The Global Menu returns to KDE thanks to Plasma 5.9

plasma 5.9

On January 30th, Plasma 5.9 was released, the latest stable version of this popular desktop that so many Linux users use. Plasma 5.9 is the first version of Plasma in 2017 but it will not be the only one to appear in the year. There is already talk of the next version, Plasma 5.10 that will be released next May and of the revisions that until that moment will be made of this desk.

Plasma 5.9 improves the support of certain programs, fixes bugs but also adds features that other versions of KDE had and that they were lost for various reasons. Now they return to the desk and it seems that with the support of the Community.

The Global Menu or Global Menu is one of the most important elements of KDE Plasma 5.9. This function is similar to the Ubuntu Unity menus or the management of the MacOS desktop. The application menu is pulled from the windows and overlaid on the top of the screen.

Plasma 5.9 has increased support from Wayland but focuses on user productivity

This feature is the first in a series of features added to improve user productivity. The functions of drag and drop have also been improved and now the notifications can be picked up and dragged to the desktop to run the application.

Wayland is a key point as we told you a long time ago. The new graphics server has increased its support for KDE with Plasma 5.9As well functions such as screen capture or the color selector are already native functions. Currently, Wayland is a functional graphical server, but when it does not have that function it is replaced by Xorg. In this case, that need is less and less.

Plasma 5.9 is now available via code, code that we can get through this link. If we have a rolling release distribution, we may already have Plasma 5.9, if not, we have to wait for the distribution to update the desktop. In any case, it looks like it will be something all KDE users will have in no time.


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  1.   diego said

    I have mint 17.3 cinamon, can I install kde for it?