 Hi, my name is Niccolò Venorandi and I'm a KDPlazma developer and the Steam Deck is going to shape with KDPlazma as a desktop So I wanted to do a small video introduction to what KDPlazma is. Now, I don't own a Steam Deck Nor I think that the SteamOS version that we have now will be the same as the one that will have in December However, all of the changes that will be done will be within KDPlazma natural customization range which means that Just like Android skins under the hood are still Android, everything that I'm going to tell you will still apply Also, all the customization will be revertible manually by the user if for any reason what you're going to see in the video Will be preferable over what you actually see in SteamOS Meaning that any change that will be done can still be reverted manually by any user This is Vanilla KDPlazma. The layout is pretty simple. You get a bottom panel with a start menu, task manager, system tree and clock If you prefer another layout, don't worry. This is where plasma customization saves us First of all, you can move the panel between screen size and change its size But you can also change the content of the panel If you hover its elements, you can see that there are stand-alone items called widgets which you can move around just by dragging them If there's something you don't think is necessary like the show desktop button, you can of course take it off If you'd like to go for Windows 11, you can also center elements using the spacers But you can also add any kind of new widget to the panel Just click on add widgets and then you'll get an entire sidebar of them to choose from This is what I meant with this video being useful regardless of what SteamOS will be They might want to change the layout and the default widgets, but the ability to customize them will remain the same for sure Now, let's give a quick look to the default widgets The launcher is pretty simple. You get categories and apps, but you can switch to places to get more powerful actions The ability to open certain folders or to trigger certain actions and history, common-use applications and files The search is also extremely powerful and it does not even rely on any search engine. It's all offline It goes from managing time zones to converting between units to solving equations I've done a video with all of its features if you're interested There's not much to say on the task manager. I'll just say that there's an audio icon that you can use to mute an application right away The system tray is what you would expect. You also get a clipboard widget by default with all the text, pictures and files you've selected with the ability to copy them again on click or to generate a QR code because why not The volume applet is also pretty powerful. You can see if you're playing or recording audio, switch between audio inputs and outputs and you can change the volume for single applications The clock also works as a calendar if you have that enabled in the clock settings If changing the panel layout is not enough for you, the system settings app is truly a powerhouse In the appearance section you can change one, the style of the applications, two, the style of plasma, which is the actual shell or desktop Three, the color scheme, four, the title bar and then fonts, icons, cursors and I could go on and on If you like transparent themes with lots of blur we've got you covered If you prefer simple opaque stuff we also got you covered There's also interesting stuff in the workspace behavior section I won't go through all of it but you can turn on touch screen gestures here as well as screen edges that is when you move the mouse to a screen corner an action gets triggered like opening all applications and virtual desktops of course Now I can't know which applications will come pre-installed so I won't go through them but all KD applications are simple by default yet powerful when needed just like the Plasma desktop That is our mantra Plasma might seem like a normal simple desktop that looks just like Windows as they say out of the box but nothing is further from the truth Plasma is whatever you want it to be Oh and by the way you don't need a Steam Deck to try out KD Plasma That was everything from me if you have any questions you can just ask and bye So let's get into it