KDE Plasma 5.15 Beta: Ľahká, Použiteľná a Produktívna.

Štvrtok, 17. Január 2019

Dnes KDE vydáva beta verziu Plasmy 5.15.

Pre prvé vydanie roku 2019 tím Plasma prijal cieľ KDE Použiteľnosť.

Plasma 5.15 prináša množstvo zmien v konfiguračných rozhraniach, vrátane viac možností pre komplexné sieťové nastavenia.

Prosíme, otestujte toto beta vydanie a pošlite nám hlásenia o chybách a spätnú väzbu. Finálne vydanie bude dostupné za tri týždne.

Novinky v Plasme 5.15 Beta

Widgety Plasmy

• 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.
• Zrakovo postihnutí používatelia teraz môžu čítať ikony na pracovnej ploche vďaka novo implementovanej podpore čítačky obrazovky.
• 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.

Nastavenia

• Stránka Virtuálne pracovné plochy v Systémových nastaveniach bola prepracovaná a prepísaná pre podporu na Wayland.
• 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.
• Nové efekty pracovnej plochy čerstvo nainštalované zo store.kde.org sa teraz zobrazujú v zozname v Systémových nastaveniach.
• Natívne rozlíšenie displeja je teraz indikované hviezdičkovou ikonou na stránke Displeje v Systémových nastaveniach.
• 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.
• Stránka Efekty pracovnej plochy v Systémových nastaveniach bola prenesená na QtQuickControls 2. Toto opravuje množstvo problémov.

Plasma Next

• Firefox 64 teraz môže voliteľne používať natívne dialógy otvorenia/uloženia KDE. Toto je voliteľná, najmodernejšia funkčnosť.
• 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.
• Globálny faktor škálovania používaný obrazovkami s vysokou DPI teraz rešpektujú aplikácie GTK a GNOME, keď je to celé číslo.
• Bola vyriešená široká škála problémov s témou Breeze-GTK, vrátane nekonzistentností medzi motívom Qt a GTK.

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.
• Na stránke Aktualizácie Discover je teraz možné odznačiť a znovu zaznačiť všetky dostupné aktualizácie, čo uľahčuje výber.
• 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.
• Vyhľadávanie Discover na stránke Nainštalované aplikácie teraz funguje správne, keď je nainštalovaný backend Snap.
• 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.
• The “What’s New” section is no longer displayed on app pages when it doesn't contain any relevant information.
• App and Plasma add-ons are now listed in a separate category on Discover’s Updates page.

Správa okien

• The Alt+Tab window switcher now supports screen readers for improved accessibility, and allows you to use the keyboard to switch between items.
• The KWin window manager no longer crashes when a window is minimized via a script.
• Window closing effects are now applied to dialog boxes with a parent window (e.g. an app’s Settings window, or an open/save dialog).
• Plasma configuration windows now raise themselves to the front when they get focus.

Wayland

• More work has been done on the foundations - the protocols XdgStable, XdgPopups and XdgDecoration are now fully implemented.
• Wayland now supports virtual desktops, and they work in a more fine-grained way than on X11. Users can place a window on any subset of virtual desktops, rather than just on one or all of them.
• Touch drag-and-drop is now supported in Wayland.

Správa siete

• Plasma teraz ponúka podporu pre VPN tunely WireGuard, keď je nainštalovaný príslušný zásuvný modul Network Manager.
• Teraz je možné označiť sieťové pripojenie ako 'merané'.

Breeze Ikony

Breeze Icons are released with KDE Frameworks but are extensively used throughout Plasma, so here's a highlight of some of the improvements made over the last three months.

• 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.

Iné

• Teraz je možné skryť panel menu KSysGuard — a pripomenie vám, ako ho obnoviť, rovnako ako Kate a Gwenview.
• Balík plasma-workspace-wallpapers teraz obsahuje niektoré z najlepších nedávnych tapiet Plasma.