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Plasma 5.19 Beta: Consistency, Control and Usability

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Thursday, 14 May 2020

It's time to test the beta release for Plasma 5.19!

In this release, we have prioritized making Plasma more consistent, correcting and unifying designs of widgets and desktop elements; worked on giving you more control over your desktop by adding configuration options to the System Settings; and improved usability, making Plasma and its components easier to use and an overall more pleasurable experience.

Read on to discover all the new features and improvements of Plasma 5.19…

Plasma Desktop and Widgets

Rewritten System Monitor Widgets

Rewritten System Monitor Widgets

Consistent System Tray Applets

Consistent System Tray Applets

Completely New User Avatars

Completely New User Avatars

More consistent appearance for switching the current audio device

System Settings

Redesigned Settings Pages

Redesigned Settings Pages

Full System Settings App Is Now Launching

Info Center

Redesigned Info Center

Redesigned Info Center

KWin Window Manager

Icon Recoloring in the Titlebar

Icon Recoloring in the Titlebar

Discover

Flatpak Repository Removal in Discover

Flatpak Repository Removal in Discover

KSysGuard

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Package Downloads

Distributions have created, or are in the process of creating, packages listed on our wiki page.

Note that packages of this release might not be available on all distributions at the time of this announcement.

Package download wiki page

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About KDE

KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE's full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Windows, Haiku, and macOS.


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