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The latest release of one of the finest desktop environments on the market is here, and there's plenty to be excited about.
KDE Plasma 6.7 has finally arrived, and the development team decided to add a few extra features and polish into the mix, some of which you might find rather interesting.
The thing about KDE Plasma is that it's already one of the finest desktop environments on the market. It's gorgeous, stable, highly user-friendly, but also flexible, and it performs more like a lightweight desktop akin to Xfce. So, when the developers offer a release that's even better, you can be sure it's worth installing.
Given that this is a new point release (.7 as it were), you shouldn't expect earth-shattering-kaboom-like new features, as you might with a major release (such as 7.0). Even so, for a point release, there are some pretty cool new options.
For instance, there's the new global mic mute hotkey. Think about it: You're using an app that shouldn't have access to your mic, but you find that it's being used anyway. Instead of having to go through the Settings app or the system tray to mute the mic, you can use the new global mic mute hotkey. By clicking the preconfigured hotkey on your keyboard, the mic is automatically muted. This can also work when you're in a video or audio meeting, and you need to quickly mute your mic for some reason. For anyone who regularly uses a mic, this will be a handy feature to have.
The Plasma Bigscreen mode (which allows you to mirror your desktop on a TV) has finally arrived in full force, so you can view your desktop on a large-screen TV without it looking stretched, blurry, or otherwise wonky.
Version 6.7 also delivers on the promised per-screen virtual desktops, which means you can customize virtual desktops on a per-monitor basis. Maybe you have two or three monitors, and you want to set up specific virtual desktops for each. With KDE Plasma 6.7, you can do that. For example, you could have one monitor for coding, and on that monitor you could have virtual desktops for your IDEs, one for your terminal apps, and one for your debugging apps. You could have your second monitor set up with two virtual desktops: one for web browsing and one for productivity.