The big new version of the other desktop, complete with improved HDR and a spinning desktop cube
We will continue providing support for the legacy X11 session for users who prefer to stick with it for now., if your monitor supports high dynamic range – and your eyes are good enough. If you have problems with color vision, there are also several modes which reduce color usage, a featurein 2021. Sadly, though, not only is it off by default, but even when enabled it isn't how Plasma switches between virtual desktops – it's an optional extra with its own keystroke.
Plasma 6 looks and works very much like Plasma 5.27, complete with the same inconsistencies as in the previous version. For example, some components, such as the System Info and Settings programs, say they're version 6.0; others, such as the Dolphin file manager, say they're version 24.02.00. Others accessories, such as the Kate and Kwrite text editors – both, incidentally, version 24.02.00 – have traditional menu bars. Some programs, such as the Discover software store, have neither. Here atdislike hamburger menus, and we hoped to see an option to permanently banish them across the whole of KDE – and. Since KDE is famed for its customizability, we feel that this is a prime candidate for a global setting, but we couldn't find one.
If you weren't a KDE enthusiast before, there's nothing here to tempt you. Version 6 fails to remove the duplication of features, the mismatched UIs of different components, and the overcomplexity of the environment as a whole. It's just as complex and fiddly as it has been for the last decade and a half. At least the wretched
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