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KDE Plasma 6.8 Released, Marks 30 Years Of The KDE Project (www.phoronix.com)
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The feature-packed and polished Plasma 6.8 KDE desktop is now available. Making this release all the more special is that it coincides with the 30th anniversary of the KDE project.

KDE Plasma 6.8 ships many exciting improvements including vRAM usage optimizations, dwell clicker support on Wayland, Wayland commit-timing protocol support for KWin, improvements for the Union theme engine, better remote desktop support, multi-GPU handling improvements, the new kscreenctl tool, server-side drop shadow support, multi-monitor improvements, and a lot of other polishing throughout. Especially from the Wayland angle there has been a lot of polishing and fine tuning for Plasma 6.8.

Congrats to the kde team!

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[–] [S] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Just want to thank the kde team for their awesome efforts

Good to see kde evolve over the years, and crazy to think of how much it's changed from the beginning.

It basically saved my Linux desktop a few years ago when gnome was struggling playing games and I could use game mode in kde as an example, but they've had lots of good ideas during that time too

Really looking forward to the upcoming quick preview implementation in dolphin they might be adding soon too

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    [–] [S] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    There is alternative news source at https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-8-desktop-environment-officially-released-heres-whats-new

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    [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    And here's the documentary, premiering today:
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyzla9mx4g

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    [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    6.7, I hardly knew thee. 🙃

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    [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Huh, guess I should test whether it still kills all graphics output (turns screens into static) when I turn off 1 out of 2 screens and then turn it back on.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I've never come across that issue

    What gpu? Have you reported it btw?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    I came across a post/report that (although relatively old 2025ish/early2026?, wasn't solved) which detailed the issue same as mine.
    AMD dGPU, though that part doesn't seem to matter according to above-mentioned post, and 2 or more displays connected with different resolutions/refresh rates and utilizing different version of DisplayPort. The latter was assumed to be the culprit but I don't exactly have a choice to swap one of the displays to test.
    I haven't had an issue with it until about August/Sept, but as I am on CachyOS, any number of updates could have broken it during that period.

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    • [–] [S] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    If you haven't already btw, consider donating or starting bounties for features you want https://kde.org/donate/

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