KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Release
Here are the major changes available in the Plasma 6.1 beta:
- Triple buffering in KWin for smoother rendering and animations
- Support for the Wayland Explicit Sync protocol, which should improve life for NVIDIA users in particular
- Support for the Input Capture portal
- Remote Desktop system integration to allow RDP clients to connect to Plasma desktops, plus a new page in System Settings for configuring this
- New UX for Plasma's edit mode to make its modality more obvious and visually fancier
- Added a configurable edge barrier between screens, to make it easier to hit UI elements touching the edges between screens. This also allows auto-hide panels on edges between screens to work properly
- Fake session restore on Wayland that at least re-opens apps that were open last time, even if they don't get positioned in the same place. Support for real session restore is still being worked on
- Support for syncing the color of your keyboard's RGB backlight with Plasma's accent color
- Support for using the color profile embedded into the display, for displays that bundle these
- Support in Discover for replacing end-of-support Flatpak apps with their replacements
- Support for the battery conservation mode features on many Lenovo IdeaPad and Legion laptops
- Support for passwordless screen locking, for using it as a screensaver in an environment without security concerns
- You can now middle-click the Power & Battery widget to block and unblock automatic sleep and screen locking, and scroll over it to switch the active power profile
- Slightly rounder corners, and more consistency between corner radius everywhere
- Better window layout algorithm for Overview
- The "Shake cursor to find it" effect has been enabled by default
- New off-by-default effect to hide the mouse pointer after a period of inactivity
- System Settings Keyboard page has been rewritten in QML