KDE Plasma 6.3 Released With Improved Fractional Scaling & Other Enhancements
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KDE Plasma 6.3)
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- News link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.3-Released
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Out just ahead of Valentine's Day is the much anticipated KDE [1]Plasma 6.3 desktop release for further advancing this Qt6/KF6-based open-source desktop.
KDE Plasma 6.3 brings a whole lot of goodies that have been collected over the past several months.
Some of the key Plasma 6.3 highlights include:
- Improved fractional scaling with KWin to lead to an all-around better desktop experience with fractional scaling as well as when making use of KWin's zoom effect.
- Screen colors are more accurate with the KDE Night Light feature.
- CPU usage monitoring within the KDE System Monitor is now more accurate and consuming fewer CPU resources.
- KDE will now present a notification when the kernel terminated an app because the system ran out of memory.
- Various improvements to the Discover app, including a security enhancement around sandboxed apps.
- The drawing tablet area of KDE System Settings has been overhauled with new features and refinements.
- Many other enhancements and fixes throughout KDE Plasma 6.3.
More details on the Plasma 6.3 desktop release via the announcement this morning on [2]KDE.org .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Plasma+6.3
[2] https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.0/
KDE Plasma 6.3 brings a whole lot of goodies that have been collected over the past several months.
Some of the key Plasma 6.3 highlights include:
- Improved fractional scaling with KWin to lead to an all-around better desktop experience with fractional scaling as well as when making use of KWin's zoom effect.
- Screen colors are more accurate with the KDE Night Light feature.
- CPU usage monitoring within the KDE System Monitor is now more accurate and consuming fewer CPU resources.
- KDE will now present a notification when the kernel terminated an app because the system ran out of memory.
- Various improvements to the Discover app, including a security enhancement around sandboxed apps.
- The drawing tablet area of KDE System Settings has been overhauled with new features and refinements.
- Many other enhancements and fixes throughout KDE Plasma 6.3.
More details on the Plasma 6.3 desktop release via the announcement this morning on [2]KDE.org .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Plasma+6.3
[2] https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.0/
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