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KDE Plasma Module

Welcome to the KDE Plasma module documentation! Transform your desktop experience with a beautiful, fully-featured, and hardware-accelerated KDE Plasma 6 environment.

Overview

This module delivers a stunning graphical interface powered by KDE Plasma 6 and the modern Wayland display protocol via SDDM. It takes care of everything from ensuring buttery-smooth hardware graphics acceleration to curating an excellent suite of essential desktop applications.

Key Features

  • Plasma 6 & Wayland: Activates the bleeding-edge KDE Plasma 6 desktop manager alongside the SDDM display manager, fully configured for Wayland.
  • Hardware Acceleration: Forces the enablement of both 64-bit and 32-bit hardware graphics acceleration, guaranteeing exceptional performance for UI rendering, gaming, and multimedia.
  • Curated Application Suite: Comes pre-packaged with a fantastic array of KDE tools and system utilities, including:
  • Productivity: KRunner, Kate, Kalk (Calculator)
  • System Tools: Filelight (Disk usage), KSystemLog, Hardinfo2
  • Media & Graphics: Haruna (Video player), KolourPaint, KColorChooser
  • Utilities: KTorrent, Krfb (Desktop sharing), xclip
  • Refined Defaults: Purges legacy software like xterm and sets up a clean us keyboard layout for a polished out-of-the-box experience.

Usage

Enable the module in your host configuration:

hostSpec.services.kde.enable = true;