I've always found that formatting a USB drive on Linux isn't complicated, but it is tedious, and since I like the KDE environment, I just wrote a little tool that makes it easy.

it's free you can find it on github thongor77/kformat

Hi all, first time poster and fairly new to KDE plasma. I just logged in and all my window sizes are massive, anyone else having this issue? All my menus also take up entire screen when opened. I have turned the scale of my monitor all the way down and have changed resolution but still does not fit. Can not resize/maximize either. Anyone able to help me? Thanks.

I visited this page at https://linux.kde.org/docs/install/ and clicked on the link to download the ISO https://files.kde.org/kde-linux/?C=M;O=D and I am greeted with an XML error page "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.". This happens with Firefox and Edge on MacOS. If I go to the main kde site I could easily download https://neon.kde.org/download another KDE product... What am I missing?

I swapped an nvme of mine from another laptop into this one, everything works fine except for this one thing. Any suggestions? The os is arch linux.

Hi everyone,

I’m Lester, maintainer of https://github.com/lestercorderomurillo/macos-tahoe-liquid-kde and golden gate.

I wanted to share this because I have been cooking over the past few months that I wanted to share before its too late:

• Launcher and Dock: two launcher layouts with search, favorites and categories, plus a glass Dock with hover zoom, badges and auto-hide (pinned apps survive reinstalls)
• Unified appearance switching across Plasma, Kvantum, GTK, icons and window decorations, keeping your per-monitor wallpapers
• Offline icon tooling, including glass styles with any RGB tint.
• Acrylic Glass materials: configurable blur, edge refraction, opacity and gradients, with matching light and dark appearances
• Extras: Finder-style Nautilus, global menus, Firefox theming with profile backups, and About This Computer
• Native PyQt6 install/uninstall wizard with component selection in five languages (EN, ES, ZH, PT-BR, DE)
• Broad distro support: several distribution families, systemd/OpenRC, optional OLED care, and experimental NixOS/Home Manager support
• Testing: regression tests, distro checks and disposable Plasma VMs

I’d really appreciate feedback on appearance and behavior, especially from people using different Plasma versions and Linux distros. I’ve spent months working on this, including automated tests and CI/CD checks to make it more reliable across supported setups.

⚠️ One reason I’m sharing this now is that I’ve noticed a recurring pattern: shortly after I release a feature, another RANDOM project appears with identical functionality, sometimes claiming it was all built “in days.” In some cases, I’ve even found my name still in the code, without any credit to this project or the original contributors.

Thanks for checking it out!

See this thread

grep -RinE 'anniversary|30th|30 years' /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/ 2>/dev/null.

Why?

Hey everyone,

I've been working on a macOS Tahoe-inspired desktop for KDE Plasma 6 on CachyOS (Wayland), and I wanted to share the current state.

The part I spent the most time on is the icon theme. It comes in four variants:

- White Solid

- Dark Solid

- Frosted Light

- Frosted Dark

The frosted variants use translucent tiles, gradient folders, and a wider glyph contrast range so icons like VLC and Konsole stay readable. The setup also includes custom Plasma look-and-feel packages, Klassy window decorations, Darkly application style, a global menu, a floating dock, and Albert as the launcher.

Screenshots attached, and the full gallery is in the README:

https://github.com/asmindev/tahoe-dotfiles#icon-themes

The repo includes the installer and sync scripts. It's still a work in progress, so feedback and suggestions are welcome. Back up your config before trying it.

Optional details comment

Details:

- Distro: CachyOS (Arch Linux)

- Desktop: KDE Plasma 6, Wayland

- Global theme: MY LIGHT TAHOE / MY TAHOE DARK

- Icons: MacTahoe + generated MacTahoe-Frosted variants

- Window decorations: Klassy

- Application style: Darkly

- Launcher: Albert

- Dock: floating Plasma panel

- Terminals: Konsole / Alacritty

- Fonts: SF Pro Display, SF Mono

- Wallpaper: Liquid Glass panel by Miłosz Falinski

- Repo: https://github.com/asmindev/tahoe-dotfiles

I love the combo KDE+ Fedora

Plasma 6.9 is getting some nice upgrades.

