{"id":246693,"date":"2026-05-15T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/kde-plasma-is-bringing-back-its-bigscreen-tv-mode\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:45:07","slug":"kde-plasma-is-bringing-back-its-bigscreen-tv-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/kde-plasma-is-bringing-back-its-bigscreen-tv-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"KDE Plasma is bringing back its \u201cBigscreen\u201d TV mode."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/931254\/kde-plasma-is-bringing-back-its-bigscreen-tv-mode\">KDE Plasma is bringing back its \u201cBigscreen\u201d TV mode.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/931254\/kde-plasma-is-bringing-back-its-bigscreen-tv-mode\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/931254\/kde-plasma-is-bringing-back-its-bigscreen-tv-mode<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-15 10:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theverge.com\">www.theverge.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"duet--article--timestamp tvl9dpc yrikct3\"><span>Posted <\/span>May 15, 2026 at 2:46 PM UTC<\/span><\/p>\n<p>KDE Plasma is bringing back its \u201cBigscreen\u201d TV mode.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">As Phoronix reports, the Plasma 6.7 beta includes the module for the desktop environment\u2019s TV-friendly UI, which was dropped from Plasma\u2019s release schedule in 2024. 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