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KDE Plasma 5.23.4 Update Brings Back the Touchpad Applet, Fixes More Bugs
The KDE Project announced today the release and general availability of KDE Plasma 5.23.4
as the fourth maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 5.23 desktop environment series.
KDE Plasma 5.23.4 is here three weeks after the KDE Plasma 5.23.3 update and it restores
the Touchpad applet that was previously available in the Plasma 5.22 series. The applet is now
available as a read-only status notifier that only shows when your laptop’s touchpad has
been disabled.
This point release also improves the Plasma Wayland session to allow users to run XWayland
apps as a different user, improves the Media Frame applet to display images from folders
that contain unusual characters like backticks in their names, and improves the notification
about critical battery level to automatically disappear when you connect your laptop to
its charger.
Other than that, KDE Plasma 5.23.4 improves the “revert this change” dialog in System
Settings’ Display & Monitor page to look better when using a language with long words,
such as German or Brazilian Portuguese, and re-introduces an animated and blurred background
to the logout screen.
Support for Flatpak and Snap apps has been improved as well in this update as teh open/save
dialogs now remember their previous size when they’re re-opened. Moreover, there’s better
support for the Alacritty GPU-accelerated terminal emulator to have the correct window
size when it’s opened.
This release also removes the unnecessary borders from the toolbar buttons of GTK3 apps
that don’t use CSD (client-side decorations) headerbars, such as Inkscape or FileZilla,
improves Breeze-style scrollbars, and fixes common crashes in the System Tray and Plasma
Discover when managing Flatpak apps.
There are a total of 35 changes in KDE Plasma 5.23.4 and you can study the full changelog
for more details. Meanwhile, if you’re using the KDE Plasma 5.23 desktop environment on
your GNU/Linux distribution, keep an eye on the stable repositories for the 5.23.4 packages
and update as soon as possible.
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KDE Plasma 5.23.4 Released for Linux Distributions
This is the fourth patch package for KDE Plasma 5.23 with several fixes, check it out.
The Release Announcement was made on November 30, 2021.
" Today KDE releases a bugfix update for KDE Plasma 5, version 5.23.4. Plasma 5.23 was
released in October 2021 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the
desktop experience. This release adds three weeks of new translations and fixes from KDE
contributors
Fixes were made in the following packages.
breeze breeze-gtk
Discover Plasma Addons
KDE Hotkeys KScreen
ksystemstats Kwin
libksysguard Plasma Desktop
Plasma Phone Components Plasma Systemmonitor
plasma-vault Plasma Workspace
powerdevil xdg-desktop-portal-kde
With the highlights:
Breeze Style: Reduce slot opacity for greater contrast with scrollbar / slider / etc.
Applets / weather: Make the cursor a pointing hand when hovering over the source link
Plasma System Monitor: Do not modal right-click.
Wait for the update to reach your distribution repositories, for KDE Neon Testing users just
update your system now and you will receive KDE Plasma 5.23.4.
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