KDE lovers you are in luck, since the availability of KDE Plasma 5.10 has been announced as planned, a new version that comes with quite remarkable news.
The changes that are most visible to the naked eye are the changes in the interface, since the behavior of the mouse has been improved, the possibility of changing the size of the widgets present on the desktop has been added and the way in which the icons and folders are seen, as well as the access to the themselves.
However, the most notable changes have to do with the touchscreens. First, a virtual keyboard has been added to both the login screen and the lock screen. In addition to that, a system has been implemented to better adjust the desktop to the resolution of each screen, in addition to other improvements.
This has been achieved thanks to full integration of WaylandIn addition, now we can handle Snappy and Flapak packages in the Discover manager, being able to install practically the packages we want and in the way we want.
Going back to the lock screen, you now have a handy music player. In this way, if we are listening to music and the computer crashes, we can change the song without having to unlock it, making the process much faster.
There are many more minor changes in KDE Plasma 5.10, such as improved task manager, the change in the volume button making it more intuitive and simple, the new drop-down menu in the folders and many more. If you want to see them all, above you have an official video in which the creators of KDE Plasma 5.10 explain it to you.
The KDE Plasma 5.10 desktop is now officially available and soon it will be included in the repositories of your favorite distribution. In addition, next week the first maintenance update is scheduled to be released, in order to correct the bugs and failures detected previously.