dinsdag, 17 juni 2025
Er is hier een nieuwe versie van Plasma en het voelt nog meer thuis, omdat het soepeler, vriendelijker en behulpzamer wordt.
Plasma 6.4 verbetert op bijna elk front, met voortgang die wordt gemaakt in toegankelijkheid, kleurweergave, ondersteuning van tablet, vensterbeheer en meer.
Omdat dit een lange leessessie wordt, laten we er meteen induiken…
Hoogtepunten
Flexibelere vorming van tegels
Kies een andere indeling van tegels voor elke van uw virtuele bureaubladen
Nieuwe Spectacle
Spectacle kreeg een herziening om het nog prachtiger te maken
KRunner kreeg kleur
Voer een kleurcode in in elke notatie en laat KRunner u tonen hoe het er uitziet
Vensterbeheer
Plasma biedt al Virtuele bureaubladen om te helpen bij het organiseren van uw vensters en activiteiten; en aanpasbare Tegels waaraan u vensters kunt plakken zodat ze elkaar niet overlappen, om u alles wat belangrijk is in een oogopslag te laten zien.
Plasma 6.4 combineert deze mogelijkheden door u een verschillende configuratie van tegels te laten kiezen op elk virtuele bureaublad.
De onderstaande video toont de kracht van deze mogelijkheid: u kunt twee vensters op uw hoofd virtuele bureaublad tegelen, die elk de helft van het scherm nemen. Daarna in een ander virtueel bureaublad kunt u toepassingen in tegels plaatsen: twee aan iedere kant en de andere twee zwevend in het midden.
Deze nieuwe mogelijkheid laat u elk ander soort indelingscombinatie aanmaken die het beste voor u werkt.
Toegankelijkheid
Toegankelijkheid is een top prioriteit voor KDE. Dat werk is eindeloos, maar we maken vorderingen in elke nieuwe Plasma uitgave!
The Wayland session in Plasma 6.4 brings some new accessibility features: you can now move the pointer using your keyboard’s number pad keys, or use a three-finger touchpad pinch gesture to zoom in or out.
In addition, a great deal of subtle but important work has been done throughout Plasma to improve keyboard navigation, screen reader usability, and text readability.
UI & visueel ontwerp
Straddling the boundary between accessibility and visual design, another way of making Plasma easier to use is by increasing the contrast between the foreground and background elements.
In that respect, we’ve made our Breeze Dark theme a bit darker. This subtle change helps the text and user interface elements pop, making them easier to read and see.
Plasma 6.4 also darkens the background of the desktop or window when an authentication dialog shows up. This will help you locate and focus on the window asking for your password.
The energy page in the Info Center and the entirety of KMenuEdit (the app you can use to edit apps’ presentation and grouping in the launcher menu) have all had their looks overhauled to make them cleaner, clearer, and easier to use.
Speaking of settings, there’s a brand-new Animations page in System Settings that groups all the settings for purely visual animated effects into one place, making it easier to find and configure them.
Plasma 6.4’s lock screen plays nicer with multiple-screen setups, too. The lock screen’s interactive elements will now only appear on the screen that has focus or the pointer on it. And when it’s time to input your password, the text entered into one password field is synced across all others, avoiding any errors that may cause passwords to be half-entered in a field on one screen, and then the rest in a different one on another screen.
Meldingen
Notifications are how Plasma communicates what’s going on within your system.
The file transfer notification now shows a speed graph, giving you a more visual idea of how fast the transfer is going, and how long it will take to complete.
When you get notified that updates are available, you can now install them directly from the notification.
When any applications are in full screen mode — like when you’re playing a game, working on a critical project, or watching a video — Plasma will enter Do Not Disturb mode and only show urgent notifications. When you exit full screen mode, you’ll see a summary of any notifications you missed, and they’ll be right there in the System Tray for your perusal.
Have you ever found yourself talking during an online meeting, and no one can hear you because you forgot to unmute your microphone? No more! Now when an app tries to access the microphone and finds it muted, a notification will pop up.
Finally, notifications with interactive buttons will still show them in the history view.
