KDE Plasma 5.23 Gets First Point Release, Plasma Wayland Sees More Improvements.
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The KDE Plasma Desktop is an amazing environment that offers a beautiful appearance of the
desktop that Total takes advantage of modern computing technology.
The team behind the project says that if you're looking for a familiar working environment,
Plasma Desktop gives you all the tools you need for a modern desktop computing experience
so you can be productive right from the start.
In fact, through the use of visual effects and scalable graphics, the desktop experience
is not only smooth but also pleasing to the eye.
Now, the KDE Project today released the first one-off release in its series of KDE Plasma
5.23 desktop environments, KDE Plasma 5.23.1, fixing several issues and improving existing
functionality.
KDE Plasma 5.23.1 released – Check out what's new
Last week, on October 14th, the KDE Project celebrated its 25th anniversary with the release
of the KDE Plasma 5.23 desktop environment series, a major update that introduced many
new features and improvements. Now the first release point is already here,
addressing various issues with the Plasma Wayland session, like a crash that occurred
immediately after logging in when using the right Alt never chooses advanced 3rd level
keyboard configuration.
In addition, the Plasma Wayland session now offers better support for GNOME apps, which
now fully refresh their content when the window is maximized, and improves support for more
apps to open with a normal window size the first time they are started.
In addition to these Wayland Plasma improvements, the timely release of KDE Plasma 5.23.1 improves
support for Flatpak and Snap applications in the Discover package manager, which no
longer crashes on Linux distributions that don't offer specific distro packages like
Gentoo, improves the KWin window manager so that it no longer crashes when exiting the
Firefox browser and offers better support for multi-screen configurations.
Also enhanced in this release is logging in using the “Others…” page of the login
screen, right-clicking a file from the desktop when multiple files are selected, switching
between views in the apps panel, as well as support for OpenConnect VPNs using a password-protected
FSID key with a user certificate and no private key.
KDE Plasma 5.23.1 also fixes the “clear emoji history” action, as well as suspend
and hibernate actions, and includes several other bug fixes.
How to install or update
Plasma 5.23.1 is already official, but as usual this 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 probably arrive
in the next few hours.
Later, they will add other distributions, among which Rolling Releases will come sooner,
although that doesn't mean they will soon; it may take a few days or even a few weeks.
Then the KDE Plasma 5.23.1 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.
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:: About Kde Plasma 5.23 ::
The KDE Project announced today the release and general availability of the KDE Plasma
5.23 desktop environment, a major update that brings new features and improvements, and
also commemorates 25 years of KDE.
On October 14th, 2021, the KDE Project turns 25 years, and what better way to celebrate
than with a new Plasma desktop release. KDE Plasma 5.23 is out now and brings over 120
changes to make the beloved desktop environment more stable, reliable, and enjoyable than
ever.
“Plasma 25th Anniversary Edition is a leap forward in the quest for a more performant
and usable desktop. We have improved the speed and stability of Plasma, while including changes
that make it easier to use both on desktop and touch-enabled devices,” said KDE.
Wayland is becoming more and more mature and popular, used by default by many acclaimed
GNU/Linux distributions like Fedora Linux or Ubuntu, so the KDE Plasma 5.23 release
brings numerous improvements to its Plasma Wayland session.
These include the ability to drag and drop and middle-click paste stuff between native
Wayland and XWayland apps, the ability to adjust the Broadcast RGB settings of the Intel
graphics driver, more intuitive touchpad gestures, as well as support for remembering virtual
desktops on a per-activity basis.
There’s also a new screen rotation animation, faster user switching, animated feedback icons
when launching apps, a new notification in the system tray area to tell you when something
is recording your screen and to allow you to cancel it, as well as the ability to change
the screen resolution when running Plasma in a virtual machine.
Furthermore, the text copied from within the Plasma desktop will now appears in the global
clipboard, re-opening an app with a maximized window state will now open it on the screen
with the mouse cursor on it, and Plasma now retains multi-screen layouts across X11 and
Wayland sessions. Of course, many other pesky bugs and crashes were squashed to make Plasma
Wayland more usable as a daily driver.
In addition to the Plasma Wayland improvements, KDE Plasma 5.23 makes the Plasma Discover
graphical package manager faster to load and more transparent by showing you a source’s
name in the app install button, and adds a pin button to the Kickoff application menu
so you can pin the menu on the screen, along with the ability to configure the Power/Session
action button.
Plasma is known as one of the best looking Linux desktop environments out there, so the
25th Anniversary Edition introduces new options to make Plasma even more pleasant to use.
These include an updated Breeze theme with redesigned buttons, checkboxes, menu items,
radio buttons, scrollbars, sliders, and spinboxes, as well as support for overriding a color
scheme’s accent color in System Setting’ Colors page.
But wait, there’s more! Plasma 5.23 also improves System Settings to make it easier
for users to find various options with a much-improved search functionality, change the screen refresh
rates, set the status of their Bluetooth adapter on login, revert unwanted display settings,
prevent geolocation using third-party services in the Night Color page, as well as to sync
your screen arrangements in the Login Screen page.
Widgets and Applets enrich your Plasma desktop experience, so this release adds more details
about the currently connected network and lets you disable IPv6 in Plasma NetworkManager,
shows load averages on System Monitor and sensor widgets, makes it possible for the
Audio Volume applet to distinguish between apps that play or record audio, and lets you
delete selected items in the Clipboard applet’s popup.
Other noteworthy changes include three power profiles, including “power-saver,” “balanced”
and “performance,” improves to the tablet mode to make Plasma easier to use on touch
screens, a more “menu-like” appearance for the Global Menu applet, better support
for Flatpak and Snap apps, improved support for multi-monitor setups, and better support
for Bluetooth drawing tablets.
The KDE Plasma 5.23 desktop environment is out today and it will be available shortly
in the software repositories of various popular rolling-release distributions like KDE neon,
openSUSE Tumbleweed, and Arch Linux. In combination with the recent KDE Frameworks 5.87 and KDE
Gear 21.08.2 software suite releases, Plasma is probably one of the best, modern, and complex
desktop environments you can use on your Linux distro.
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