Plasma 6 has come into its own over the last two releases. The wrinkles that always come with a major migration have been ironed out, and it’s time to start delivering on the promises of the new Qt 6 and Wayland technology platforms that Plasma is built on top of.

One of the outstanding issues has been to make Plasma a more artist-friendly environment by providing full support for the hardware that creative people need to get their work done.

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Plasma 6.2 includes a smorgasbord of new features for users of drawing tablets. Open System Settings and look for Drawing Tablet to see various tools for configuring drawing tablets.

New in Plasma 6.2: a tablet calibration wizard and test mode; a feature to define the area of the screen that your tablet covers (the whole screen or a section); and the option to re-bind pen buttons to different kinds of mouse clicks.

All this is built into Plasma; there’s no need to install new drivers or software from device manufacturers.

And if your tablet is not yet supported, “We care about your Input” is a community-wide project that aims to provide support for unusual input devices. Let us know about your device so we can add it to the list!

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Related to the above — and to ensure consistent colors across monitors — we’ve implemented more complete support for the Wayland color management protocol, and enabled it by default.

We have also improved brightness handling for HDR and ICC profiles, as well as HDR performance. This will improve your experience when designing graphics, playing games, and watching videos.

A new tone mapping feature built into Plasma’s KWin compositor will help improve the look of images with a brightness or set of colors greater than what the screen can display, thus reducing the “blown out” look such images can otherwise exhibit.

Power Management

Managing how much energy your system consumes and when are not only important for preserving its resources for when you need them, but also for using it in an environmentally responsible way.

You can now override misbehaving applications that block the system from going to sleep or locking the screen (and thus prevent saving power), and you can also adjust the brightness of each connected monitor machine separately.

As for the Power and Battery widget, it not only shows how much power is remaining, but also allows you to adjust power profiles for different scenarios. New in Plasma 6.2: hold down the Meta (Windows) key and press B to cycle through the different options one at a time. A little badge of a leaf will show up on the battery icon to indicate when the system is in power save mode, and a rocket for performance mode.

Discover and System Updating

Another thing we put you in complete control of is your software.

Plasma’s built-in app store and software management tool, Discover, now supports PostmarketOS packages for your mobile devices, helps you write better reviews of apps, and presents apps’ license information more accurately.

You can also now choose to shut down the system after applying an offline system update, in addition to the existing option to restart afterwards.

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Since we made improving accessibility a community-wide project, we have increased the ways in which Plasma is easy to use for everyone.

In Plasma 6.2, we overhauled System Settings’ Accessibility page and added colorblindness filters. We also added support for the full “sticky keys” feature on Wayland.

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Eta jakina, kaleratze batetik hurrengora, Plasmaren itxura eta izaera hobetzea beti da lehentasun handi bat.

In Plasma 6.2, we tweaked accent colors and the System Tray, reworked the Widget Explorer, and unified the look of dialogs and pop-ups. Finally, we improved the Welcome Center, sound effects, and actions.

Aldaketa horietako asko sotilak dira, baina esperientzia leunagoa eta gozagarriagoa ekarriko dute.

Plasma 6k oinkada ematen du 6.1 bertsioarekin. Plasma 6.0ren xedea bere oinarrian dagoen Qt 6 frameworks azpiegiturara migrazioa zuzen egitea zuen bitartean (eta nolako lan itzela), 6.1 da, garatzaileak zure mahaigaina maila berri batera eramango duten ezaugarriak inplementatzen hasteko lekua.

Kaleratze honetan, gaien aldaketa sotiletatik eta animazioen doikuntzetatik askoz haratago doazen ezaugarriak aurkituko dituzu (nahiz eta horiek ere ugari izan), urruneko makinetako mahaigainekin elkarreraginean murgiltzen zarenean, erabilgarritasun eta irisgarritasun hobekuntza ugariekin emankorrago bilakatzean, eta zure ordenagailuko hardwareari ere eragingo dioten pertsonalizazioak ezagutzen dituzunean.

