KDE Plasma 6.7 has more useful features than I expected – and you will probably find them soon

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• KDE Plasma 6.7 has been released.
• There are great features, although this is a point release.
• You can wait until it reaches the final distro or try KDE Neon.

KDE Plasma 6.7 is finally here, and the development team decided to add a few more features and polishes to the mix, some of which you might find very interesting.

The thing about KDE Plasma is that it’s already one of the best desktop environments on the market. It’s beautiful, stable, easy to use, but also flexible, and works like a lightweight desktop like Xfce. Therefore, when the developers offer the best release, you can be sure that it is worth installing it.

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But what features can you expect to find in KDE Plasma 6.7? Let’s talk.

New features

Given that this is a new point release (.7 as it were), you shouldn’t expect new features like earth-shattering-kaboom, as you would have had a major release (like 7.0). However, to get the point across, there are some great new options.

For example, there is a new global mute hotkey. Imagine this: You’re using an app that shouldn’t have access to your microphone, but you find that it’s being used anyway. Instead of going through the Settings app or the system tray to mute the microphone, you can use a new hotkey to mute the microphone.

By clicking a preset hotkey on your keyboard, the microphone is automatically muted. This can also be useful if you are in a video or audio meeting, and need to quickly mute your microphone for some reason. For anyone who regularly uses a microphone, this will be a useful feature to have.

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Plasma Bigscreen mode (which lets you mirror your desktop on a TV) is finally here in full, so you can view your desktop on a big-screen TV without it looking stretched, blurry, or otherwise wonky.

Version 6.7 also brings the promised virtual desktops for each screen, allowing you to customize them 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 just that.

For example, you can have a single monitor for coding, with virtual desktops for your IDE, terminal, and debugging applications. You could have your second monitor set up with two virtual desktops: one for web browsing and one for productivity.

The sky is the limit on that.

Other new features include:

• A new print queue viewer
• Wayland session recovery
• Support for typing irregular characters
• Ability to extract windows from screens and screenshots
• Multi-GPU swapchain for Vulkan
• New setup UI for setting up printers from a shared network
• Custom sound themes
• Restored Air theme and improved Oxygen theme
• Easy light/dark theme switching
• Remote control notifications
• Smart KRunner results
• Global hotkey to clear notification history
• 3D LUTS support that helps reduce GPU load in heavy graphics processes
• To change the theme of the morning

There are also improvements to all default apps, such as those found in System Settings and KDE Discover.

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Of course, what’s a new release without bug fixes, and 6.7 includes a lot of them. You can view the full list of bug fixes (and the full feature/improvement list) in the official release notes.

When can you expect KDE Plasma 6.7?

This is the tricky part, as each distribution will need to find the latest release from the common repositories. Because of this, there is no hard-coded time frame for when this will happen. Hopefully, your distribution of choice will add KDE Plasma 6.7 soon.

Until then, if you’re eager to try the latest version, you can always use a KDE Neon or KDE Linux virtual machine (or install one of them on a Spare PC). No matter how you go, you should be excited about the upcoming release of KDE 6.7.

I know that I am.