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Plasma 5.24.1 released with fixes for various bugs
And KDE Plasma 5.24.1 was officially released with fixes for several bugs.
Check out the news and see how to install on Linux.
KDE Plasma Desktop is an amazing environment that offers a beautiful looking desktop that
takes full advantage of modern computing technology.
The team behind the project says that if you're looking for a familiar working environment,
Plasma Desktop offers all the tools you need for a modern desktop computing experience
so you can be productive right from the start.
Incidentally, through the use of scalable visual effects and graphics, the desktop experience
is not only smooth, but also pleasing to the eye.
Now, the KDE Project has announced the release of KDE Plasma 5.24.1, a maintenance update
that fixed several bugs.
What's New in KDE Plasma 5.24.1
From the following list, which is taken from what Nate Graham posts over the weekends,
perhaps it stands out that they fixed three more bugs related to Wayland.
We all say it must be the future, in fact it's already the present in GNOME, but it
looks like KDE won't add it by default in any Plasma 5 series.
Speculation aside, what they've already announced is Plasma 5.24. 1, and here you have a list
of the most outstanding news.
In the overview effect, the app selection highlighting effects now disappear when you
start dragging them.
Now check out below some new features and fixes in Plasma 5.24.1:
System Preferences no longer crashes when the active color scheme does not exist on
disk for some reason; it now reverts to Breeze Light (the default color scheme) and does
not crash.
In the Plasma Wayland session: Plasma no longer always crashes when screencasting
under certain circumstances.
Using custom home screens works again.
Fixed a way the tooltip could be misplaced.
The scaling effect is again configurable.
Links to System Preferences pages that are added to the desktop via the “Add to Desktop”
context menu item in Kickoff reappear on the desktop as expected.
Some types of large text buttons no longer make the middle text invisible when placed
in keyboard focus.
The "Devices" page of the Information Center will work as expected again if the lspci command-line
program is located in /sbin/, /usr/sbin, or /usr/local/sbin on your computer.
Dragging files from the desktop into a Sticky Note applet no longer causes files to temporarily
disappear.
In X11 Plasma session, cursor no longer disappears when using “Zoom” effect.
The “Fall Apart” effect works again and no longer interacts strangely with the “Overview”
effect.
The Overview effect no longer displays minimized windows in desktop thumbnails for a moment
before immediately hiding them again.
When using certain 3rd party window decoration themes, maximizing a window is no longer unexpectedly
shuffled instead of doing so.
System Preferences are now faster, especially when using icon view.
When an application is installed more than once from different sources (e.g. one version
from the distribution repositories and another version from Flatpak), the context menu of
that application in Kickoff no longer has multiple entries saying “Uninstall or manage
accessories”.
Searching for apps that are not yet installed no longer returns duplicate entries for matching
apps that are available from multiple sources.
In the overview effect, the app selection highlighting effects now disappear when you
start dragging them.
How to install or update
Plasma 5.24.1 is already official, but as usual, that doesn't mean we can easily install
it on our Linux distribution.
The first system to have it available will be KDE neon, where it will likely arrive in
the next few hours.
Later, they will add other distributions, among which the Rolling Releases will appear
earlier, although that doesn't mean they will soon; it may take a few days or even a few
weeks.
So, the KDE Plasma desktop environment will soon arrive in the stable software repositories
of your favorite Linux distribution, especially releases like KDE neon, Arch Linux, openSUSE
Tumbleweed, and Solus.
And if you use Ubuntu…
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