KDE Plasma 5.20 tray will be dark on dark theme (image edited)
It's the weekend and that usually means good things happen. Until a few months ago, we went out quietly to parties or to dinner with friends, but now the only good thing is that you can rest like you don't rest during the week. That and that Nate Graham has mentioned some "goodies" of what he and his team are preparing. KDE Community. This week's entry was titled "Plasma 5.20's First Features Begin to Land."
And it is that, although it also mentions many bug fixes that will arrive in Plasma 5.19.1, whose first version of the series has been launched this week, Graham told us has advanced Today interesting news that will come from the hand of the next installment of its graphical environment, plasma 5.20, as one that I like a lot that is a new way to show the expanded information of the system tray. Below you have the list of news that he mentioned a few moments ago.
New Features Coming to KDE
- It is now possible to independently configure file size slicing to display local and remote file previews in Dolphin (Dolphin 20.08.0).
- Now a window can be stacked in a corner if we use two keyboard shortcuts one behind the other. For example, META + Left and immediately after META + Up will place it on the upper left edge (Plasma 5.20.0).
- The notifications icon in the system tray can be centrally clicked to enter and exit Do Not Disturb mode (Plasma 5.20).
Bug fixes and performance and interface improvements
- Drawing tools in Okular's presentation mode toolbar are no longer blurry when using a High DPI screen (Okular 1.10.3).
- Yakuake's main window no longer appears below a top panel in Wayland (Yakuake 20.08.0).
- Fixed a bug that could prevent Yakuake from opening when using a dual monitor setup with a single vertical panel on one edge of the screen near the center of the full desktop (Yakuake 20.08.0).
- Kate's "Open Recent" menu now shows documents opened in Kate from the command line and other sources, not just those opened using the file dialog (Kate 20.08.0).
- Disconnected Wi-Fi networks now show the correct security type (Plasma 5.19.1).
- The Bluetooth systray applet tooltip no longer shows the wrong device name (Plasma 5.19.1).
- Fixed a bug that caused high CPU usage when scrolling through the list of rules in the new Window Rule System Preferences page (Plasma 5.19.1).
- The rows in the systray popup are now vertically centered correctly (Plasma 5.19.1).
- Right-clicking on pinned applications to run their application-specific options (for example, to open a private browsing window in Firefox or Chrome) now works correctly when the action includes command line arguments (Plasma 5.19.1 .XNUMX).
- When you search for an application in the Startup Application Launcher and then right-click on the search result, the "Edit Application ..." menu item now works (Plasma 5.19.1).
- Several applications whose .desktop files specify the icon as a full path to an SVG file now display those icons correctly in the Kicker, Kickoff, and Application Dashboard launchers (Plasma 5.19.1).
- The activity database now has automatic backup and repair mechanisms, which should reduce (if not eliminate) the appearance of favorites and recent items that are corrupted or forgotten (Plasma 5.20.0).
- Recent documents accessed in private activities are no longer visible in KRunner search results accessed from other activities (Plasma 5.20.0).
- Fixed an issue that prevented the new header look from working properly when using the Breeze Dark plasma theme (Frameworks 5.71).
- Content can no longer overflow into grid items in new Get New [Item] windows (Frameworks 5.72).
- When using a dark color scheme, the new "Get New [Item]" windows no longer display white squares in the center of each grid item before the preview image is loaded (Frameworks 5.72).
- The Baloo file indexer no longer skips indexing the names of files with a blacklisted MIME type (that is, those whose content is not useful for indexing); now it will always index file names, but will only perform full content indexing for files whose content makes sense to index. In general, this should improve file search, but just use more resources in the process (Frameworks 5.72).
- Plasma layers have been changed to replace the task manager with an icon-only task manager with some applications pinned to it by default in a thicker panel (Plasma 5.20.0).
- The panel thickness is now easier to adjust: you can use the text box to enter a number or fine-tune with plus or minus buttons, while maintaining the system that was already available (Plasma 5.20.0. XNUMX).
- The expanded view of hidden items in the systray now uses a grid instead of a list, something that from the point of view of the author of this article looks better and according to its developer, Nate Graham, it has also been modified so that easier to use on touch systems (Plasma 5.20.0).
- Task changers or switchers now have shadows in Wayland (Frameworks 5.72).
When will all this come
Plasma 5.19.1 will arrive on June 16. The next big release, Plasma 5.20 is coming October 13. In this article they have not mentioned news of the next update of the KDE apps, but it is already known that the KDE Applications 20.08.0 will arrive on August 13. KDE Frameworks 5.71 will be released today June 13, while v5.72 of it will arrive on July 11.
We remember that in order to enjoy everything mentioned here as soon as it is available we have to have added the Backports repository from KDE or use an operating system with special repositories like KDE neon