A Kde Plasma Feature 20 Years In The Making Is Finally Here - Here's How It Works

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• KDE Plasma 6.6 will see a caller workspaces feature.
• The caller characteristic goes a agelong measurement to amended multi-monitor setups. 
• The merchandise should get successful early 2026.

The KDE squad has decided to yet bring to life a characteristic that has been agelong requested. This characteristic (which was first floated astir 20 years ago) is geared specifically toward multi-monitor setups and will alteration nan measurement nan desktop useful for nan better.

This caller characteristic is planned for KDE Plasma 6.6 and is each astir workspaces. With workspaces, you fundamentally get aggregate desktops that you tin move betwixt to create an businesslike environment. You tin person 1 desktop dedicated to productivity, 1 for creativity, 1 for societal media, etc.

Currently, pinch KDE Plasma and multi-monitor setups, erstwhile you move workspaces, each monitors move to nan aforesaid workspace, and you can't dedicate 1 show to 1 configuration and nan different to another. This has been due, successful part, to nan limitations of X11. However, pinch nan wide take of Wayland, a desktop tin do more, and nan KDE developers are taking afloat advantage of that.

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With nan upcoming release, location will beryllium a caller action that will make multi-monitor users very happy. Essentially, nan caller characteristic allows you to move desktops only connected your superior monitor, while nan secondary show remains connected nan original.

This lets you activity connected 2 different workspaces simultaneously. As a multi-monitor user, this characteristic earnestly appeals to maine because it gives maine a overmuch much elastic moving environment. I tin group nan secondary show up pinch collaboration apps, and past nan superior show pinch aggregate workspaces and move betwixt them only connected nan superior monitor, while nan secondary show remains stationary.

Keep successful mind that pinch this setup, nan secondary show will not person nan workspaces characteristic available, truthful you'll person a superior show pinch workspaces and a secondary show without. 

More updates

Other caller additions include:

• The expertise to link to a web pinch a QR codification wrong nan NetworkManager
• The DrKonqi clang newsman will beryllium alert erstwhile non-KDE applications clang and let you to nonstop reports
• A caller all-screens trigger for hot-corner effects, little representation usage 
• The removal of tiled wallpapers (although location is simply a plugin to adhd nan characteristic back)

KDE Plasma is 1 of nan astir beautiful and elastic desktop environments connected nan market. Not only is it a activity of art, but it's besides a desktop that anyone tin get up to velocity pinch quickly because it follows nan accepted desktop metaphor. There's a panel, a commencement menu, desktop icons, and a strategy tray — everything you need.

And soon you'll person nan expertise to do much pinch less.