KDE Plasma

{{Main|KDE Plasma 4}}

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Plasma 4 was released as part of KDE Software Compilation 4 and replacing the KDesktop shell, Kicker taskbar, and SuperKaramba widget engine, which formed the Desktop in earlier KDE releases.{{Cite journal |last=Mielewczik |first=Michael |date=2009 |title=Aufgebrezelt. Gnome und KDE aufgepeppt. |journal=LinuxLife |language=German |volume=1/2009 |pages=18–21}} They are bundled as the default environment with a number of free software operating systems, such as Chakra,{{Cite web |title=Chakra Project |url=http://chakra-project.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219085751/http://www.chakra-project.org/ |archive-date=19 December 2012 |access-date=26 November 2010}} Kubuntu,{{Cite web |title=Kubuntu website |url=http://www.kubuntu.org/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823065027/http://www.kubuntu.org/ |archive-date=23 August 2011 |access-date=6 November 2010}} Mageia (DVD version),{{Cite web |title=Mageia 2 and the default GNOME 3 desktop |url=http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/05/18/mageia-2-and-the-default-gnome-3-desktop/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510071109/http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/05/18/mageia-2-and-the-default-gnome-3-desktop/ |archive-date=10 May 2013 |access-date=23 September 2013 |publisher=LinuxBSDos.com}} openSUSE,{{Cite news |last=Ryan Paul |date=21 August 2009 |title=OpenSUSE community konfesses love for KDE, makes it default |url=https://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/08/opensuse-community-konfesses-love-for-kde-makes-it-default.ars |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509074154/http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/08/opensuse-community-konfesses-love-for-kde-makes-it-default.ars |archive-date=9 May 2012 |access-date=21 September 2023 |publisher=Condé Nast Digital |agency=Ars technica}} or TrueOS.{{Cite web |title=About | Ideal for desktop or server |url=http://www.pcbsd.org/en/about/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926164823/http://www.pcbsd.org/en/about/ |archive-date=26 September 2013 |access-date=23 September 2013 |publisher=PC-BSD}}{{Cite web |last=Sean Michael Kerner |date=31 January 2014 |title=FreeBSD Open-Source OS Comes to the PC-BSD Desktop |url=http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/slideshows/freebsd-open-source-os-comes-to-the-pc-bsd-desktop.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140205012035/http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/slideshows/freebsd-open-source-os-comes-to-the-pc-bsd-desktop.html |archive-date=5 February 2014 |access-date=12 February 2014 |publisher=Eweek.com}}

From KDE SC 4.0 to KDE SC 4.2, the default theme, "Oxygen", was characterized by dark tones. In KDE SC 4.3, it was replaced by the new "Air" theme, which predominates in transparency and white as the base color. New themes for Plasma can be chosen and installed through software like Discover or online at store.kde.org.

With the release of KDE SC 4.11 on 14 August 2013, Plasma 4 was placed into a feature freeze and turned into a long-term stable package until August 2015. On 15 July 2014, Plasma 4's successor, Plasma 5, was released.{{Cite web |date=15 July 2014 |title=New Plasma brings a cleaner interface on top of a new graphics stack |url=http://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924161821/https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0/ |archive-date=24 September 2015 |access-date=18 July 2015 |website=kde.org |publisher=KDE}}

Plasma features containments, which are essentially applets that contain other applets. Two examples of containments are the desktop background and the taskbar. A containment can be anything the developer wants: an image (either raster graphics or an SVG image), animation, or even OpenGL. Images are most commonly used, but with Plasma the user could set any applet as the desktop background without losing functionality of the applet. This also allows for applets to be dragged between the desktop and the taskbar (two separate containments), and have a separate visualization for the more confined taskbar.

Plasma separates components into "data engine" and their visualization counterparts. This is intended to reduce the total programming effort when there are multiple possible visualizations of given data, and to make it easier for the data engine and the workspaces to be written independently.

