KDE Plasma 6.8 Released to Celebrate 30 Years of Project - OMG! Ubuntu

KDE Celebrates 30 Years With Plasma 6.8 Release

Linux desktop environments have seen massive leaps in usability over the last few years, helped along in no small part by Valve adopting the Plasma desktop for SteamOS on the Steam Deck. The user base continues to grow, as do the demands from modern hardware and monitors. Now, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the …

KDE Plasma 6.8 Officially Launches with UI and Performance Tweaks

KDE Plasma is arguably one of the most widely used desktop environments in the Linux world, especially since the Valve Steam Deck introduced many gamers to the world of Linux using KDE Plasma in SteamOS when it launched the Steam Deck. Now, KDE has officially announced Plasma 6.8, the latest iteration of the Plasma DE, which comes with a number of improvements, including better accessibility options, a new system monitoring tool, the next step i…

KDE Plasma 6.8 released – OSnews

KDE turns 30 today, and they’re celebrating it with a brand new KDE Plasma release: version 6.8 is here. On the accessibility front, 6.8 brings a new dwell clicker function (meaning a click will register if the pointer is held still for a short while) and support for the Bikram Sambat calendar and the Amharic language. I always love it when I see support for new languages and scripts, especially when, as is the case here, it’s a language spoken …

KDE Plasma 6.8 released to celebrate 30 years of project - OMG! Ubuntu

KDE Plasma 6.8 has been released, arriving on the 30th anniversary of the free, open-source desktop environment’s founding. Changes are, as you’d expect, varied across the stack. A new backup tool, Kup, is included as part of Plasma 6.8 to make automated backups to external media easier, while Spectacle, the screenshot and screen capture tool, is now able to record system audio and microphone alongside screen contents. When running the Steam des…