Martedì, 21 Ottobre 2025
How do you make a great desktop into a fantastic desktop? Easy — chip away at the rough bits, polish the good stuff, and add awesomeness. After 29 years of development, KDE’s got the foundation nailed down. Plasma 6.5 is all about fine-tuning, fresh features, and a making everything smooth and sleek for everyone.
Ready to see what’s new? Let’s dive into Plasma 6.5!
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In evidenza
Automatic Theme Transitions
Configure when your theme will transition from light to dark and back.
Caret Text Navigation
Zoom now swoops in to where you type
KRunner Fuzzy Search
Even if you type it wrong, KRunner will find it!
Nuove funzionalità
Plasma 6.5 includes a number of highly-requested features:
First up: rounded bottom window corners! Breeze-themed windows will now have the same level of roundness in all four corners. If you don’t like this, you can un-round them, too.
Another one is automatic light-to-dark theme switching based on the time of day. You can configure which global themes it switches between, and also which themes are shown on the manual toggles on System Settings’ Quick Settings page.
As a part of this feature, you can also configure whether you want the wallpaper to switch between its light and dark versions based on the color scheme, the time of day, or be always light or dark.
Next up is a “Pinned clipboard items” feature, which lets you save text you use regularly into the clipboard, so you don’t have to keep copying them over and over again.
For all the artists out there, you can now configure any rotary dials and touch rings on your drawing tablet using System Settings’ Drawing Tablet page. It also shows a warning if you try to configure a tablet that’s being managed by a custom driver, and the tablet page will be hidden if you don’t have any drawing tablets connected in the first place.
We’ve transformed the Flatpak Permissions page into a general Application Permissions page, where you can configure apps’ ability to do things like take screenshots and accept remote control requests.
Plasma’s built in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server now lets you share the clipboard. You’re also no longer required to manually create separate remote desktop accounts; now the system’s existing user accounts work as expected, and you can just supply their credentials to the RDP client app.
The utility that reads the level of ink or toner from your printer now informs you when it’s running low or empty.
And finally, you can now hibernate your system from the login screen.
Usabilità
Usability improvement has been a major focus in Plasma 6.5. Here are some examples of what you can expect:
System Settings’ Wi-Fi & Networking page has been updated to show detected wireless networks, and you can connect to them directly from there.
Speaking of networking, when sharing the QR code of a Wi-Fi network, its password is now shown as well, so the person you’re sharing it to can easily connect. And to avoid mistakes, clicking “Connect” on a network in the Networks widget closes any other open password fields for other networks, so there’s only one visible at any given time. The widget also now provides visible messages like “looking for wireless networks” and “network has been disabled” to make it clearer what’s going on.
Continuing with the System Tray, the notification telling you that you missed some notifications while you were in Do Not Disturb mode includes a button you can click on to see those missed notifications.
In the audio department, Plasma now warns you that keeping the “Raise maximum volume” setting active for prolonged periods may damage the device’s speakers, and when the system is muted, changing the volume in any way now un-mutes all playback devices.
Likewise, muting microphones with a dedicated "Mute Microphone" key (or using the very cool secret Meta+Mute shortcut) now mutes all microphones, rather than just the active one. This makes the behavior consistent between microphones and speakers.
For the gamers out there, you can now see more relevant info about game controllers on System Settings’ Game Controller page.
And finally, setting up a wallpaper slideshow has been made easier as you can now click on the entire grid item for each image to toggle it on or off. And once it’s set up, you can advance to the or previous next wallpaper with a keyboard shortcut.
Accessibilità
Visually impaired users will be happy to know that the Orca screen reader now reads out changes to the Caps Lock state, and that we have improved the way screen readers describe actions and keyboard shortcuts on System Settings’ Shortcuts and Autostart pages. On a related note, users sensitive to color can now make use of a grayscale color filter, which desaturates or removes color systemwide.
Plasma has also been audited for cases where the screen could flash at just the wrong speed to trigger photosensitivity, and all discovered cases have been fixed.
The Zoom effect can now be configured to jump to the position of the text insertion point as it moves around the screen.
In addition to playing a sound, Plasma now shows a system notification when you plug in a device. This was done primarily to help people with problems hearing, but you can also turn the notifications off if you want, go back to just sounds, or receive no feedback at all.
Finally, keyboard navigation has been enhanced throughout Plasma and its apps.
Oggetti
KRunner, Plasma’s search/launch/unit converter/calculator/“but wait, there’s more” tool, uses fuzzy matching to look up applications. This means that even if you misspell an app’s name, KRunner will probably still find it for you. How search results are ordered has also been improved, and KRunner will start to provide those results after the first character is typed.
Sticky Notes added to panels can be resized to be much smaller; you can change their background color from the context menu; and when you choose the “Transparent” background color, colored sticky notes’ backgrounds disappear entirely.
On Wayland, you can re-order virtual desktops directly from the Pager widget, and re-ordering them in the Overview effect’s grid view now re-orders them in the Pager widget, too.
Apps
Many of Plasma’s included apps have seen improvements, too. Here are a couple of them:
Discover, Plasma’s software management app/app store, has seen a focus on performance and feedback. You should notice that Discover is usually much faster to launch in Plasma 6.5. And when it’s not, it’ll be more verbose about what it’s doing, so you can tell which source is being slow.
Discover has also gained support for flatpak+https:// URLs, which allows the Install buttons on Flathub to automatically open Discover. Finally, Discover can show you hardware drivers available for installation on operating systems supporting this feature.
The first time you launch Emoji Selector app (try it with Meta+.), it will open to a page showing everything instead of an empty “Recent” page. Now the search field is always visible, and doing a search will always search through the full set of all emojis if there aren’t any matches on the current page.
Spectacle is Plasma’s screenshot/screencast utility, and will now also include in window screen recordings any popups that the target window creates.
HDR & Windows
The tone mapping curve used by KWin has been tweaked for when displaying HDR content and now it looks better than ever.
Plasma 6.5 implements support for an experimental version of the Wayland picture-in-picture protocol that promises to allow apps like Firefox to eventually display proper PiP windows that stay above others automatically.
Performance
We’ve added support for “overlay planes”, which promise to reduce CPU usage and power draw when displaying full-screen content using a compatible GPU.
By optimizing the splash screen code, re-arranging some of the startup steps and reducing the duration of the login animation, we have made the desktop load faster, making for a snappier Plasma experience.