KDE Weekly Update: Plasma 6.2 Beta Released!

The KDE community brings major news this week - Plasma 6.2 Beta version is officially released ! This release focuses on improving stability and reliability and includes many exciting new features.

Table of contents

- New features in Plasma 6.2 Beta

• Exclusive to artists
• Power management and system updates
• Accessibility and design improvements
• Download Plasma 6.2 Beta
• Beta version
• Error fixes and performance improvements

New features in Plasma 6.2 Beta

Exclusive to artists

Digital art lovers, get ready for surprises! Plasma 6.2 brings a range of improvements to make your creative process smoother.

More powerful drawing board control

Now you have better control over the stylus keys, screen mapping, and calibration settings of the drawing board.

Color Management

In addition, KWin's Wayland color management protocol support is now enabled. This means you can use the monitor’s built-in color profile data to make colors more accurate and brighter.

Power management and system updates

Plasma 6.2 is committed to improving system efficiency and user-friendliness in power management and system updates.

Brightness adjustment per monitor

Now you can adjust the brightness of each monitor individually, which would be a huge advantage if you use multiple screens.

For more details, please visit the following link:

• KDE Plasma 6.2 launches brightness control function per monitor

Sleep and screen lock

Apps that can now be covered that prevent the system from sleeping or locking the screen, giving you greater control over your workflow.

Battery widgets

The battery widget has also been updated with some updates, adding a power profile badge and staying visible during charging.

System update

In terms of system updates, you now have the option to shut down the system after installation. KDE's app store Discover also adds support for PostmarketOS and improves app review capabilities.

Accessibility and design improvements

Plasma 6.2 makes the desktop easier to access and more visually appealing.

Sticky bonds

Wayland now fully supports sticky keys for easy use by those in need.

Accessible KCM

Accessibility settings have been redesigned to bring a better experience.

Visual effects

Visually, this update brings accent color support to the Breeze Dark and Twilight themes, redesigns the system tray grid view, and modernizes UI updates to various components.

SVG Cursor

It also includes initial support for the SVG cursor theme, adding a touch of personalized customization to your desktop.

Download Plasma 6.2 Beta

If you want to experience all these good things, download Plasma 6.2 Beta and try it out. The KDE website provides real-time images, Docker images and software package downloads.

• Download a live image containing Plasma
• Download the Docker image containing Plasma
• Package download

For Arch-based distributions, the kde-unstable repository hosts version 6.2 beta. Remember that using unstable repositories can cause system instability and is therefore recommended for users who can handle potential problems only.

KDE Neon users can try out the 6.2 Beta version using Neon beta . This release is designed to test for upcoming releases and may not be suitable for daily use.

Remember that since this is a beta version, you may experience errors or instability. Before trying Beta software, it is best to back up important data.

Beta version

While Plasma 6.2 Beta is the lead role this week, there are other improvements this week.

Immutable Tools View Tab

The Immutable Tools View tab gets a brand new style, though you will have to wait until Plasma 6.3 to see them everywhere.

Power profile

The Meta B shortcut keys for switching power profiles have been improved to sequentially loop through the profiles.

System Settings

The login screen page in system settings has been visually improved and now displays a clearer preview image.

Error fixes and performance improvements

Window Management

In terms of bug fixes and performance, serious crash issues related to window management have been fixed.

Multi-GPU system

The KWin performance bottleneck affecting multi-GPU systems has been resolved, which also benefited Plasma Mobile on Librem 5 phones.

That's all this week. The release of Plasma 6.2 Beta is an important milestone. Please feel free to get involved, test the beta version, and report any issues you have.

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