November 2026 App Releases

New release for plank-player, aura-browser and bigscreen-ui

Wednesday, 11 November 2026  |  Plasma Bigscreen Team

Wow, new releases! We are releasing applications and a new UI framework this month.

Bigscreen UI is a library of shared Qt Quick components to build applications for TV, built on Kirigami.

Plank Player and Aura Browser were originally released as part of the Plasma 5 release schedule. We have updated them to use Bigscreen UI, and released them independently for now. The eventual goal is to move them to the KDE Gear release schedule.

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plank-player-26.11.02cea69c6790546c1e4d19cf6a8320be28c780f5856993e78683fe1640eb49d66
aura-browser-26.11.00f5007e4e665874020c3042a2c7a914898516e91a385be20144f437ea7ef77be
bigscreen-ui-0.1.0c19186dd22c3c4e9fa7dcc76e87ef995d1a78f5d0d79f4788f85e221ce6a1ca3

Bigscreen UI

bigscreen-ui is a new library of UI components to build applications for Plasma Bigscreen, with a focus on making it easy to implement arrow navigation for remote control. The components were extracted out of the ones used in the Plasma Bigscreen shell, now decoupled for application development purposes.

Learn more about it on GitLab, and see the example application. We plan on introducing official documentation as the API stabilizes.

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Aura Browser

Aura Browser is a web browser for Plasma Bigscreen, with a focus on making it easy to navigate pages with a remote.

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Plank Player

Plank Player is a media player for Plasma Bigscreen. Users can either browse media via the homescreen, or invoke the application directly on the media. It is built on Qt Multimedia, which brings support for other features such as subtitles and audio tracks.

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