Testing desktop KDE Plasma 5.25

available for testing the beta version of the user shell Plasma 5.25. You can test a new issue through live-assembly from the Opensuse project and assembly from the project KDE Neon Testing Edition . Packages for various distributions can be found at this page . Release is expected June 14.

Key Improvements :

  • In the configurator, a page is processed to configure the general design topic. The possibility of selective use of the theme elements, such as the style of applications and desktop, fonts, colors, type of window framing, pictograms and cursors, as well as a separate application of the topic to the screensaver and the screen lock interface.
  • added a separate animation effect used in the entry of the wrong password.
  • Added dialogue for managing groups of widgets ( containment ) on the screen in editing mode, which allows to clearly control the location of the panels and апплетов в привязке к разным мониторам.


  • added the possibility of using the color of the release of active elements (Accent) in linking to the wallpaper of the desktop, as well as the use of an accent color for headlines and changing the tone of the entire color scheme.
    The topic of Breeze Classic integrates supporting coloring headlines with emphasis.
  • added a fading effect for a smooth change between old and new color schemes.
  • In the panels and in the system tray, navigation is included using the keyboard.
  • Added setting to control the control mode from the touch screen (on systems with X11 you can only turn on or off the default touch screen mode, and when using Wayland, you can automatically transfer the desktop into the touch screen mode when you get a special event from the device) . При включении режима сенсорного экрана обеспечено автоматичкеское увеличение отступов между пиктограммами в панели задач.

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