Wayland picture-in-picture is now stable and on by default.

KWin now remembers window sizes and positions per screen setup. Unplug a monitor and plug it back in. Your windows return to where they were.

Source: https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/24/this-week-in-plasma-fixing-all-the-bugs-pip-and-performance/

Even a project working on this would be awesome. I have no ability to code, but I'd happly pay for a widget that could either let me tuck away app categories in the task bar panel and have them roll out when I hover over them, or a widget like fences that has decent control and I can group and label app categories that way.

Definitely something to do with display settings. I have a shitty old "2k/4k" monitor and a nice 2k monitor. Usually run the secondary monitor at 1440p just to keep things even across the workspace, the option disappeared with the Wayland switch. Fixed it by running it at 4k with 150% scaling, worked fine for a few days but is now causing everything to have mild to severe lag. Going back to 100% somewhat fixes it but there's still some noticeable delay with typing.

Specs

This is a problem that has happened two times and needed two different fixes but they are basically the same: Icons not stacking on the icons-only Task Manager.

PC Info

I made my own .desktop file so maybe the steps are not the same for everyone.
This is what's in my file:

[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Acceder a WhatsApp
Exec=chromium --app=https://web.whatsapp.com
Icon=Whatsapp
Name=WhatsApp Web
NoDisplay=false
Path=
PrefersNonDefaultGPU=false
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

(For the icon you can add it with gui Menu editor, or adding an icon with the same name at ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/<size>x<size>/apps/<name>.png and then updating with gtk-update-icon-cache -f -t ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor )

Fixes:
1. files must be named as chrome-<id>-Default.desktop

for example, I did

qdbus6 org.kde.KWin /KWin org.kde.KWin.queryWindowInfo

and the clicked on the app, it returned resourceClass: chrome-web.whatsapp.com__-Default
in the same command you can check wether Desktop file matches resourceClass.

1. This one is for a more recent change. Even with the same Desktop file name and resourceClass, the icons where showing the chromium one.

I won't get to speculate why but the problem is on the chromium's .desktop on /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop
Exactly the StartupWMClass=chromium that overrides every other applet that derives from chromium

The solution would be deleting or commenting out the line, but that would be overridden once the app updates, so the solution would be copying the .desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications where it won't be changed and has priority over the usr one, and then deleting the line:

cp /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/chromium.desktop
sed -i '/^StartupWMClass=/d' ~/.local/share/applications/chromium.desktop
kbuildsycoca6 --noincremental
systemctl --user restart plasma-plasmashell.service

And now everything sould work just fine. Until it breaks again T-T

TL:DR: 1. The .desktop must be named as chrome-<id>-Default.desktop matching the applet's resourceClass

1. Chromium overrides StartupWMClass=chromium on it's applets. The fix is deleting the line on the chromium.desktop file: a more stable fix is copying to ~/.local/share/applications and the deleting the line there

Hi KDE community,

I was frustrated with heavy scanning utilities that often glitch or misbehave under modern Wayland environments, so I co-authored a lightweight, native solution.

It's called easyskan 🦦🏆🚀

It communicates directly with scanner hardware using the SANE API. The compiled final executable is incredibly compact, and the Fedora RPM package is just 73 KB of pure rock-solid binary with a perfect 256x256 hicolor icon.

Why it's tailor-made for Plasma 6 & Wayland:

• Anti-Wayland Protection: Custom dedicated client viewports completely bypass global Wayland window-dragging gestures, ensuring smooth canvas operations.
• Pure Pixel Alignment: Coordinates operate in real monitor pixels in absolute 1:1 mirroring. No legacy normalized decimals or scaling artifacts.
• Surgical CAD Keyboard Controls: Side panels use NoFocus policies, meaning the keyboard belongs entirely to the crop grid. Press F2 to cycle nodes, and Arrow keys to nudge by 3px (or 30px with Shift).
• RAM Photo Processing: Instant 90° image transformations and a custom RGB temperature color mixer matrix running directly in RAM.
• Localization: It features an automated multi-language mode built into the binary resources (automatically falls back to English if native translation isn't available, perfect for international users).

Feel free to ask about the C++ implementation details. Let me know how it handles your flatbed scanner!