Today the KDE Community is announcing a new najor release of Plasma 6.0, and Gear 24.02. KDE Plasma is a modern, feature-rich desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems. Known for its sleek design, customizable interface, and extensive set of applications, it is also open source, devoid of ads, and makes protecting your privacy and personal data a priority.
With Plasma 6, the technology stack has undergone two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of the application framework, Qt 6, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland. They will continue providing support for the legacy X11 session for users who prefer to stick with it for now. The new version brings the new windows and desktop overview, improved colour management, a cleaner theme, more effects, better overall performance, and much more.
It's just been merged to master for NixOS. Next stable would be 24.05
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/286522
https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html?pr=286522
i've been using rc2 for a couple of weeks and it's really good improvement over 5.27, which was also a quite solid release.
I look forward to the havoc this will cause with all my themes and widgets in the coming weeks lol.
Wow. They just lifted the horrific Desktop management paradigm from MacOS.
But I don't know, I guess people like it, and fortunately I'm not forced to use KDE.
Can always change whatever you don't like, that's the strong part of KDE, unlike Gnome where you have to rely on 3rd party extensions and hope they don't break next update.
Always been more of a gnome guy, but 6.0 is making me look over the fence with a little envy! Kongratulations to the KDE team and community. Fantastic work.
I think the Kubuntu folks are mostly working on polishing Plasma 5.27 for Kubuntu 24.04 right now, but I would bet that shortly after its release we'll see 6.0 in the backports PPA.
I doubt that'll be available for 23.10 though, as it'll mess up the upgrade to 24.04.