Ezaugarri horiek eta gehiago eraikitzen ari dira zuzenean Plasmaren Wayland bertsioan era natiboan, «X»n inplementatutako antzeko soluzioek eskatzen dituzten hirugarrenen software eta sasiko hedapenen beharra saihestuz.

Hemendik aurrera gauzak insteresgarriagoak izango dira. Bitartean, goza ezazu hurrengo eguneratzean zure mahaigainean lurreratuko denarekin.

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Sartu urruneko Plasma mahaiganetara

Plasma 6.1ean gehitutako ezaugarri ikusgarrienetako bat (eta erabilgarrienetakoa), Sistemaren ezarpenetatik zuzenean urruneko mahaigain bat abiatzeko aukera da. Horrek esan nahi du, erabiltzaileen makinetako arazoak konpondu behar dituen sistema administratzailea bazara, edo besterik gabe zure irismenetik kanpo dagoen Plasma darabilen ordenagailu batean lan egin behar baduzu, konexio bat ezartzea klik gutxi batzuetara besterik ez dagoela.

Gaituta dagoenean, urruneko mahaigainera konekta zaitezke KRDC gisako bezero bat erabiliz. Urruneko makinaren Plasma mahaigaina leiho batean ikusiko duzu eta zure ordenagailutik harekin elkarreragin ahal izango duzu.

Neurrira egokitzea bisuala(go) egin da

Guztiok maite dugu gure Plasma mahaigainak gure neurrira egokitzea, ezta? Hori egiteko era azkarrenetako bat Plasmaren Edizio Moduan sartzea da (mahaigainaren atzeko planoan edozein lekutan eskuineko klik egin eta menutik Sartu Editatzeko modura hautatu).

6.1 bertsioan, Edizio moduaren ikus-itxura berraztertu egin da eta orain, aktibatzen duzunean, itxura zainduko animazio bat ikusiko duzu. Mahaigain osoaren zooma era leunean urruntzen da, gertatzen ari denaren ikuspegi orokor hobea emanez eta zure aldaketak erraz egiteko aukera emanez.

Aplikazio iraunkorrak

Plasma 6.1ek Wayland-en, orain, azken saioan egiten ari zinena gogoratzeko ezaugarri bat du, «X11»n egiten duenaren antzera. Oraindik lantzen ari den zerbait den arren, dozena bat leiho irekita duzula saioa itxi eta ordenagailua itzaltzen baduzu, Plasmak, orain, haiek irekiko ditu zure mahaigaina abiatzen duzun hurrengo aldian, egiten ari zinen horretara azkarrago eta errazago itzultzea erraztuz.

Sinkronizatu zure teklatuko koloretako LEDak

Ez litzateke Plasmaren kaleratze berri bat izango, neurrira ipin daitekeen ezaugarri estetiko dotore bat gutxienez izango ez balu. Oraingo honetan, ordea, pantailatik harantzako, teklaturaino iristeko gaitasuna ematen dizugu, zure teklatuko LEDen koloreak zure mahaigaina nabarmentzeko koloreekin bat etortzeko sinkronizatu baititzakezu.

Erabiltzaile moda-zaleentzako azken berrikuntza.

Kontuan izan ezaugarri hau ez dela ibiliko euskarririk gabeko teklatuetan — teklatu osagarrietarako euskarria bidean da!

Dolphin

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

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.

Kdenlive

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.

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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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Non lortu KDE aplikazioak

Nahiz eta gure softwarea kaleratzen duten banaketak erabat babesten ditugun, laster, KDE Gear 24.05 aplikazioak Linux aplikazio biltegi hauetan ere erabilgarri egongo da:

Aplikazio-biltegietan KDE aplikazio gehiago ipintzen, aplikazio-biltegi gehiagorako euskarria izaten eta gure garapen prozesuan aplikazioak hobeto integratuta izaten lagundu nahi badiguzu, zatoz kaixo esatera gure «All About the Apps» berriketa gelara.