Вторник, 24 июня 2025. Сегодня сообщество KDE выпустило корректирующее обновление рабочей среды Plasma 6 до версии 6.4.1.
Plasma 6.4 была выпущена в июне 2025 и включила в себя много новых функций и улучшений.
В данный выпуск добавлены новые переводы и исправления ошибок от участников KDE, сделанные за последнюю неделю. Обращаем внимание на некоторые важные исправления:
Открыть полный список измененийA new version of Plasma is here, and it feels even more like /home, as it becomes smoother, friendlier and more helpful.
Plasma 6.4 improves on nearly every front, with progress being made in accessibility, color rendering, tablet support, window management, and more.
As this is going to be a long read, let’s get right into it…
Choose a different tile layout for each of your virtual desktops
Spectacle gets an overhaul to make it even more awesome
Enter a color code in any notation and let KRunner show you what it looks like
Plasma already offers Virtual Desktops to help organize your windows and activities; and customizable Tiles you can stick windows to so they don’t overlap, allowing you to see everything important at a glance.
Plasma 6.4 combines these features by letting you choose a different configuration of tiles on each virtual desktop.
The video below shows the power of this feature: you can tile two windows on your main virtual desktop, each taking up half of the screen. Then in another virtual desktop, you can place tile apps: two on either side, and the other two floating in the middle.
This new feature lets you create any other kind of layout combination that best works for you.
Accessibility is a top priority for KDE. This work is endless, but we make improvements in every new Plasma release!
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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 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.
Spectacle, the built-in app for taking screenshots and screen recordings, looks very different in Plasma 6.4 — for the better!
Press the PrtSc key and Spectacle opens directly in screenshot mode: drag a box to select a region of the screen, or press Enter immediately and Spectacle will take a shot of the whole screen.
You can also start annotating right away, by drawing arrows, blurring sections, adding explanatory text, and more.
Finally, quality has been massively improved for screen recordings using the WebM format or taken on screens using fractional scaling.
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.
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.
One year on, with the teething problems a major new release inevitably brings firmly behind us, Plasma’s developers have worked on fine-tuning, squashing bugs and adding features to Plasma 6 — turning it into the best desktop environment for everyone!
Read on to discover all the exciting new changes landing in this release…
Duplicate your setup with one click
Pinpoint individual pixels
Fine tune your art hardware
We want to make Plasma the best platform for creativity, and Plasma 6.3 takes the next step in that direction by providing features that help artists optimize and customize their graphics tablets to their liking.
The System Settings’ Drawing Tablet page has been overhauled and split into multiple tabs to improve how things are organized, and new configuration options have been added to each section:
After finishing configuring your tablet, you’ll be able to see what changed thanks to System Settings’ “Highlight changed settings” feature, which works for most of the Drawing Tablet page.
The most important news regarding graphics is a huge overhaul of how fractional scaling works. In Plasma 6.3, KWin makes a stronger effort to snap things to the screen’s pixel grid, greatly reducing blurriness and visual gaps everywhere and producing sharper and crisper images.
This works at very high zoom levels as well, as KWin’s Zoom effect switches to a sharp pixel-perfect representation and overlays a grid on top of the screen. You can actually see how individual pixels look relative to other ones. Very useful for artists and designers.
In the color department, screen colors are more accurate when using the Night Light feature both with and without ICC profiles, and KWin offers the option to choose screen color accuracy — although this can sometimes affect system performance.
A smaller but still nice detail is that widgets placed on the desktop are very slightly translucent, just like the popups of widgets placed on the panel:
System Monitor monitors CPU usage more accurately, and consumes vastly fewer CPU resources while doing it! If you’re using Plasma 6.3 on FreeBSD, you’re in luck: the System Monitor app and widgets can now collect GPU statistics on your system too.
Info Center also provides more information, exposing data about all of your GPUs as well as your batteries’ cycle counts.
Monitoring printers is equally easy, as each printer’s print queue is shown directly in the widget. The widget also shows a little spinner on any printers that are currently printing, so you can see at a glance which ones are in use.
Plasma already includes a variety of background services that let you know when something has gone wrong and what to do about it. New in Plasma 6.3 is a service that detects when the kernel terminated an app because the system ran out of memory. The service shows a notification explaining what happened, and suggests ways of avoiding this issue in the future.
Moving on to specific tools, Plasma 6.3’s KRunner (the built-in search tool that also does conversions, calculations, definitions, graph plotting, and much more), Discover (Plasma’s software management/app store application), and the Weather Report widget all come with new features and improvements:
KRunner and KRunner-powered searches now let you jump between categories using the Page Up/Page Down keys and Ctrl+Up/Ctrl+Down key combinations.
A security enhancement landing in Discover highlights sandboxed apps whose permissions will change after being updated. This allows you to check on such changes in case you suspect any shady behavior.
In a similar vein, you can now see whether apps are packaged directly by their developer, or verified by a trusted third party.
If you’re a fan of the forecasts provided by Deutscher Wetterdienst, you’re in luck: Plasma 6.3’s weather widget allows using this source for weather data.
Plasma 6.3 makes things easy without ditching flexibility. If you prefer using a mouse with your laptop, you can now configure its built-in touchpad to switch off automatically, so it doesn’t interfere with your typing. Also, if you set up your machine as a network hotspot, Plasma generates a random password for the network so you don’t have to think one up.
Finding help is easier in Plasma 6.3. A “Help” category has been added to the launcher (the menu that tends to live on the left hand side of your panel), and we have removed the Settings category entirely. Its contents have been merged into the System category, reducing the number of categories that don’t offer meaningful grouping.