The scalable nature of the Plasma widgets allows for them to be resized and rotated to any size, with only a brief pause to redraw themselves. The Kross scripting framework allows developers to write widgets in a variety of programming languages in addition to C++.{{Cite web |title=KDE's Plasma is heating up |url=http://www.linux.com/feature/114560 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302104930/http://www.linux.com/feature/114560 |archive-date=2 March 2009 |access-date=23 September 2013 |publisher=Linux.com}}

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KRunner is a versatile tool for several functions.{{Cite web |title=KRunner |url=http://userbase.kde.org/KRunner/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113172239/http://userbase.kde.org/KRunner |archive-date=13 November 2010 |access-date=21 November 2010}} It replaces the dialog box "Run Command" from K Desktop Environment 3, and also inherits from the application launcher feature, expanding the possibilities through a modular plug. KRunner stores previously entered commands and searches, accessible via an auto-complete feature. KRunner can be shown on the desktop via the keyboard combination {{key press|Alt|F2}} or by selecting "Run Command ..." in the desktop menu.

These functions are handled by the plugin:

• Application launcher: Type at least three letters of the desired name or description. KRunner shows applications associated with the terms of the search and allows the selection of the desired one.
• Calculator: Simply enter the desired operation to show the result. It also supports sophisticated expressions.
• Contacts can search for entries in KDE's address book, allowing users to directly open, for example, KMail to write an e-mail. The address of the recipient of your choice is automatically added to the message.
• Unit Converter converts values between different units of measure.
• Web history: Search history of recently visited sites in Konqueror.
• Recent documents: Search for recently opened files.

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This is a list of widgets that the current release version of Plasma supports. Not all widgets are supported by default in all Linux distributions; some may require different packages or even a recompilation of Plasma.

• First-generation native widgets (in C++, JavaScript, Ruby, or Python. In many distributions, the Ruby and Python bindings must be downloaded separately as packages.)
• Second-generation native widgets written in QML{{Cite press release |title=4.6 Beta1 Brings Improved Search, Activities and Mobile Device Support |publisher=KDE |url=http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.6-beta1.php |access-date=29 September 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130910035051/http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.6-beta1.php |archive-date=10 September 2013}}
• Apple Dashboard widgets{{cite web |url=http://introducingkde4.blogspot.com/2008/11/plasma.html |title=Introducing KDE 4: Plasma |publisher=Introducingkde4.blogspot.com |access-date=29 September 2013 |archive-date=3 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003154515/http://introducingkde4.blogspot.com/2008/11/plasma.html |url-status=live }}
• SuperKaramba widgets – used in KDE 3{{cite web |url=http://www.freiesmagazin.de/freiesMagazin-2008-09 |title=freiesMagazin 2008–09 |publisher=freiesMagazin |access-date=29 September 2013 |archive-date=16 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130916222512/http://www.freiesmagazin.de/freiesMagazin-2008-09 |url-status=live }}
• Web widgets (supports HTML and JavaScript)

Previous Plasma Workspaces releases also supported Edje gadgets and E17 modules. Support for those was developed in 2008{{cite web |url=http://blog.morpheuz.cc/21/08/2008/plasmoid-with-qedje/ |title=Plasmoid with QEdje |access-date=29 September 2013 |archive-date=2 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002120539/http://blog.morpheuz.cc/21/08/2008/plasmoid-with-qedje/ |url-status=dead }} but removed later, in 2010.{{cite web|author=Artur Duque de Souza |url=https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-workspace/repository/revisions/f9d8bf81027167c6c18dd0f81248f34317201921 |title=KDE Workspace – Revision f9d8bf81 |publisher=KDE |date=9 July 2010 |access-date=29 September 2013}}{{cite web |url=http://blog.morpheuz.cc/10/07/2010/kde-calls-home/ |title=KDE calls 'home' |date=10 July 2010 |access-date=29 September 2013 |archive-date=13 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100713203255/http://blog.morpheuz.cc/10/07/2010/kde-calls-home/ |url-status=dead }}

Google Gadgets were also supported. After Google announced the discontinuation of its two services that utilize Gadgets – Google Desktop{{cite web |last=Chitu |first=Alex |url=http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-desktop-will-be-discontinued.html |title=Google Desktop Will Be Discontinued |publisher=Google |date=2 September 2011 |access-date=29 September 2013 |archive-date=3 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003154723/http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-desktop-will-be-discontinued.html |url-status=live }} and iGoogle{{cite magazine |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/258753/google_to_discontinue_mini_search_appliance_igoogle_other_products.html |title=Google to Discontinue Mini Search Appliance, IGoogle, Other Products |magazine=PCWorld |access-date=29 September 2013 |archive-date=2 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002142642/http://www.pcworld.com/article/258753/google_to_discontinue_mini_search_appliance_igoogle_other_products.html |url-status=live }} – KDE removed support for this widget engine in March 2013.{{cite web|author=Michael Palimaka |url=https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-workspace/repository/revisions/f18065df9b91c72a813291f43707513e99bb72e8 |title=KDE Workspace – Revision f18065df |publisher=KDE |date=1 April 2013 |access-date=29 September 2013}}

