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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 second one-off release in its series of KDE Plasma
5.23 desktop environments, KDE Plasma 5.23.2.
KDE Plasma 5.23.2 released – Check out what's new
There are over 30 changes included in this update. KDE Plasma 5.23.2 arrives just a week
after KDE Plasma 5.23.1 and introduces a great feature for NVIDIA GPU users, namely, support
for the GBM backend of NVIDIA's proprietary graphics driver.
Over time, this should improve the Plasma experience for NVIDIA users in a number of
ways.
If you are using the Plasma Wayland session, you should know that KDE Plasma 5.23.2 improves
the Touchpad page in System Settings to correctly display options on how you can right click
and fix a bug that causes maximized windows stop responding to mouse and keyboard input
when using the hidden “BorderlessMaximizedWindows” setting.
Speaking of keyboard input, this release sees the return of the F10 keyboard shortcut to
create a folder on the desktop, as well as the Shift + Delete keyboard shortcut to permanently
delete items on the desktop.
Also, KDE Plasma 5.23.2 improves search fields throughout the Plasma desktop to work correctly
when using the virtual keyboard.
Plasma Discover's graphics package manager also received attention in this one-off release,
now allowing users of certain distros, such as Fedora Linux, to immediately remove an
application after it has been installed without having to exit and restart Discover.
Also, the Plasma Discover install buttons now look good on systems running KDE Plasma
5.23 with KDE Frameworks 5.86 and adds the ability to detect when a locally downloaded
package is already installed when you try to install it, so you can remove it.
Among other noteworthy changes, KDE Plasma 5.23.2 improves the new Kickoff application
menu “Keep Open” feature to keep the popup open even when you want to launch applications
or open menu items, as well as not to display more apps from the last category highlighted
in the main view when hovering over the “Help Center” item in the sidebar.
Last but not least, this second version of KDE Plasma 5.23 brings back the ability to
display the desktop context menu actions “Add to Trash” and “Delete”, improving support
for the configuration dialog of the Plasma applet on 1024 × 768 resolution screens when
using the bottom panel and improves support for multi-monitor configurations.
How to install or update
Plasma 5.23.2 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.
So the KDE Plasma 5.23.2 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.
:: More ::
The KDE Project announced today the general availability of KDE Plasma 5.23.2 as the second
point release to the latest and greatest KDE Plasma 5.23 desktop environment series.
KDE Plasma 5.23.2 comes only a week after KDE Plasma 5.23.1 and introduces a big feature
for NVIDIA GPU users, namely support for the GBM backend of the proprietary NVIDIA graphics
driver. Over time, this should improve the Plasma experience for NVIDIA users in many
ways.
If you’re using the Plasma Wayland session, you should know that KDE Plasma 5.23.2 improves
the Touchpad page in System Settings to correctly display options for how you can right-click
and addresses a bug causing maximized windows to become unresponsive to mouse and keyboard
input when using the hidden “BorderlessMaximizedWindows” setting.
Talking about keyboard input, this release sees the return of the F10 keyboard shortcut
for creating a folder on the desktop, as well as the Shift+Delete keyboard shortcut for
permanently deleting items on the desktop. In addition, KDE Plasma 5.23.2 improves the
search fields throughout the Plasma desktop to work properly when using the virtual keyboard.
The Plasma Discover graphical package manager received some love too in this point release,
now allowing users of certain distros, such as Fedora Linux, to immediately remove an
app after it was installed without having to quit and restart Discover.
Furthermore, Plasma Discover’s Install buttons now look good on systems running KDE Plasma
5.23 with KDE Frameworks 5.86, and it adds the ability to detect when if a locally-downloaded
package is already installed when you try to install it, so you can remove it.
Among other noteworthy changes, KDE Plasma 5.23.2 improves the new “Keep open” feature
of the Kickoff application menu to keep the pop-up open even when you want to launch apps
or open menu items, as well as to no longer display apps from the last-highlighted category
in the main view when hovering the mouse cursor over the “Help Center” item in the sidebar.
Last but not least, this second KDE Plasma 5.23 point release brings back the ability
to display both “Add to Trash” and “Delete” desktop context menu actions, improves support
for the Plasma applet configuration window on screens with a 1024×768 resolution when
using the bottom panel, and improves support for multi-monitor setups.
There are over 30 changes included in this update, and you can study them in the full
changelog.
As usual, rolling-release distributions and distros that already received the KDE Plasma
5.23 desktop environment will get the Plasma 5.23.2 point release today or by the end of
the week, so make sure that you update your installations as soon as possible for the
best KDE Plasma desktop experience.
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