Did you know KDE has a television-focused user interface? It’s been languishing for a while now, but a recent week-long effort by KDE developer Devin has brought a lot of new life into the project.
I have been a long time Plasma Mobile contributor, but I have always had a keen interest in having Linux on my TV! I have noticed that in the past few months, the Plasma Bigscreen project has had some interest from people wanting to contribute, but there have not been any active KDE developers working on the project. Since I have some time off school (having just graduated university), I decided to take a swing at improving the project for a week.
↫ Devin, KDE developer
It turned out to be one hell of a productive week, because the list of improvements achieved in that one week is kind of amazing. Lots of overhauls of the visual design, a new search view, complete redesign of the settings panels, and a lot more. The idea of running a KDE Plasma-based interface on my TVs sounds incredibly appealing, and I hope the project can make even more progress.
It looks cool
Just needs apps..
SteamLink (who are we kidding Moonlight is a better product)
Jellyfin client
ChannelsDVR
HDHomeRun
Can you create web apps or shortcuts with Aura Browser? Like go to https://tv.youtube.com and then create an item in the launcher to have Aura Browser open to that page and act like it’s an app?
Some way to watch streaming apps (Android container?)
If your current distro of choice has those apps, this will be able to use them. It is only a desktop environment aimed at the 10 foot interface.
I used it on EndeavourOS about 2 years ago, but I realized that all I really wanted was Emby theater to launch on startup, the desktop became irrelevant. If this were on an firestick or something like that, it would basically be a launcher replacement. A damn fine one since there are no ads!