Testing desktop KDE Plasma 5.27

is available for testing the beta version of the user shell Plasma 5.27. 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 February 14. /center>

Key improvements:

  • Assembled the Plasma welcome introduction, familiarizing users with the basic capabilities of the desktop and allows you to perform the basic setting of the main parameters, such as the attachment to the Online services. Plasma/5/5.27/Plasma-welcome.png “>
  • A new module for configuring the powers of Flatpak packages has been added to the configurator. By default, Flatpak packets are not provided with access to the rest of the system, and through the proposed interface you can selectively provide each package with the necessary powers, such as access to parts of the main FS, hardware, network connections, sound subsystem and printing.

  • processed Widget settings for the layout of screens in multi-monitor configurations. The means to control the connection of three or more monitors are significantly improved.

  • The clock widget is given the opportunity to display Jewish lunar-solar calendar.

  • In the window manager of Kwin, the capabilities of the mosaic layout of the windows are expanded. In addition to previously accessible capabilities of winding windows on the right or left, full control of the mosaic windows through the interface caused by pressing META+T. When moving a window with a shift key, the window is now automatically placed taking into account the mosaic layout.


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