Devin Lin 
Last month, I spent about a week working on Plasma Bigscreen, hoping to get it back in Plasma releases again!
Read about it on my blog: https://espi.dev/posts/2025/07/plasma-bigscreen/
Derek Lin@espidev waow, that's a big phone
Bhushan Shah 🤖🥸🦹
Justin@espidev wow this looks GREAT! I assume one could control it with a mouse cursor using KDE Connect?
@justin Yes, there already is a Bigscreen remote plugin built into KDE Connect!
GNU/Matt 
@espidev its like if android TV wasnt a hellscape of "watch this now" bs and adverts
wraptile@espidev very cool! Would love to retire steam big picture mode from the living room TV which already runs on Plasma KDE!
sounddrill 
@sounddrill yes! You can add a browser or an electron app as a non-steam game and use controller as a mouse. It works quite well
Seshan "Seshpenguin"@espidev Great work!
Anachron 
@espidev can't wait to use it on my TV. :-)
Chairmander@espidev looks really nice! I once played around with bigscreen when my dad got a new TV because I despise its UI. so bloated and laggy - plasma would be a breath of fresh air there, but back then it was... very not ready. thanks for the work!
Jan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦@espidev nice looking TV home screen, good job! How can I try it? I would like to use it on my TV ideally with Raspberry PI. Thanks!
@jan It's not yet released as part of Plasma so it won't be packaged on distributions just yet. However, you can either build it manually, or install postmarketOS and set it up with their nightly repo: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Nightly
(and install the plasma-bigscreen package)
Koutsie 
@espidev holy shit yes, finally - android tv without the android :D
Thibaut@espidev such a great project! Glad some people are giving it time and love
Erin, OSHA Denialist@espidev ah yes, Konsole, my favourite TV channel.
mrdev023@espidev Nice works 😁
Mika@espidev super amazing work! Best design I’ve seen on KDE just yet 🥹 keep it up!
Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸
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Surya Teja K@espidev I love it so much. Can we run it on a Fire TV stick? If so, its adoption could drive more users (even nerdy users count as users for now) and with users, we get user feedback.
I really hope this project doesn’t become abandonware.
@shanmukhateja Thank you!
I think the question is more if we can get a distribution running on Fire TV sticks, which doesn't seem to be the case just yet: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
However, any sort of computer that can run a modern Linux distribution and can connect to a TV is fair game!
The_Decryptor@espidev It looks fantastic
Seris 
@espidev this is so awesome! I'd love to put this on an HTPC some day :)
memo 📎@espidev awesome! so happy this project has been resurrected
s94@espidev I am waiting a stable release for 2 years ! Thanks.
Francesco Marinucci@espidev
Oh, so it's your fault if my husband's going to get mad at me for adding yet another hacky device in our home!
😁
Oh, so it's your fault if my husband's going to get mad at me for adding yet another hacky device in our home!
😁
Brick Duck@espidev This looks really great, thank you for all the work you put into it!
AdventureTense@espidev Fantastic work!
pak0st@espidev oh, sweet! This would be great for HTPC! Or some mobile view (a tablet maybe?)
Is there an option to see/ kill recent programs on the horizon? 😁
@espidev I love to see such accessibility improvements. Dpad/ arrow key nav is always awesome
@pak0st There is a "task manager" view to show running applications that is accessible from an indicator when apps are running!
The UI still needs some work though, and in theory, most users will probably also use only one app at a time.
Julian Groß@espidev I noticed things happening there. Great work!
I was hoping to use Plasma Bigscreen as a UI for a movie and emulation system for my living room. Good to see it getting enough maintenance again.
I was hoping to use Plasma Bigscreen as a UI for a movie and emulation system for my living room. Good to see it getting enough maintenance again.
licenced priestess@espidev oooh that's a nice TV UI
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AnimeAndVisial@espidev @postmarketOS Ain’t no way, it’s actually not ugly anymore
aakarshmj@espidev Damn, Looks insane !
Melvin Gundlach@espidev It looks so good 😃
Gamey 
@espidev I love the idea of bigscreen for years but it needs a ton of work and Kirigami apps have to be more easily adaptable to big screens and remotes. I am extremely glad it's no longer half dead and very thankful for your work tho! :)
@espidev You obviously don't have to try it but just out of curiosity and in case you find time to test or already did. How well does SmartTube Next work through Waydroid and can the StremIO desktop interface be controlled over a remote or can we run the TV one through Waydroid too? These are my two main TV apps next to Kodi which certainly works and if they are covered I could theoretically get a minicomputer instead of a new TV stick and use PostmarketOS on it.
Ibly 🏳️⚧️ 
@espidev oh this looks sick! honestly i bet this'd be real nice to have on the steam deck, for more general-use applications than just gaming :p
i already use my steam deck a bit for multimedia purposes, so this'd be a nice way to navigate things
i already use my steam deck a bit for multimedia purposes, so this'd be a nice way to navigate things
Nadia.moe@espidev Former plasma bigscreen user here, this is amazing! Thanks for your work on this!
nictakiego@espidev Looks amazing! I hope we will eventually have a vendor which allows installing a custom rom on its tv's
ThePfromtheO@espidev
You barely recognise the old ugly version in this new this one! Great work!
You barely recognise the old ugly version in this new this one! Great work!
Alexey@espidev This is insanely good. I'm really looking forward to giving it a try.
Dexrn ZacAttack@espidev Wonder if we will ever see this running on actual retail TVs... Although I think that largely depends on how flexible KDE is in an embedded environment.
GeoffreyA