Widgets
Widgets are the building blocks of Plasma: small programs that carry out specific tasks on your Plasma desktop. They can launch programs, track the weather, set alarms, or tell you when you have updates.
Among many other improvements, a new feature in the Application Launcher widget will place a green New! tag next to newly installed apps, so you can easily find where something you just installed lives in the menu. The tag disappears after 3 days, or after you run the app for the first time.
The Media Player widget now allows you slow down or speed up whatever audio or video is currently playing (for players that support this feature).
And the Disks & Devices widget used to access internal and removable disks now checks and even offers to repair your disks if it finds errors in them.
Plasma 6.4 features many other smaller changes to the included widgets as well; explore them to see everything that’s new!
Voor digitale artiesten
Plasma continues the push to improve support for devices used by digital artists and graphic designers.
In Plasma 6.4, we’ve made configuring the buttons on your stylus much more intuitive:
If you make a mistake while calibrating your tablet, Plasma offers an easy way to reset everything and start over.
And when you aren’t making art, you can still continue using your tablet, since Plasma now supports relative mode which makes the stylus behave more like a regular mouse.
Kleurbeheer
For those looking to adjust the colors for gaming or watching movies, the Display and Monitor page in System Settings comes with a brand new HDR calibration wizard in Plasma 6.4.
Plasma 6.4 can also do Extended Dynamic Range (a different kind of HDR) on screens that support it, and gives you a tool to limit color depth — again for screens that support that feature.
Finally, Plasma now supports the P010 video color format, improving power efficiency with HDR video content.
In a nutshell, Plasma helps you make the best use of your fancy screen hardware!
KRunner
KRunner is Plasma’s powerful built-in assistant. If you need to find something, define something, calculate something, or convert something, press Alt + Space and ask KRunner.
In Plasma 6.4, KRunner can help you visualize colors. Just enter the color in hex notation, as a hexadecimal number, or its CSS/SVG name (like “MintCream”, “PeachPuff”, or “PapayaWhip” — yes, those are all names of colors and not fancy desserts). Then KRunner will show you how that color looks and its equivalent name/code in many other notations.
Schermafdrukken & scherm opnemen
Spectacle, de ingebouwde toepassing voor het maken van schermafdrukken en schermopname, ziet er heel erg anders uit in Plasma 6.4 — maar beter!
Druk op de toets PrtSc en Spectacle opent direct in modus schermafdruk: sleep een vak om een gebied van het scherm te selecteren or druk onmiddellijk op Enter en Spectacle zal een afdruk van het hele scherm nemen.
U kunt ook direct beginnen met annoteren door pijlen te tekenen, secties te vervagen, verklarende tekst toevoegen en meer.
Finally, quality has been massively improved for screen recordings using the WebM format or taken on screens using fractional scaling.
Systeemmonitoring
Plasma 6.4’s System Monitor helps you stay on top of how your system is working in even more ways.
First, the Overview and History pages have been overhauled to show more information and be more generally useful:
And on those pages, you can find usage monitoring for Intel GPUs. In addition, it can even show the GPU usage on a per-process basis for Intel and AMD GPUs.
There’s also a new “Background Services” group on the Applications page, giving you the complete picture of the system resources being used by things that aren’t apps.
In addition, the built-in free space monitor now checks for free space on all non-cache partitions of all disks, not just a disk’s Root and Home partitions.
And finally, a new Sensors page in Info Center shows raw sensor data for things like the temperature of your CPUs and GPUs.
Diversen
When dragging files to another location on the same disk using Dolphin or the Plasma desktop, you can now have the system always move the files, rather than being asked what to do every time.
The Plasma browser integration feature that allows you to control the playback of media in your browser from the desktop (among many other things) now supports the Flatpak versions of Firefox and Chromium variants like LibreWolf and Ungoogled Chromium.
And finally, for the more technically-minded, Plasma 6.4 adds support for a large number of Wayland protocols, including the “Relative tablet dials”, “idle notify“, “color representation”, “FIFO”, “toplevel tag”, and “single pixel buffer” protocols. This will help apps integrate better into Plasma’s Wayland session.
