Windows has long supported touch screens, or else there would be no Surface. Until now, Apple does not even want to talk about it because, of course, this could subtract sales from the iPad. In Linux, we have long had versions adapted to mobile devices, and, by extension, to touch screens, but not many projects are focusing on making a desktop Linux system work well on touch screens. If we can ensure that KDE is one of them, and we are not surprised because, as they say, they want to get everywhere.
What you have above is a capture that They have published in today's This Week in KDE article, and it's worth visiting the original link to see how responsive Plasma's overview is when activated by swiping from above. Right now it seems that it has nothing to envy iPadOS (iPad operating system), although it is also true that we do not know under what conditions or on what equipment the video was recorded. What you have next are this (which will arrive in Plasma 5.25) and others news coming soon to KDE.
As a new feature, in addition to the above, they only mentioned that when sharing using Samba, there is now a folder permission wizard window to help us get permissions right (Slava Aseev, kdenetwork-filesharing (20.08).
KDE 15 minute bugs fixed
The number has dropped from 79 to 76, and the list is in this link:
- When you have one vertical and one horizontal panel, the horizontal panel no longer overlaps and hides the vertical panel edit mode toolbar buttons (Oleg Solovyov, Plasma 5.24.3; this was actually introduced two years ago). weeks it happened to Nate Graham).
- Plasma login no longer slows down the more images have been added to the wallpaper settings (Aleix Pol González, Plasma 5.25).
- Dragging a panel from one edge of the screen to another no longer causes it to get stuck in the center of the screen (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.25).
Bug fixes and performance improvements
- KRunner-powered searches are now case-insensitive when matching text on System Preferences pages, so they can be found more easily (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma 5.24.4).
- When running the Plasma Wayland session on a VM, clicking something now makes the click actually go to the right place, instead of being slightly offset (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 5.24.4).
- The multiple boot screen app in System Preferences now works (Harald Sitter, Plasma 5.24.4).
- "Get a new [thing]" dialogs work again when using the system in a language other than English (Alexander Lohnau, Frameworks 5.93).
- Text field menus in QtQuick applications no longer display a separator as the first item or have incorrect spacing at the top (Gabriel Knarlsson, Frameworks 5.93).
- Arrows on shortcut windows in QtWidgets-based applications are now high-pin compatible (Someone with the pseudonym "snooxx ?" Frameworks 5.93).
Improvements in the user's interface
- Dolphin Back/Forward menu items now display icons (Kai Uwe Broulik, Dolphin 22.08).
- The bar showing the level of disk usage in Dolphin is now always visible, instead of only appearing on hover (Kai Uwe Broulik, Frameworks 5.93).
- The Battery and Brightness applet's power profile slider now shows its two extreme states with icons, and indicates the current mode with text above the slider like other sliders do. This prevents text from being cut off in languages that use very long words for "Power Saver", "Balanced" and "Performance". (Ivan Tkachenko and Manuel Jesús de la Fuente, Plasma 5.25).
- Recent document lists now implement a FreeDesktop standard that governs this, which means they are now in sync with GTK/GNOME applications. So, for example, you can open a file in Gwenview and it will appear as a recent document in the "Open File" dialog in GIMP (Méven Car and Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark, Frameworks 5.93).
When will this all come to KDE?
Plasma 5.24.4 will arrive next Tuesday, March 29, and Frameworks 93 will be available from April 9. Plasma 5.25 will arrive as early as June 14, and KDE Gear 22.04 will land with new features on April 21. KDE Gear 22.08 does not yet have a scheduled date.
To enjoy all this as soon as possible we have to add the repository backports from KDE or use an operating system with special repositories like Kde neon or any distribution whose development model is Rolling Release, although the latter usually take a little longer than the KDE system.