasereadthemanual Oct 8

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I'm back on GNOME now, but it's great to see more drawing tablet features.

They're working through these issues: https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Known_Significant_Issues#Graphics_Tablet_Support

And also great to see...whatever's happening with colour management.

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jrepin Oct 8

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It's already in openQA for openSUSE Tumbleweed, so if it passes all the tests it will arrive in a few hours. Keeping fingers crossed.

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Pyrate Oct 8

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Does anyone know if 6.2 will make it to the Fedora 41 release? Love KDE Plasma.

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grigi Oct 8

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Quoting: PyrateDoes anyone know if 6.2 will make it to the Fedora 41 release? Love KDE Plasma.

Considering 6.1 was backported to Fedora 40, even though it came out a few months afterwards, I strongly suspect the answer is YES.

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akselmo Oct 8

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I hope people will like it :) A lot of bugs got fixed

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CyborgZeta Oct 8

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I migrated to Bazzite and Aurora last week from Kubuntu, and both are at Fedora 40 right now; which uses Plasma 6.1. I wasn't sure what to expect, but Plasma 6.1 has been pretty stable so far. Even on Plasma 5.27, I would still occasionally get an issue where Wayland would crash and take my entire desktop with it, requiring a hard reboot. Haven't encountered that yet on Plasma 6.

KDE guys are doing good work.

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ShadowXeldron Oct 9

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That was well timed. I've actually been considering a distrohop on my laptop to something KDE-based recently. I've just installed Plasma on top of Mint 21 for Wayland support but it's only KDE 5 which does irk me a bit. I haven't currently got the means to back up all my data though which has held me back a fair bit.

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jrepin Oct 9

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

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Purple Library Guy Oct 9

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Quoting: ShadowXeldronThat was well timed. I've actually been considering a distrohop on my laptop to something KDE-based recently. I've just installed Plasma on top of Mint 21 for Wayland support but it's only KDE 5 which does irk me a bit. I haven't currently got the means to back up all my data though which has held me back a fair bit.

Since Mint doesn't really support KDE in the first place, if you're going to install it couldn't you install any KDE you wanted to?

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