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Tolkem

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Registered: 2019-10-06

Posts: 487

Plasma 5.21

Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life!

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

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.21.0/

I know it's probably too soon to ask but, do you think it'll be available in Gemini?

- New Application Launcher.
- fixed most of the bugs reported by users.
- Application theme improvements.
- Breeze Twilight: a combination of a dark theme for Plasma and a light theme for applications.
- Plasma System Monitor.
- KDE is pushing to have first class support for Wayland, and Plasma 5.21 makes massive progress towards reaching that goal.
- Plasma 5.21 brings a new page to System Settings: the Plasma Firewall settings.
- The Media Player widget’s layout has been improved and now includes the list of applications currently playing music in the header as a tab bar.
- In Plasma 5.21, two new components for mobile in the official release.
- Discover now supports unattended updates.
- Pin KRunner (doesn't close automatically).
- Digital Clock has better support for time zones.
- The sound applet now displays the live microphone volume.

I tried it in OpenSuse Argon, https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Argon_and_Krypton looks nice and resource usage keeps low, though not a fan of the new app launcher; has a "win 10 look-like style"

And seems like more clicking is needed to do some stuff is possible to do now in kickoff with the keyboard, i.e. use the restart, turn off buttons.

Last edited by Tolkem (2021-02-22 18:38)

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 4,502

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Re: Plasma 5.21

We suppose Plasma 5.21 should be pushed to the Bullseye repositories soon. That is a Debian developer's decision however we hope they do that as soon as possible.