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KDE Plasma 5.25 released with exciting new features
And KDE Plasma 5.25 has been released with exciting new features, and more.
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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 KDE Plasma 5.25.
What's New in KDE Plasma 5.25
Four months into production, the KDE Plasma 5.25 desktop environment series is here to
introduce exciting new features such as full Tablet Mode control of Wayland and X11 sessions,
new finger-following touchpad gestures (1:1) for devices touch-friendly features, a configuration
window for KRunner, as well as a new floating mode for the panel that highlights it from
the bottom of the screen to look more like a dock.
There is also 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, a new “Crashed Processes Viewer” application,
as well as the ability to select the parts of the desktop layout you want to change when
applying a global theme in the system settings.
KDE Plasma 5.25 also comes with a complete rewrite of Present Windows and Desktop Grid,
automatic highlight color synchronization with desktop wallpaper (supports slideshow
wallpapers too), the ability to dye all the colors of any color scheme using the accent
color and a new smooth cross-fade effect when switching between old and new color schemes.
Additionally, KDE Plasma now features a user-facing touch mode that turns on whenever the screen
is unplugged or rotated 360 degrees, lets you edit color schemes to make the accent
color subtly tinted to all your colors, and set accent colors to be automatically generated
based on the current desktop wallpaper colors and enhances the System Monitor app with a
new option to make a page start loading data as soon as the app is opened.
For Plasma Wayland session, KDE Plasma 5.25 improves multi-finger touchscreen gestures
and “swipe” gesture to switch virtual desktops to follow your fingers, improves
user experience for gamers by turning off the screen edge actions, adds the ability
to change the screen resolution to resolutions beyond those officially supported, and adds
support for the “screencast session restore” protocol for better application integration
using XDG portals such as Flatpaks and Snaps.
Among other noteworthy changes, KDE Plasma 5.25 adds support for activating KWin effects
using taps on the edge of the touchscreen, lets you add more locations and locations
to the “Favorites” list/grid in Kickoff, Kicker and Application Dashboard, adds an
option to exclude minimized windows from the Overview effect, adds a live effect to the
Night Color feature, and updates the “About This System” page of the Information Center
to display more relevant information about your hardware.
Also improved in KDE Plasma 5.25 is the graphical package manager Plasma Discover, which received
a redesigned application page, the ability to display applications' level of access to
resources on their system, support for deleting application settings and user data.
Flatpak, the ability to alert users about the risks of installing proprietary software,
support for showing the size of installed apps and other content on the “Installed”
page, as well as support for the “Dynamic launcher” portal for better integration
of Flatpak apps and Snap.
And there's more!
KDE Plasma 5.25 comes with better support for GTK apps that use the Breeze GTK theme
to match the style of Qt/KDE apps, adds the ability to edit Halt and Reboot commands in
the login screen (SDDM) page of the system, introduces a “shake” to the login screen
when wrong credentials are entered, and updates many applets, widgets, and various system
settings pages with new features and improvements.
KDE Plasma 5.25 will be supported with five maintenance updates through September 2022.
How to install or update Plasma 5.25 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.
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KDE Plasma 5.25.0 announced
The final version of 5.25.0 of KDE Plasma, whose beta version was announced on 19 May
2022 , has been announced.
This, While it is stated that it brings new features and concepts to the desktop environment,
it is stated that a number of new features and great new concepts in Plasma 5.25 offer
a glimpse into the future of KDE's desktop environment.
While it is stated that the movements on the touchpads and touch screens bring the KDE
Plasma desktop environment to the fingertips, it is stated that customizing the desktop
environment has never been easier.
It is stated that it is possible to search for applications, documents and browser tabs
with KRunner and the application launcher, while the KWin scripts settings page has been
rewritten to make it easier to manage window manager scripts.
Wayland, the new graphics system that will replace the soon obsolete X11 system; It opens
up a world of possibilities for more stable and visually consistent apps, support for
touchscreens and orientation-sensing devices, and more.
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KDE Plasma 5.25 Release is All About Color, Theme, and Other Improvements
KDE Plasma 5.25 has finally landed with lots of visual updates and useful improvements!
KDE Plasma 5.25 has been one of the most anticipated releases, considering its recent focus on
visual refinements and workflow improvements.
For instance, you got an updated Breeze theme and a new overview effect to improve the workflow
with KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS.
Finally, KDE Plasma 5.25 has landed with more upgrades!
KDE Plasma 5.25: What’s New?
While we already looked at some key features of Plasma 5.25 before its final release.
Now that it is here, it is time to give you an overview of what you can expect with KDE
Plasma 5.25.
Spoiler alert: Most of the changes involve visual betterment and usability improvements.
New Wallpaper
If you have played the video game ‘No Man’s Sky‘ or similar, you might get a similar
reference.
Keeping that aside, the default wallpaper is a refresher to the ones being used previously,
with an entirely different theme color.
Gestures for Touchpads and Touchscreens Plasma 5.25 includes gestures to take full
advantage of new features, such as a four-finger pinch or a swipe from the screen edge to trigger
the overview effect or Desktop Grid.
You can easily manage virtual desktops and switch between workspaces using the 1:1 gestures
supported with the release.
You can head to the Workspace Behavior settings to tweak the actions you need.
Ability to Selectively Apply the Global Theme
When you proceed to apply a Global Theme from the system settings, you will be prompted
to confirm if you want the theme to be applied everywhere or to certain parts of it.
You can apply it to specific appearance options or replace the entire configuration.
Overall, this gives fine-grained control in terms of customization when applying the Global
Theme to your KDE-powered system.
Auto-Generated Accent Based on Current Wallpaper Having the ability to choose a custom or a
preset accent is already good enough.
With KDE Plasma 5.25, accent colors can be generated based on your wallpaper.
It should also work with a wallpaper slideshow.
So, if you want something to match your background, and do not want to tinker around, this option
should help you.
A small but mighty addition to the arsenal of new features.
Tint Color Scheme with Accent Color For even greater customization to the look/feel,
KDE Plasma 5.25 will let you add a tint to your selected accent color.
You can enable/disable it if you like the user experience with the tinted theme.
Touch Mode Improvements
When you are using the touch mode in the desktop environment (through supported devices or
manually), KDE Plasma 5.25 makes it more accessible by scaling up the size of the task manager,
system tray, and the title bar of KDE applications.
Improvements to Discover There are some subtle changes to the Discover
software center where you can find all the application categories in the sidebar without
needing to navigate through categories like “Applications”, “Add-ons”, and “Plasma
Add-ons” separately.
Also, with Flatpak applications, you will be shown the permissions required for it.
Furthermore, the application page has received some upgrades to show more information about
the application you view.
Other Improvements
Other essential refinements include upgrades for customization capabilities and workflow
modifications.
Those include:
A new Blend Effect to animate the change between colors to make the transition smooth whenever
you change the theme/color or if it automatically changes.
Powerful containment management feature to allow moving your desktops along with folders/widgets
between monitors even if you have disconnected them.
The Kwin scripts settings page has been rewritten.
Keyboard navigation has been revamped with custom shortcut support and an icon to the
system tray.
A Floating panel to add a margin around the panel.
Improvements to the performance of KRunner.
The network widget adds details for the frequency and BSSID of the Wi-Fi network.
Try KDE Plasma 5.25 You can download KDE Neon to get your hands
on the latest KDE Plasma 5.25 as soon as it’s available with an update.
If you can’t wait, the testing edition should be a good fit (if you’re willing to experiment).
For other Linux distributions, you will have to wait for the developers to push an update
(excluding LTS edition distros).
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