KDE Plasma 5.15 Beta: Lightweight, Usable and Productive.

2019년 1월 17일 목요일

Today KDE launches the beta release of Plasma 5.15.

For the first release of 2019, the Plasma team has embraced KDE's Usability & Productivity goal. We have teamed up with the VDG (Visual Design Group) contributors to get feedback on all the papercuts in our software that make your life less smooth, and fixed them to ensure an intuitive and consistent workflow for your daily use.

Plasma 5.15 brings a number of changes to our configuration interfaces, including more options for complex network configurations. Many icons have been added or redesigned. Our integration with third-party technologies like GTK and Firefox has been made even more complete. Discover, our software and add-on installer, has received a metric tonne of improvements to help you stay up-to-date and find the tools you need to get your tasks done.

Please test this beta release and send us bug reports and feedback. The final release will be available in three weeks' time.

Plasma 5.15 베타의 새로운 기능

Plasma 위젯

• Bluetooth devices now show their battery status in the power widget. Note that this cutting-edge feature requires the latest versions of the upower and bluez packages.
• It’s now possible to download and install new wallpaper plugins straight from the wallpaper configuration dialog.
• Filenames on desktop icons now have enough horizontal space to be legible even when their icons are very tiny, and are easier to read when the wallpaper is very light-colored or visually busy.
• Visually impaired users can now read the icons on the desktop thanks to the newly-implemented screen reader support for desktop icons.
• The Notes widget now has a 'Transparent with light text' theme.
• It's now possible to configure whether scrolling over the virtual desktop Pager widget will “wrap around” when reaching the end of the virtual desktop list.
• The padding and appearance of notification pop-ups have been improved.
• KRunner has received several usability improvements. It now handles duplicates much better, no longer showing duplicate bookmarks from Firefox or duplicate entries when the same file is available in multiple categories. Additionally, the layout of the standalone search widget now matches KRunner's appearance.
• The Devices Notifier is now much smarter. When it's configured to display all disks instead of just removable ones, it will recognize when you try to unmount the root partition and prevent you from doing so.

설정

• System Settings Virtual Desktops page has been redesigned and rewritten for support on Wayland, and now sports greater usability and visual consistency.
• The user interface and layout for the Digital Clock and Folder View settings pages have been improved to better match the common style.
• Many System Settings pages have been tweaked with the goal of standardizing the icons, wording, and placement of the bottom buttons, most notably the “Get New [thing]…” buttons.
• store.kde.org에서 새로 설치한 데스크톱 효과가 시스템 설정 데스크톱 효과 페이지의 목록에 나타납니다.
• 시스템 설정 디스플레이 페이지에 네이티브 디스플레이 해상도를 별 모양 아이콘으로 표시합니다.
• The System Settings Login Screen page received plenty of visual improvements. The image preview of the default Breeze theme now reflects its current appearance, the background color of the preview matches the active color scheme, and the sizes and margins were adjusted to ensure that everything fits without being cut off.
• The System Settings Desktop Effects page has been ported to QtQuickControls 2. This fixes a number of issues such as bad fractional scaling appearance, ugly dropdown menu checkboxes, and the window size being too small when opened as a standalone app.

크로스 플랫폼 통합

• Firefox 64 can now optionally use native KDE open/save dialogs. This is an optional, bleeding-edge functionality that is not yet included in any distribution. However, it can be enabled by installing the xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-kde packages and setting GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 in Firefox's .desktop file.
• Integration modules xdg-desktop-portal-kde and plasma-integration now support the Settings portal. This allows sandboxed Flatpak and Snap applications to respect your Plasma configuration - including fonts, icons, widget themes, and color schemes - without requiring read permissions to the kdeglobals configuration file.
• 정수 비율로 HiDPI 화면의 크기를 조정할 때 GTK 및 GNOME 앱에도 적용됩니다.
• A wide variety of issues with the Breeze-GTK theme have been resolved, including the inconsistencies between the light and dark variants. We have also made the theme more maintainable, so future improvements will be much easier.

Discover

• Options for upgrading your distribution are now included in Discover’s Update Notifier widget. The widget will also display a “Restart” button if a restart is recommended after applying all updates, but the user hasn’t actually restarted yet.
• On Discover’s Updates page, it’s now possible to uncheck and re-check all available updates to make it easier to pick and choose the ones you want to apply.
• Discover’s Settings page has been renamed to “Sources” and now has pushbuttons instead of hamburger menus.
• Distribution repository management in Discover is now more practical and usable, especially when it comes to Ubuntu-based distros.
• Discover now supports app extensions offered with Flatpak packages, and lets you choose which ones to install.
• Handling for local packages has been improved, so Discover can now indicate the dependencies and will show a 'Launch' button after installation.
• When performing a search from the Featured page, Discover now only returns apps in the search results. Add-ons will appear in search results only when a search is initiated from an add-on category.
• Discover’s search on the Installed Apps page now works properly when the Snap backend is installed.
• Handling and presentation of errors arising from misconfigured add-on repos has also been improved.
• Discover now respects your locale preferences when displaying dates and times.
• 정보가 없는 경우 더 이상 앱 페이지의 "새로운 기능" 부분을 표시하지 않습니다.
• App and Plasma add-ons are now listed in a separate category on Discover’s Updates page.

창 관리

• Alt+Tab 창 전환기에서 스크린 리더를 지원하여 접근성을 개선했으며 키보드를 사용하여 항목간을 전환할 수 있습니다.
• 스크립트로 창을 최소화했을 때 KWin 창 관리자가 더 이상 충돌하지 않습니다.
• 창 닫기 효과를 부모 창(예: 앱의 설정 창 또는 열기/저장 대화 상자)이 있는 대화 상자에도 적용합니다.
• Plasma 설정 창에 초점이 맞았을 때 맨 앞으로 나타납니다.

Wayland

• 기반 작업을 더 진행했습니다: XdgStable, XdgPopups 및 XdgDecoration 프로토콜을 완전히 구현했습니다.
• Wayland에서 가상 데스크톱을 지원하며 X11보다 더 세부적인 방식으로 작동합니다. 단지 하나 혹은 모든 가상 데스크톱에 창을 표시하는 것뿐만 아니라 임의로 지정한 가상 데스크톱에 창을 배치할 수 있습니다.
• Wayland에서 터치 드래그 앤 드롭을 지원합니다.

네트워크 관리

• Plasma에 필요한 Network Manager 플러그인을 설치하면 WireGuard VPN 터널을 지원합니다.
• 네트워크 연결을 "종량제"로 표시할 수 있습니다.

Breeze 아이콘

Breeze 아이콘은 KDE 프레임워크와 함께 출시되지만, Plasma에서 광범위하게 사용하므로 지난 3개월 동안의 변경 사항 일부를 요약해서 표시합니다.

• A variety of Breeze device and preference icons have been improved, including the multimedia icons and all icons that depict a stylized version of a Plasma wallpaper.
• The Breeze emblem and package icons have been entirely redesigned, resulting in a better and more consistent visual style, plus better contrast against the icon they’re drawn on top of.
• In new installs, the Places panel now displays a better icon for the Network place.
• The Plasma Vault icon now looks much better when using the Breeze Dark theme.
• Python bytecode files now get their own icons.

기타

• KSysGuard의 메뉴 표시줄을 숨길 수 있습니다. Kate와 Gwenview처럼 다시 표시할 수 있는 방법을 알립니다.
• plasma-workspace-wallpapers 패키지에 최신 Plasma 배경 그림을 추가했습니다.