{{Further|KDE Software Compilation#Release cycle}}

{{Main|KDE Plasma 5}}

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Plasma 5 is the fifth generation of the graphical workspaces environment created by KDE primarily for Linux systems. Plasma 5 is the successor of Plasma 4 and was first released on 15 July 2014.{{cite web |url=http://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0/ |title=KDE Plasma 5.0 Released |publisher=KDE |date=15 July 2014 |access-date=19 August 2014 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924161821/https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/07/kde-plasma-5-released|title=KDE Plasma 5 Arrives with Fresh New Look, True Convergence|author=Sneddon|first=Joey-Elijah|date=15 July 2014|work=OMG! Ubuntu!|access-date=14 June 2019|archive-date=8 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408141154/https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/07/kde-plasma-5-released|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/kde-plasma-5-for-those-linux-users-undecided-on-the-kernels-future/|title=KDE Plasma 5—For those Linux users undecided on the kernel's future|last=Gilbertson|first=Scott|date=18 August 2014|work=Ars Technica|access-date=14 June 2019|archive-date=12 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412024658/https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/kde-plasma-5-for-those-linux-users-undecided-on-the-kernels-future/|url-status=live}} It includes a new default theme, known as "Breeze", as well as increased convergence across different devices. The graphical interface was fully migrated to QML, which uses OpenGL for hardware acceleration, resulting in better performance and reduced power consumption.

Plasma Mobile is a Plasma 5 variant for Linux-based smartphones.

KDE Plasma 5 is built using Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5,{{cite web|url=https://dot.kde.org/2013/12/17/qt-52-foundation-kde-frameworks-5|title=Qt 5.2 – Foundation for KDE Frameworks 5|publisher=Dot.kde.org|author=Jos Poortvliet|date=17 December 2013|access-date=10 March 2014|archive-date=11 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111211242/https://dot.kde.org/2013/12/17/qt-52-foundation-kde-frameworks-5|url-status=live}} predominantly plasma-framework.{{cite web |url=https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=plasma-framework.git&a=blob&h=218bdc6d9d881b654b3167eb905472e25b1ab0fc&hb=44acd8c80204bca65be7794c2614d61bc28a6503&f=README.md |title=plasma-framework readme |access-date=8 October 2016 |archive-date=16 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216124613/https://cgit.kde.org/ |url-status=dead }}

It improves support for HiDPI displays and ships a convergable graphical shell, which can adjust itself according to the device in use. 5.0 also includes a new default theme, dubbed Breeze. Qt 5's QtQuick 2 uses a hardware-accelerated OpenGL(ES) scene graph (canvas) to compose and render graphics on the screen, which allows for the offloading of computationally expensive graphics rendering tasks onto the GPU, freeing up resources on the system's main CPU.

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KDE Plasma 5 uses the X Window System and Wayland. Support for Wayland was prepared in the compositor and planned for a later release. It was made initially available in the 5.4 release.{{cite web|url=http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2015/06/four-years-later/|title=Four years later|author=Grässlin|first=Martin|date=29 June 2015|website=blog.martin-graesslin.com|access-date=28 April 2019|archive-date=13 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413010025/http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2015/06/four-years-later/|url-status=live}} Stable support for a basic Wayland session was provided in the 5.5 release (December 2015).{{cite web|url=https://dot.kde.org/2015/12/08/plasma-55-beautiful-new-artwork|title=Plasma 5.5 With Beautiful New Artwork|last=Riddell|first=Jonathan|date=8 December 2015|work=KDE.news|access-date=28 April 2019|archive-date=8 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408141251/https://dot.kde.org/2015/12/08/plasma-55-beautiful-new-artwork|url-status=live}}

Support for NVIDIA proprietary driver for Plasma on Wayland was added in the 5.16 release (June 2019).{{cite web|url=https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.15.90.php|title=Plasma 5.16 Release Announcement|date=16 May 2019|publisher=KDE|access-date=26 May 2019|archive-date=21 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190521182654/https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.15.90.php|url-status=live}}

