KDE Plasma 5.23 arrives with many changes and celebrating its 25th anniversary

The new version of KDE Plasma 5.23 has already been released and this new version was scheduled to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the project and it is that on October 14, 1996, Matthias Ettrich announced the creation of a new free desktop environment aimed at end users, not programmers or system administrators, and capable of competing with commercial products such as CDE. The GNOME project, which had similar goals, appeared ten months later. The first stable version of KDE 1.0 was released on July 12, 1998, KDE 2.0 was released on October 23, 2000, KDE 3.0 on April 3, 2002, KDE 4.0 on January 11, 2008, KDE Plasma 5 on July 2014.

This new version from KDE Plasma 5.23 The Breeze theme has redesigned buttons, menu items, option buttons, sliders, and scroll bars. To enhance the convenience of working with touchscreens, the scroll bars and control bars (spin box) have been increased in size, plus a new load indicator, designed in the shape of a rotating gear, has been added. implemented an effect that highlights the widgets that touch the edge of the panel. Background blur is provided for widgets located on the desktop.

Another of the changes that stands out is he redesigned in code with the implementation of the new Kickoff menu, as performance improved and interference errors eliminated, in addition to providing the possibility to choose between displaying the available programs in the form of a list or a grid of icons, a button was added to anchor an open menu to the screen. On touch screens, holding down a touch now opens the context menu. Provided the ability to customize button display for session management and shutdown.

As well Improved interface for configuring system parameters is highlighted: A report of all the information previously sent to the KDE developers is provided on the Feedback page, as well as added an option to enable or disable Bluetooth during user login.

On the login screen customization page, an option to sync screen layout has been added. Search interface for existing configuration has been improved, additional keywords are attached to parameters. On the night mode settings page, notifications are provided for actions that lead to access to external location services. The color settings page offers the ability to override the base color in the color scheme.

At App control center, download is sped up and app source is displayed on install button.

In addition, the improved session performance based on the Wayland protocol, well yesand implemented the ability to paste from the clipboard with the middle mouse button and use drag and drop interface between programs that use Wayland and run using XWayland, fixed various issues with NVIDIA GPUs and also added support for changing the screen resolution at startup on virtualization systems. Improved background blur effect. The preservation of the virtual desktop parameters is ensured.

Moreover the ability to change RGB settings was provided for the Intel video controller, Added a new animation for screen rotation and improved touchpad gesture control.

Of the rest changes that stand out:

  • The task manager has a visual indication of a click on the application icons.
  • To indicate the start of the programs, a special cursor animation is proposed.
  • Added display of additional details about the current network in the network connection control widget.
  • Provided the ability to manually configure the speed for the Ethernet connection and disable IPv6.
  • Added support for additional protocols and authentication settings for connections through OpenVPN.
  • In the media player control widget, the album cover is always displayed, which is used simultaneously to form the background.
  • Achieved consistent screen layouts in multi-monitor setups between the X11 and Wayland sessions.
  • The implementation of the "Present Windows" effect has been rewritten.
  • Bug reporting app (DrKonqi) added a notification about unattended apps.
  • The button "?" It has been removed from the window titles with dialogs and settings.
  • Disabled the use of transparency when moving or resizing windows.
  • When switching to tablet mode, the systray icons are enlarged to simplify operation from touchscreens.
  • The interface for displaying notifications provides support for copying text to the clipboard using the Ctrl + C key combination.

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