Another KDE project, Plasma Bigscreen, is back from the dead with a much better UI spread across the entire shell.
  • aeiou_ckr@lemmy.world
    43·
    3 months ago

    Never heard of this. So glad there is an alternative to android TV and Roku. Going to give it a shot.

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
    41·
    3 months ago

    Not currently available to download according to the official page:

    “As of right now, Plasma Bigscreen isn’t available for public use yet. This is due to not being developed for so long. The project has been revived, but it might take a while until it becomes stable and is available for public use.”

    That said, if this could run on top of the standard linux OS on my MiniPC (like Steam Big Picture), then I’d give it a go!

  • network_switch@lemmy.ml
    16·
    3 months ago

    Excellent. The umbrella of KDE is home to a bunch of my favorite applications. Kdenlive, Krita, Digikam. I’ve been hotly anticipating the day I get a phone running Plasma Mobile

    This may be better eventually than Plasma Mobile for what I imagined as an ideal gaming frontend that isn’t just Steam Big Picture

    Maybe someday Waydroid and Android Translation Layer will make Linux as a HTPC+gaming great

  • Flatfire@lemmy.ca
    15·
    3 months ago

    That’s exciting. It looks very clean, but until it has the tv remote support aspect I think it’ll wait

  • redfellow@sopuli.xyz
    41·
    3 months ago

    That does not look better than project ivy launcher imho.

    From the 100 reasons to choose this over android tv, subjective thing like “better UI” is not one.

    Does it support SmartTube? Jellyfin? Refresh rate and resolution changing based on signal? Bitstream? Codecs? Exo player is a great default player used by many apps, what’s this ones alternative?

  • Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 months ago

    So judging by the comments this is something you would install as a DE on a Linux distro, perhaps on a miniPC, not something running on the SmartTV itself?

  • Tenkard@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 months ago

    Nice! I wanted to use this, but my env already had plasma 6, I’d like to replace the TV os

  • gr3q@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 months ago

    I had lots of problems with the previous version when turning the TV off/on while it’s running, like losing keyboard access (no focus) until you use the mouse at least once and it updating the display settings every time. Hope it’s getting better now.

    TBH the keyboard focus issue is happening on most Login Managers and DEs, so it’s not really their fault. I will try it out some time, until then I keep using my SteamOS install.