• KRunner, a search feature with many available plugins. In addition to launching apps, it can find files and folders, open websites, convert from one currency or unit to another, calculate simple mathematical expressions, and perform numerous other useful tasks.{{Cite web| title = How to Use KDE Plasma Desktop Like a Pro| work = Linux.com| access-date = 22 December 2017| date = 22 February 2015| url = https://www.linux.com/learn/how-use-kde-plasma-desktop-pro| archive-date = 9 August 2019| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190809141120/https://www.linux.com/learn/how-use-kde-plasma-desktop-pro| url-status = live}}
• Flexible desktop and panel layouts composed of individual widgets (also known as "Plasmoids") can be individually configured, moved around, replaced with alternatives, or deleted. Each screen's layout can be individually configured. New widgets created by others can be downloaded within Plasma.
• Powerful clipboard with a memory of previously copied pieces of text that can be called up at will.
• Systemwide notification system supporting quick reply and drag-and-drop straight from notifications, history view, and a Do Not Disturb mode.
• Central location to control playback of media in open apps, the phone (with KDE Connect installed), or the web browser (with Plasma Browser Integration installed)
• Activities, which allow users to separate methods of using the system into distinct workspaces. Each activity can have its own set of favorite and recently used applications, wallpapers, "virtual desktops", panels, window styles, and layout configurations. It also couples with {{Code|ksmserver}} (X Session Manager implementation) which keeps track of apps that can be run or shutdown along with given activity via subSessions functionality that keep track of state of applications (not all applications support this feature as they do not implement XSMP protocol).{{Cite web|title=Changes to KSMServer – David Edmundson's Web Log|date=28 November 2018 |url=https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/changes-to-ksmserver/|access-date=30 September 2021|language=en-US|archive-date=30 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930213934/https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/changes-to-ksmserver/|url-status=live}}
• Encrypted vaults for storing sensitive data.
• Night Color, which can automatically warm the screen colors at night, or user-specified times, or manually.
• Styling for icons, cursors, application colors, user interface elements, splash screens and more can be changed, with new styles created by others being downloadable from within the System Settings application. Global Themes allow the entire look and feel of the system to be changed in one click.
• Session Management allows apps that were running when the system shut down to be automatically restarted in the same state they were in before.

{{Main|KDE Plasma 6}}

File:A Dell Inspiron, running Manjaro 24.0 "Wynsdey" (KDE Plasma 6).jpg

KDE Plasma 6 is the sixth and current generation of the graphical workspaces environment made by KDE. It is the successor to Plasma 5 and was initially released on 28 February 2024.{{Cite web |date=28 February 2024 |title=KDE MegaRelease 6 |url=https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/ |access-date=29 February 2024 |website=KDE Community |language=en |archive-date=28 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240228233611/https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Schedules/Plasma 6 – KDE Community Wiki |url=https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_6 |access-date=29 February 2024 |website=community.kde.org |archive-date=28 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240228020238/https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_6 |url-status=live }}

Plasma 6 changes the default display server from X11 to Wayland, though the former is still available.{{Cite web |date=4 October 2022 |title=login-sessions: Make Plasma Wayland the default (!2188) · Merge requests · Plasma / Plasma Workspace · GitLab |url=https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/2188 |access-date=29 February 2024 |website=GitLab |language=en |archive-date=29 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229033101/https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/2188 |url-status=live }}

As of version 6.4, the X11 version is no longer installed by default and the KWin (the KDE window manager) codebase is split into kwin and kwin_x11. Kwin is the default Wayland version and will see active development. New fixes are developed for kwin first and backported later to kwin_x11. Version kwin_x11 is maintained until Plasma 7 and no new features are expected to be backported. {{Cite web |last=Zahorodnii |first=Vlad |date=2025-03-11 |title=kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland split |url=https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2025-March/123654.html |access-date=2025-06-25}}

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|Plasma Netbook's Search and Launch view

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|Plasma Active’s Semantic File Browser

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|First technology preview of Plasma Mobile during the "Tokamak 4" developer sprint in February 2010|File:Plasma-mobile demo (2010-03-21).ogv

|Technology preview of Plasma Mobile on video}}

Plasma Desktop is the main variant of KDE Plasma, targeted at desktop PCs and laptops.

