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Plasma 5.24.4 arrives with improvements for Wayland, KRunner and KWin, among others
As scheduled, the KDE project has released a new point update to its graphical environment
this afternoon in Spain.
This time it is Plasma 5.24.4, another maintenance release that has come after a third in which
more bugs than expected were corrected.
And it is that KDE, with Nate Graham in the lead, did not expect so many little things
to appear to repair in a version of their desktop that at first seemed to have no cracks.
In Plasma 5.24.4, as in practically all previous updates, fixed a couple more bugs to improve
the experience when using Wayland.
One is for when used in a virtual machine, where sometimes mouse clicks would drift a
bit.
The next News list it is not the official one, but part of what Nate Graham publishes
during the weekends.
Some new features of Plasma 5.24.4 In the Plasma Wayland session:
When the desktop grid effect has been entered with a four-finger swipe up, it can now be
exited with a four-finger swipe down, and the animation is also a bit smoother.
When running the Plasma Wayland session on a VM, clicking something now makes the click
actually go to the right place, instead of being slightly offset.
The “RGB Range” function is no longer sometimes confused and disabled.
Opening a new private window in Firefox using its Task Manager task context menu no longer
sometimes opens the window with the HOME directory path in the URL field.
When using a global menu, closing the active app now clears the menu bar instead of leaving
your menu there like a zombie.
Window title bar buttons now invert as expected when using the system with a right-to-left
language.
KWin's blur effect no longer sometimes causes windows that use blurred backgrounds to flicker.
KRunner-powered searches are now case-insensitive when matching text on System Preferences pages,
so they can be found more easily.
The multiple boot screens app in System Preferences now works.
Plasma 5.24.4 has been officially released, and it won't be long before it hits KDE neon
or the KDE Backports repository.
The rest of the distributions will have to wait more or less depending on their development
model.
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KDE Plasma 5.24.4 LTS released with more Plasma Wayland improvements
And KDE Plasma 5.24.4 LTS was released with more Plasma Wayland improvements, and more.
Check out the news and see how to install on Linux.
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 5.24.4 as the fourth maintenance update for
the latest and greatest series of KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS desktop environments, to fix more
bugs and add various changes for a more stable Plasma desktop experience.
it's trustable.
What's New in KDE Plasma 5.24.4
KDE Plasma 5.24.4 is here three weeks after KDE Plasma 5.24.3 with more improvements to
the Plasma Wayland session, such as better support for running the Plasma Wayland session
in a virtual machine when clicking with the mouse cursor on things, a fix for “RGB Range”
feature is no longer disabled, as well as the ability to exit the Desktop Grid effect
with a four-finger down gesture.
KDE Plasma 5.24.4 also improves support for applying splash screens in System Settings,
improves KRunner's case-insensitive searches by matching text from System Settings pages
to help you find things with easier and improves the blur effect of KWin to no more flickering
for windows with blurred backgrounds.
Also, this release adds support for window title bar buttons to be reversed for right-to-left
(RTL) language users, improves the Global Menu feature to clear the menu bar when closing
the active application, and improves Firefox web browser support when opening a new Private
window in Task Manager's task context menu so that it doesn't open with the path to the
home directory in the address bar.
There are a total of 35 changes included in the KDE Plasma 5.24.4 update, which is highly
recommended for all KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS users.
How to install or update
Plasma 5.24.4 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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