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 set the entire UI to grayscale, as well as a brand new virtual keyboard. Other new accessibility features include tracking the mouse cursor when using the zoom feature, a reduced motion setting, and more. Spectacle gets a text extraction feature and a feature to exclude windows from screen recordings. There’s also a new optional login manager, optimised for Wayland, a new first-run setup wizard, and much more.
As always, KDE 6.6 will find its way to your distribution’s repositories soon enough.
People, like me, do NOT see in white, black and greys! The PROPER term should be “shade challenged” because we DO see in color, it’s just that are color scale is shifted compared to everyone else and YES, we MIGHT see less colors than other people. And there isn’t one version of color but literally millions of different “versions” of colorblindness.
Ok. It is important to you because it is part of the condition. But what do you REALLY WANT HERE? What is your point with that information?
If there are “literally millions” of different versions of colorblindness, wouldn’t it be better to just categorize them under the colorblind umbrella to keep the changelog and configuration options clean? Plasma might not have implemented ALL these “literally million” versions yet.
It’s kind of a duality here. You want to be treated special with your condition, complaining about the words used by an opensource project, but also, you are aware that there are too many to be listed.
What do you suggest here?
Colorblind is still better than daltonic. =)
It is not a great term, but why the rage?
PS: Also colorblind.
What causes this level of victim complex? And why are so many of you perpetual victims attracted to OSNews?
Ive been here a log time, since long before Thom came on the scene but things have changed over the last few years. Ive become tired of the perpetual victims and politics on a tech blog over the last few years. Its not even a good tech blog any longer, its not like Thom has the faintest idea what is being discussed most of the time and most of the good commentators are long since gone
Using my backup account in case someone gets butthurt and I want to come back in the future
I wish you good fortune in the future, but Im out. Im so tired of this victim hood nonsense in the tech world. I get enough of it during my day job, though fortunately many of the lazy, incompetent perpetual victims have been laid off recently
Colorblind filter <3 <3 <3 <3
Wonder if they have made any strides with the accessibility tech that forced me to abandon Linux. Eye tracking, Quad Stick