Available The release of the user shell KDE Plasma 5.27, built using the KDE Frameworks 5 platform and the QT 5 library using Opengl/Opengl ES to accelerate the drawing. Evaluate the work
The new version can be through live-assembly from the Opensuse project and the assembly from the project kde neon user Edition . Packages for various distributions can be found at this page . Issue 5.27 will be the last before the formation of the KDE Plasma 6.0 branch, built on the basis of Qt 6.
Key improvements:
- Assembled the Plasma welcome introduction, familiarizing users with the basic capabilities of the desktop and allows you to perform the basic setting of the main parameters, such as the attachment to the Online services. Plasma/5/5.27/Plasma-welcome.png “>
- In the window manager of Kwin, the capabilities of the mosaic layout of the windows are expanded. In addition to previously accessible capabilities of winding windows on the right or left, full control of the mosaic windows through the interface caused by pressing META+T. When moving a window with a shift key, the window is now automatically placed taking into account the mosaic layout.
- The configuration of the configurator (System settings) was carried out, aimed at reducing pages with settings and transferring small options to other sections. For example, setting up the cursor animation during the launch of the applications is transferred to the cursors page, the settings release button are moved to the Hamburgger menu, and all the global volume settings are transferred to the sound volume and no more separately in the volume change in the widget. Improved settings of sensory screens and tablets.
- A new module for configuring the powers of Flatpak packages has been added to the configurator. By default, Flatpak packets are not provided with access to the rest of the system, and through the proposed interface you can selectively provide each package with the necessary powers, such as access to parts of the main FS, hardware, network connections, sound subsystem and printing.
- processed Widget settings for the layout of screens in multi-monitor configurations. The means to control the connection of three or more monitors are significantly improved.
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