Plasma 5.21 Beta

We did a thing. A pretty one

Plasma 5.21 is all about upgrading the looks and usability of Plasma.

Četrtek, 21. januar 2021

Plasma 5.21 Beta

Development of the upcoming version of Plasma 5.21 has, among other things, introduced many improvements into Plasma’s design, utilities and themes, with the aim of providing end users with a more pleasant and accessible environment.

Although most things in Plasma 5.21 beta will work fine, please note it is still beta software and released mainly for testing purposes. Using this software in production is NOT recommended.

Končna različica Plasma 5.21 bo na voljo 16. februarja.

Nov zaganjalnik programov

Plasma 5.21 introduces a new application launcher that features a double-pane UI, improvements to keyboard and mouse navigation, better accessibility and support for languages with RTL writing.

The new launcher includes an alphabetical “All Applications” view, a grid-style favorites view, and power actions visible by default with their labels.

Last but not least, we have fixed most of the bugs reported by users, guaranteeing a smoother access to all your stuff.

The old Kickoff app launcher is still available at store.kde.org.

Izboljšave teme aplikacije

Applications using Plasma’s default theme now have a refreshed color scheme and sport a brand new unified headerbar style with a clean, cool new look.

Breeze Twilight

Meet Breeze Twilight: a combination of a dark theme for Plasma and a light theme for applications, so you can enjoy the best of both worlds. It’s available in the Global Theme settings

Sistemski monitor Plasma

Plasma System Monitor is a new UI for monitoring system resources. It is built on top of Kirigami and a system statistics service called “KSystemStats”. It shares code with the new system monitor applets introduced in Plasma 5.19 and is designed to succeed KSysGuard.

Plasma System Monitor provides many different views, offering an overview page that provides information on important core resources, like memory, disk space, network and CPU usage. It also provides a quick view of the applications consuming the most resources.

If you need more details, the Applications page shows you all the running applications along with detailed statistics and graphs. A process page is also available for per process information.

History shows the evolution of the use of your machine’s resources over time.

Finally, you can also create new customized pages using the page editor. This lets you tailor the information you get from your system to your needs.

KWin in Wayland

KDE is pushing to have first class support for Wayland, and Plasma 5.21 makes great headway to reach that goal.

The compositing code in KWin has been extensively refactored and should reduce latency throughout all compositing operations. We have also added a control in the compositing settings so you can choose whether you prefer lower latency or smoother animations.

In addition, we have also added support for mixed-refresh-rate display setups on Wayland, e.g. you can have one screen refreshing at 144Hz and another at 60Hz. Preliminary support for multiple GPUs was also added on Wayland.

The virtual keyboard in Wayland has been improved and now supports GTK applications using the text-input-v3 protocol. The support for graphical tablets has also been improved and now includes all the controls that were missing in the previous version, such as pad ring and pad buttons.

Apart from the numerous improvements in stability, there are quite a few Plasma components that are getting much better support in Wayland. For example, KRunner is now able to list all open windows in Wayland, and we now support features required for GTK4, so GTK4 application will now work.

Sistemske nastavitve

Plasma 5.21 brings a new page to the System Settings: the Plasma Firewall settings. This configuration module lets you set up and edit a Firewall for your system and is a graphical frontend for both UFW and firewalld.

Multiple pre-existing configuration pages have been completely rewritten and are now cleaner and easier to use. This has been the case for the Accessibility, Desktop Session and SDDM configuration modules.

Applets

The Media Player applet’s layout has been improved and now includes the list of applications currently playing music in the header as a tab bar. Another upgrade is that the album cover now takes up the whole width of the applet.

Plasma Mobile

Plasma je bila vedno zasnovana tako, da je prilagodljiva. Deluje lahko na namizju, vendar je tudi enostavno prilagodljiva za delo na mobilnem telefonu. Izdaja skupnosti PinePhone KDE je zdaj na voljo. V Plasma 5.21 dodajamo dve novi komponenti za mobilne naprave v uradni izdaji.

The Plasma Phone Components contains the mobile shell but also specific plasma widgets adapted for Plasma Mobile.
QQC2 Breeze Style is a pure Qt Quick Controls 2 style. It visually fits in with the widget based desktop Breeze theme and was optimized for lower RAM and GPU usage.

Druge posodobitve

Odkrijte

Support unattended updates

KRunner

Pin KRunner (doesn't close automatically)

Digitalna ura

Better support for timezones

Sound Applet

The sound applet now displays the live microphone volume

A full changelog is available here.

Žive slike sistemov

Najlažji način je preizkusiti z živo sliko sistema, zagnanega z diska USB. Slike Docker omogočajo tudi hiter in enostaven način preskušanja Plasme.

Prenesi žive slike sistema s Plasmo 5 Prenesi slike Docker s Plasmo 5

Prenosi paketov

Distribucije so ustvarile ali imajo v delu pakete, navedene na naši wiki strani.

Upoštevajte, da paketi te izdaje morda še niso na voljo na vseh distribucijah ob času te objave.

Stran wiki za prenos paketov

Prenosi izvorne kode

Plasma 5 lahko namestite neposredno iz izvorne kode.

Navodila skupnosti kako izvesti prevod Stran s podatki o izvorni kodi

Povratni odziv

Lahko nam pošljete povratne informacije in pridobite posodobitve na naših kanalih v družabnih omrežjih:

Pogovorite se o Plasma 5 na forumu KDE Forums Plasma 5 board.

Razvijalcem lahko povratne informacije posredujete neposredno prek kanala IRC #Plasma, poštnega seznama Plasma-devel ali pa poročate o težavah prek Bugzille. Če vam je všeč, kar počne ekipa, jim to sporočite!

Vaše povratne informacije zelo cenimo.

Podpora KDE-ju

KDE je skupnost Proste programske opreme, ki obstaja in raste samo zaradi pomoči številnih prostovoljcev, ki prispevajo svoj čas in trud. KDE vedno išče nove prostovoljce in prispevke, najsi gre za pomoč pri kodiranju, odpravljanju napak ali poročanju, pisanju dokumentacije, prevodov, promociji, denarju itd. Vsi prispevki so hvaležno cenjeni in nestrpno sprejeti. Prosimo, preberite Podpora KDEju za dodatne informacije ali postanite KDE e.V. podporni član prek naše pobude Pridružite se igri.

O KDE

KDE je mednarodna tehnološka ekipa, ki ustvarja prosto in odprtokodno programsko opremo za namizno in prenosno računalništvo. Med KDE-jeve izdelke spadajo sodoben namizni sistem za platforme Linux in UNIX, obsežna zbirka programov za produktivno pisarno in skupno delo ter na stotine naslovov programske opreme v številnih kategorijah, vključno z internetom in spletnimi aplikacijami, multimedijo, zabavo, izobraževanjem, grafiko in razvojem programske opreme. Programska oprema KDE je prevedena v več kot 60 jezikov in je zgrajena za enostavno uporabo in upoštevanjem sodobnih načel dostopnosti. KDE-jeve popolne aplikacije delujejo neposredno v Linuxu, BSD, Solarisu, Windows in macOSu.

Obvestila o blagovnih znamkah.

KDE^® in logotip the K Desktop Environment^® sta blagovni znamki KDE e.V..
Linux je registrirana blagovna znamka Linusa Torvaldsa. UNIX je registrirana blagovna znamka The Open Group v ZDA in drugih državah.
Vse druge blagovne znamke in avtorske pravice, omenjene v tej objavi, so last njihovih lastnikov.

Stiki za novinarje

Za več informacij nam pošljite e-pošto: press@kde.org