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KDE Plasma

Use Plasma to surf the web, keep in touch with colleagues, friends and family manage your files, enjoy music and videos, and get creative and productive at work.
Do it all in a beautiful environment that adapts to your needs,and with the safety, privacy-protection and peace of mind that the best Free Open Source Software has to offer.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Plasma

https://kde.org/de/plasma-desktop

The installation and preinstalled packages you got with the default EndeavourOS KDE Plasma install are a bare minimal setup, ready to set up to your personal needs.

In case you want to add some additional features and functionality, we collect some common extra options here.

Gdrive (google):

to browse your Google Drive in Dolphin, install kio-gdrive

sudo pacman -Syu kio-gdrive

Dolphin (filebrowser) extras:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dolphin#File_previews

File indexer Baloo:

In case you do not need the functionality, or it is using too many resources on older hardware:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Baloo#Disabling_the_indexer

balooctl6 suspend
balooctl6 disable
balooctl6 purge

Overview of all apps KDE Plasma offers:

https://apps.kde.org

Most of they are inside the package group for kde-applications.

Extra functionality for the settings manager are called kcm:

https://develop.kde.org/docs/features/configuration/kcm

Some are in the repository: https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=kcm&maintainer=&flagged=

Some more or less usefull options can be found in the AUR:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=kcm

KDE Plasma