release of a custom KDE Plasma 5.19 shell built using the platform and Qt 5 libraries using OpenGL/OpenGL ES to speed up rendering. Evaluate the work
new version can be through from the openSUSE project and builds from the project . Packages for various distributions can be found at .
Key improvements:
- The appearance of the applet for managing the playback of multimedia files located in the system tray has been updated. The design of pop-up information tips has been updated in the task manager.
- Work has been done to unify the design and titles of applets in the system tray, as well as notifications displayed on the desktop.
- The panel has improved padding and provides the ability to automatically center widgets.
- Widgets for monitoring system parameters have been completely rewritten.
- A new set of photographic avatars has been proposed, available in the user settings interface.
- By default, the new Flow desktop wallpaper is offered. In the wallpaper selection interface for the desktop, you can view information about the author of the image.
- Work has been done to improve the usability of sticky notes.
- Added additional options to control the visibility of the on-screen volume change indicator.
- Implemented the ability to instantly apply a new color scheme to applications based on GTK3. Fixed issues with displaying correct colors in GTK2 based applications.
- To improve the readability of text, the default size of monospaced fonts has been increased from 9 to 10.
- The sound control widget provides a settings page with a convenient interface for switching between available sound devices, similar in design to other widgets.
- Sections for managing default applications, online service accounts, global keyboard shortcuts, KWin scripts, and background services have been redesigned in the System Settings configurator.
- When calling the configurator modules from KRunner or the application launcher menu, a full-fledged System Settings application is launched with the opening of the required settings section.
- In the settings of the screen parameters, the display of the aspect ratio for each proposed screen resolution is implemented.
- Added the ability to fine-tune the animation speed of effects for the desktop.
- Added the ability to configure file indexing for individual directories. Implemented an option to disable indexing of hidden files.
- When using Wayland. provided the ability to adjust the scrolling speed for the mouse and touchpad.
- Many minor fixes and improvements have been made to the font settings interface.
- The application interface for viewing information about the system (Info Center) has been redesigned, which is closer to the interface of the configurator. Added the ability to view graphics hardware details.
- The KWin window manager implements a new subsurface clipping technique that solves the flickering problem in many applications. When running under Wayland, screen rotation is also supported on tablets and convertible laptops. The colors of the icons in the headers have been adjusted to match the active color scheme.
- In the Applications and Add-ons Installation Center (Discover), the design has been unified with other Plasma components. Easier removal of Flatpak repositories. Showing the application version is provided, for example, to select the desired package variant if there are several versions of the application in different repositories.
- Support for systems with more than 12 CPU cores has been added to KSysGuard.
Source: opennet.ru