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KDE Plasma 5.25 Beta Released With New Customization Options
And KDE Plasma 5.25 Beta was released with new customization options, and more.
Check out the news of this preview of the environment.
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 released the public beta version of the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.25
desktop environment series, which promises several new features, improvements, and more
customization options.
What's New in KDE Plasma 5.25 Beta
KDE Plasma 5.25 is packed with many new features, including full Tablet Mode control of Wayland
and X11 sessions, a smooth cross-fade effect when switching between old and new color schemes,
a new “Crashed Processes Viewer” application, and new Touchpad gestures following your fingers
for touch-friendly devices.
Also new is a configuration window for KRunner, support for configuring all buttons on Wacom
ExpressKey Remote devices, the ability to access and manipulate Plasma layouts assigned
to other screens from a central location in the Edit Mode global toolbar, as well as a
new floating panel mode that highlights it from the bottom of the screen to look more
like a dock.
Nate Graham, KDE developer, explains that:
“In this mode, it still behaves functionally identical to a traditional dashboard, and
clicks on the empty area will be forwarded to the dashboard.
Also, the panel 'does not float' when windows are maximized.”
Another interesting new feature of the KDE Plasma 5.25 desktop environment is the fact
that you can now select the parts of the desktop layout you want to change when applying the
global theme to system settings.
In addition, KDE Plasma now allows you to edit color schemes to make the highlight color
subtly dye all your colors, as well as set highlight colors to be generated automatically
based on the colors of the current desktop wallpaper.
KDE Plasma 5.25 also promises better support for GTK applications that use the Breeze GTK
theme to match the style of Qt/KDE applications, an enhanced System Monitor application that
now offers an option to make a page start loading data as soon as the app opens, and
adds a "shake" effect to the login screen when the wrong credentials are entered, that
you can see in action below.
For the Plasma Wayland session, KDE Plasma 5.25 improves multi-finger edit screen gestures,
and the "slide" gesture to switch virtual desktops to follow your fingers, improves
the user experience for players by disabling screen edge actions, lets you change screen
resolution beyond officially supported, and adds support for the "screencast session restore"
protocol for better application integration using XDG portals such as Flatpaks and Snaps.
Plasma Discover's graphical package manager has also received several improvements, such
as the ability to show the level of application access to resources on your system, the ability
to easily delete settings and user data from Flatpak applications, the ability to alert
users to the risks of installing proprietary software, the ability to show the size of
installed applications and other content on the "Installed" page, as well as support for
the "Dynamic Launcher" portal for better integration of the Flatpak and Snap application system.
Among other noteworthy changes, KDE Plasma 5.25 adds support for activating KWin effects
using taps on the edge of the touch screen, lets you add locations more and to locations
the "Favorites" list/grid in Kickoff, Kicker and Application Dashboard, adds the option
to exclude minimized windows for the Overview effect, adds a live effect of the Night Color,
feature updates the "About This System" page of the Information Center to display more
relevant hardware information.
It also adds the ability to edit the Halt and Reboot commands on the login screen (SDDM)
page of system settings, updates the Network applets, Battery and Brightness, Media Controller
and Window List, Audio Volume and Media Player widgets, the Overview effect, and various
system settings pages with new features and improvements, and fixes numerous bugs for
a better Plasma desktop experience.
The final version of KDE Plasma 5.25 will arrive on June 14, 2022.
How to install or upgrade Early users interested in testing the beta
version of the KDE Plasma 5.25 desktop environment can download various live GNU/Linux distributions
that send the development version of KDE Plasma, such as KDE neone Unstabl Edition, Garuda
Linux KDE-Git Edition, or openSUSE Krypton.
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KDE Plasma 5.25 Beta is ready for testing
The KDE Project has announced the release of the KDE Plasma 5.25 Beta, delivering many
new features and options.
Right after the release of the KDE Frameworks 5.94.0, the KDE Project has kept its promise
and released the beta version for the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.25 desktop environment.
The newest version of the desktop environment is going to deliver many new features, some
of them focusing on themes and accent colors.
New color scheme options KDE Plasma 5.25 Beta delivers a new option
to select components of the desktop environment to change with the theme.
For example, you can exclude icons and cursors while applying a new global theme.
In addition, all the color schemes can automatically adjust themselves depending on the current
wallpaper being used.
There is also a tinting option to apply to color schemes for a more harmonious look.
All of the color scheme change processes are done with a smooth cross-fade effect.
The Touch Mode for KDE Plasma is also improved with the 5.25 Beta release.
Users can fully control the Touch Mode for both X11 and Wayland sessions.
In addition, the Task Manager icon spacing increases when the mode is activated for easier
navigation.
Screen-shake warning in wrong password inputs Plasma Workspace has a screen-shake effect
now when the user enters a wrong password.
The Plasma themes now support floating panels, which users can activate depending on their
preference.
KDE Plasma 5.25 Beta comes with better support for GTK apps that uses the Breeze GTK theme
for matching the styling of Qt and KDE applications.
The KDE Plasma 5.25 desktop environment will be released on the 14th of June.
If you want to test the beta version of it, you can simply download KDE Neon Unstable
distribution
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