Speaking of menus, the default Kickoff launcher menu now switches categories only when you click on them, matching the behavior of all other sidebar lists. However, if you preferred the old switch-on-hover behavior, it’s still available too.
We have made things clearer by adding a Show Target item to the desktop context menu for symbolic links, the digital Clock widget displays all events on days with more than five of them (giving you a complete view of upcoming commitments), and when you want to reboot into the bootloader menu the next time your machine reboots, the logout screen now indicates this.
To avoid overwhelming you with too much information, when notifications arrive while Plasma’s “Do Not Disturb” mode is engaged, exiting that mode shows the number of missed notifications, rather than sending them all in one giant torrent.
Additionally, a subtle but important change: when you drag a file out of a window that’s partially below other windows, it no longer jumps to the top, potentially obscuring what you wanted to drag it into!
Finally, what would Plasma be without customization? To begin with, panels can be cloned! You can also use scripting to change your panels’ opacity levels and what screen they appear on.
In Plasma 6.2, we introduced symbolic icons in Kickoff’s category sidebar. Some people didn’t like that, so in 6.3 you can undo the change yourself: we modified the implementation to pull icons from the standard data source, allowing you to set them to whatever you want using the Menu Editor app.
Speaking of the Menu Editor app, editing desktop files for apps from the “Edit Application…” menu item in Kickoff (and other launcher menus) opens the app in the editor, rather than showing you file properties. This lets you easily edit the entire applications list!
If you have ever lost a widget in the process of customizing your system, you’ll love this new feature: in Plasma 6.3, the Widget Explorer gives you the opportunity to remove every instance of a widget, including those that got lost or are only present on unplugged screens.
Dolphin lets you navigate your folders and files, move and copy things from one place to another, connect to file servers and manage everything in your local and remote storage.
It is important to the Dolphin team that you can see what is happening at all times, and we have implemented animations to help you follow every action. For example, dragging a file or folder over another folder triggers a subtle animation if the option to open the folder is enabled. Dolphin's bars also animate when they appear and disappear.
Dolphin also provides more tailored and informative insights into specific folders by default, so when browsing through recently used files and folders, users will find modification times listed by default and have streamlined access to the most recent items. Similarly, the Trash folder now offers detailed information on the time and origin of each deleted file.
During searches, Dolphin has refined its result views to offer more pertinent details. For images, we display dimensions and creation times, while audio files reveal track information such as author, album, and duration. For general searches, results are conveniently accompanied by their respective paths and modification times, so you have all the context you need at your fingertips.
Seamless navigation through interfaces is crucial for users around the world, and our latest update delivers just that. Now, when using right-to-left languages such as Arabic or Hebrew, Dolphin's arrow navigation works flawlessly.
Itinerary now shows more information about your train and coach facilities (where this information is available). This includes general comfort features such as air conditioning or WiFi, as well as things specifically relevant if you are traveling with young children, a bicycle, or a wheelchair. These can also be qualified by availability (e.g. if they require a special reservation) and marked as disrupted. This information is displayed when viewing a train's car layout and when searching for a connection.
The Itinerary team, in collaboration with other open source projects, has started work on a community-run, vendor-neutral international public transport routing service called Transitous. Transitous aims to focus on users' interests rather than on those of public transport operators). It is free to use, respects users' privacy, and does not stop at borders. We are now at a point where public transport information is available for a large part of Europe, and the data for services outside Europe is growing. The amount of information is now large enough that we have decided to enable support for Transitous by default in Itinerary and KTrip.
As with most updates, we've improved the coverage of travel document extractors, as well as adding support for a number of companies including AMSBus, ANA, Deutsche Bahn, Eckerö Line, Elron, European Sleeper, Eurostar, Eventim, Finnair, Flibco, Leo Express, LTG Link, Moongate, National Express, Pasažieru vilciens, Salzbergwerk, SNCF, Thalys, ti.to, Trenitalia and UK National Railways.
NeoChat is a chat app that lets you take full advantage of the Matrix network.
In its newest version, we moved the search to a popup allowing you to search for a conversation independently of the space you are in.
NeoChat will also now scan PDFs and other files sent to the chat for travel documents, and displaying all the relevant information directly in your conversation. All the processing is done on your device and no private information is sent to any third parties servers. Similarly your text documents will be directly displayed in the timeline.
Tokodon brings the Mastodon federated social media platform to your fingertips. With Tokodon you can read, post, and message easily. Now when writing a new post, it is possible to do that in a separate window, allowing you to continue using Tokodon while writing your post.
In this release, we also added a badge counter for follow requests in the sidebar.
Kdenlive is KDE's full-featured video editor that gives you everything you need to build advertisements, documentaries, TV shows, and full-fledged movies.
Version 24.05 adds Group Effects, effects that can be added to clips grouped together all at the same time. You can also reach wider audiences by using an offline AI that can translate your subtitles with the Automatic Subtitle Translations feature.
The feature that allows you to capture audio from your desktop or microphone from directly within Kdenlive is back, and the performance of moving clips with the spacer tool has been hugely improved. The multiple resource bins management feature (bins being the areas where you keep your clips, images, titles and animations) has also been reworked and improved.
Elisa is KDE's elegant and feature-rich music player. Yet another improvement to its already sleek design is that this new version lets you switch between list and grid views.
Ark helps you manage compressed files and archives. Ark can now open and un-archive self-extracting .exe archive files
The date and time picker in Merkuro has been updated and is now significantly faster.
The reading experience on Akregator, KDE's RSS news reader, is more pleasant in this version thanks to a new layout and the support of dark themes.
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