The desktop tour
Plasma 6 on Wayland, kept small on purpose. Here is what ships, and what deliberately does not.
The shell
Immos runs KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland. If you have used Plasma, KDE Neon or Fedora KDE, none of this will surprise you: a panel with an application launcher, a task manager, a system tray, and System Settings for everything else.
Wayland is the only session. There is no X11 fallback — legacy X11 applications run through Xwayland inside the Wayland session, which is transparent in practice.
What ships natively
The native set is deliberately short. It covers the things that must talk directly to the hardware or the session:
| Area | What handles it |
|---|---|
| Network | NetworkManager, with the Plasma network applet |
| Sound | PipeWire and WirePlumber, with the Plasma volume applet |
| Power and battery | PowerDevil and power-profiles-daemon |
| Displays | KScreen — arrangement, scaling, refresh rate |
| Bluetooth | BlueDevil |
| Printing | CUPS and the Plasma print manager |
| Files | Dolphin |
| Terminal | Konsole |
| Screenshots | Spectacle |
| Disks | KDE Partition Manager |
| Software | Discover, with the Flatpak backend |
Spectacle and KDE Partition Manager are the two applications that are native for a reason rather than by habit: screenshots need access to the session’s own compositor, and a partition editor needs to run outside a Flatpak sandbox to be worth anything. Neither is published on Flathub at all.
Fonts cover the full Unicode range out of the box, including CJK and emoji.
The out-of-the-box applications
Updated in 0.3.0 · testing channelBeyond the native tools, a small starter set ships preinstalled — as Flatpaks, on the writable data partition, not in the system image:
- Firefox for the web,
- Ark for archives, so right-click extraction works in Dolphin from the first boot,
- KWrite for text files,
- Okular for documents,
- Gwenview for images.
Everything else — office suites, mail clients, media players, development environments — comes from Flathub in a click. That is the design, not an omission: no browser engine and no application framework is compiled into the read-only system, which is a large part of why it stays small and why an update is one image rather than a thousand packages. On 0.2.0 the starter set is Firefox alone; the rest is one click away in Discover.
Theming
System Settings → Appearance carries the parts you would expect: a light and a dark theme, ten accent colours, wallpapers, and font settings. GTK applications — including Flatpak apps like Firefox — are themed to match, so the desktop does not look like two systems stapled together.
Where your files are
Your home folder is where you expect it and behaves normally. It lives on the writable data partition, entirely separate from the system image, which is why an update or a rollback never touches it. See your files and storage.