KDE Plasma 6.6 Released

KDE Plasma 6.6 Released! New Initial Setup & OCR Support in Spectacle

After almost 4 months of development, KDE announced the new major 6.6 version of its Plasma desktop yesterday. The new version of this popular Linux desktop environment introduced a new on-screen keyboard (aka virtual keyboard), that will be automatically enabled when there’s no real keyboard detected. Plasma new on-screen keyboard (image from kde.org). Spectacle, the built-in screenshot tool now has OCR support. After installed tesseract packag…

KDE Plasma 6.6 released – OSnews

KDE Plasma 6.6 has been released, and brings with a whole slew of new features. You can save any combination of themes as a global theme, and there’s a new feature allowing you to increase or decrease the contrast of frames and outlines. If your device has a camera, you can now scan Wi-F settings from QR codes, which is quite nice if you spend a lot of time on the road. There’s a new colour filter for people who are colour blind, allowing you to…

KDE Plasma 6.6 Released

Longtime Slashdot reader jrepin writes: KDE Plasma is a popular desktop (and mobile too) environment for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. Among other things, it also powers the desktop mode of the Steam Deck gaming handheld. The KDE community today announced the latest release: Plasma 6.6. In this new major release, Spectacle can recognize texts from screenshots, a new on-screen keyboard and new login manager are available for te…

KDE Plasma 6.6: Screenshot OCR, Custom Themes & More

KDE Plasma 6.6 release lets you extract text from screenshots, control app volume from the taskbar, save custom themes and fixes the 60Hz animation cap. You're reading KDE Plasma 6.6 is out – screenshot OCR, refresh rate fix + more, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.