KDE Plasma 5.24 arrives with fingerprint support, improvements and more

The new stable version of KDE Plasma 5.24 has already been released in which a series of important changes both at the software level and also changes in the aesthetic aspect of the environment, in addition to improvements and, above all, bug fixes.

In this new version of KDE Plasma 5.24 we can find that the Breeze theme was updated, when displaying catalogs, the highlight color of active elements is now taken into account, plus more visual markup has been implemented to set focus on buttons, text fields, radio buttons, sliders, and other controls.

The Breeze color scheme has been renamed to Breeze Classic for a clearer separation of the Breeze Light and Breeze Dark schemes and also removed the Breeze High Contrast color scheme, instead of which it is proposed to use a similar Breeze Dark scheme.

Another of the changes made to the aesthetic is that the notification display was improved Well, in this new version to attract the user's attention and increase visibility in the general list, especially important notifications are now highlighted with an orange stripe on the side.

Header text is made more contrasting and readable, video notifications now show a thumbnail of the content, and the position of the button to add annotations in the screenshot notification has been changed.

Regarding the improvements at the software level, we can highlight that added support for fingerprint authentication, along with which a special interface has been added to bind a fingerprint and remove previously added links. the fingerprint can be used to login, unlock the screen, use the sudo utility, and various KDE applications that require a password.

In addition to this in the task manager, the ability to change the alignment direction of the tasks in the panel was added, for example, to correctly place the task manager in the panel together with the global menu.

It is also highlighted that implemented a new overview effect (Overview) to view the content of virtual desktops and evaluate search results in KRunner, called by pressing Meta + W and blurring the background by default. When opening and closing windows, the Scale effect is enabled by default instead of the Fade effect.

In the configurator System settings, the layout of the pages has been changed with large setting lists (items are now displayed without frames) and some content has been moved to the dropdown menu ("hamburger").

In the color settings section, it is possible to change the highlight color of active elements (accent). The interface for configuring formats has been completely rewritten to QtQuick (in the future, it is planned to merge this configurator with the language configuration).

In the section of power consumption, the ability to determine the upper limit of charge for more than one battery has been added, plus the speaker test layout in sound settings has been redesigned.

In a session based in wayland, the onscreen keyboard is displayed only when the focus is in the text input area, in addition to the system tray, it was possible to show an indicator to call the virtual keyboard only in tablet mode and support for global themes was added, including, among other things, the layout settings for the alternative Latte Dock panel.

Of the other changes that stand out:

  • KRunner offers built-in help for the available search operations, which is displayed when you click the question mark or enter the "?" command.
  • The design of the "Plasma Pass" password manager has been changed.
  • When running out of battery, the widget is now limited to items related to screen brightness control.
  • The network connection and clipboard control widgets now have the ability to navigate using only the keyboard.
  • Added option to display bandwidth in bits per second.
  • Removed arrows after section names in the Kickoff menu sidebar to unify the look and feel with other side menus.
  • In edit mode, the panel can now be moved with the mouse by holding down any area, and not just the special button.
  • KWin offers the possibility to assign a keyboard shortcut to move a window to the center of the screen.
  • In Discover, a mode has been added to automatically reboot after a system update.
  • Simplified management of Flatpak package repositories and packages offered in the distribution.
  • Added protection against accidental removal of a KDE Plasma package.
  • Significantly speeded up the process of checking for updates and increased the information content of error messages.

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