{{Main|Plasma Netbook}}

Plasma Netbook aims at netbooks and may also be used on tablet PCs. The first stable release shipped with KDE SC 4.4.{{cite web |url=http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.4/ |title=SC 4.4.0 Caikaku Release Announcement |publisher=KDE |date=9 February 2010 |access-date=30 March 2012 |archive-date=29 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529143202/https://www.kde.org/announcements/4.4/ |url-status=live }} With the release of Plasma 5, Plasma Netbook's functionality was merged into Plasma itself.

{{Main|Plasma Active}}

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Plasma Active was a workspace for devices with touchscreens. It shipped with several applications such as Kontact Touch and a document viewer based on Calligra Suite.{{cite web |url=http://kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-three/ |title=Plasma Active 3 Improves Performance, Brings New Apps |publisher=KDE |date=15 October 2012 |access-date=21 September 2023 |archive-date=28 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231128053319/https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-three/ |url-status=live }} "Contour" was the name of an interface for tablet devices. Its development was started in April 2011 by basysKom.{{cite news

|title=Contour Open Source Project announced – a new and innovative usage paradigm for digital devices

|url=http://contour.basyskom.com/

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110503130637/http://contour.basyskom.com/

|url-status=dead

|archive-date=3 May 2011

|publisher=basysKom

|date=11 April 2011

|access-date=24 April 2011

}} Replacing an earlier tablet prototype,{{cite news

| title = KDE's Mobile Team Meets for First Sprint

| url = http://dot.kde.org/2010/12/03/kdes-mobile-team-meets-first-sprint

| author = Artur Souza

| agency = KDE.NEWS

| publisher = KDE

| date = 3 December 2010

| access-date = 1 January 2011

| archive-date = 9 November 2020

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201109031701/https://dot.kde.org/2010/12/03/kdes-mobile-team-meets-first-sprint

| url-status = live

}} Contour has then become the main workspace UI of Plasma Active and was shipped as 1.0 in October 2011.{{cite news

| title = Plasma Active One released!

| author = Carl Symons

| url = http://dot.kde.org/2011/10/09/plasma-active-one-released

| agency = KDE.NEWS

| publisher = KDE

| date = 9 October 2011

| access-date = 14 January 2012

| archive-date = 5 February 2012

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120205044027/http://dot.kde.org/2011/10/09/plasma-active-one-released

| url-status = live

}}

Plasma Active has been succeeded by Plasma Mobile starting with Plasma 5.{{Cite web |title=Plasma/Active – KDE Community Wiki |url=https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active |access-date=21 April 2023 |website=community.kde.org |archive-date=23 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923013845/https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active |url-status=live }}

{{Main|Plasma Mobile}}

Plasma Mobile was targeted at smartphones and small tablet devices that are mainly used via touch input. It was originally expected to be released in 2011 along with Plasma Active 1.0, but development focus shifted towards Contour. A new version with the same name but based on KDE Frameworks 5 was announced on 25 July 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.itworld.com/article/2952189/linux/kde-community-announces-fully-open-source-plasma-mobile.html|title=KDE Community announces fully open source Plasma Mobile|author=Swapnil Bhartiya|date=25 July 2015|work=ITworld|access-date=23 August 2015|archive-date=25 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725142424/http://www.itworld.com/article/2952189/linux/kde-community-announces-fully-open-source-plasma-mobile.html|url-status=dead}}

{{Main|Plasma Bigscreen}}

Plasma Bigscreen for TVs and set-top boxes incl. voice interaction.{{Cite web|url=https://invent.kde.org/kde/plasma-bigscreen/|title=Plasma / Plasma Bigscreen|access-date=8 August 2021|archive-date=6 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506010142/https://invent.kde.org/kde/plasma-bigscreen|url-status=live}}

Plasma Nano is a minimal shell for embedded and touch-enabled devices,{{Cite web|url=https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-nano|title=Plasma / Plasma Nano · GitLab|website=GitLab|access-date=12 September 2022|archive-date=5 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705004812/https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-nano|url-status=live}} like IoT or automotive.

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• GNOME Shell
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• {{Official website|https://www.kde.org/plasma-desktop/}}
• [http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma Plasma user wiki]
• [http://community.kde.org/Plasma Plasma developer wiki]

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