With Plasma 5.18 just around the corner, KDE is really starting to focus on Plasma 5.19

Plasma 5.18 to ten days

10 days. That is the time until KDE releases the next major version of its graphical environment. It will be Plasma 5.18, a longer supported LTS release that will come with many new features, many of them important. This is something that Nate Graham reminds us in his weekly article about what the KDE Community is working on, where he also tells us that they are focusing on correcting the bugs that they are finding in v5.19 of the graphical environment.

Well, that's what it says though. Between the changes mentioned this week, there is little of Plasma v5.19. In fact, this time he has not published an article as long as in past weeks and most of the articles related to the graphical environment will arrive within ten days. If you mention two new features, both of them prepared for v5.19. We tell you these and other changes they are working on below.

News that will arrive with Plasma 5.19

  • As part of the ongoing initiative "Make Systray Applet Pop-ups Look Better", they now have the first version of the new Audio Volume pop-up. In addition to looking better, it includes a new and more obvious global "Turn up the maximum volume" setting, a global mute mode, and a less visually intrusive way to set the default audio device.
  • The KInfoCenter app now looks radically better. Under the hood, you're actually now using System Preferences to show everything; the old app no ​​longer exists! This fixes several visual bugs affecting the old app, such as inconsistent appearance of the tooltip and strange little interactive tree view headers that did nothing when clicked.

Bug fixes and performance and interface improvements

  • En Elisa, queuing all tracks of all genres now works (Elisa 19.12.2).
  • Elisa's global playlist no longer experiences visual issues when loading .m3u playlist files or deleting the first song from an album (Elisa 19.12.2).
  • Dolphin "Natural Sort" mode now works with all sort orders (Dolphin 20.04.0).
  • The Dolphin "you are about to drop an item here" indicator no longer disappears when dragging an item just above a selected item in the Places panel (Dolphin 19.12.2).
  • When Spectacle is set to take a new screenshot if the PrintScreen key is pressed while Spectacle is already running, it will now take that screenshot using the currently selected options instead of the default options (Spectacle 20.04.0).
  • Applications with spaces in their names now behave correctly when pinned to Task Manager (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • GTK applications can now use fonts with spaces in their names (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • Context menus opened from notifications now look correct and appear in the correct place in Wayland (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • Fixed the weather station selector page again after breaking it last time while fixing something else (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • Folder popup now uses correct text color for item labels (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • Entries on the systray configuration page now always have the correct icon colors (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • KInfoCenter now displays IPv6 (Plasma 5.18.0) network information.
  • Task Manager tooltip highlighting effect now looks better for tooltip that includes built-in playback controls for media (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • Buttons in notifications are now located in a more compact position (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • The VLC icon in Breeze now looks more like the original (Frameworks 5.67).

When will all this come

Plasma v5.18, version that we can already test in beta as we explain here, the 11 February And as always, there will be 5 maintenance releases arriving on February 18 and 25, March 10 and 31, and May 5. The next version, v5.19, will arrive on June 9. KDE Frameworks 5.67 will arrive on February 8th and the release date for KDE Applications 20.04 remains to be confirmed. If it is known that they will arrive in the middle of April and they will not arrive at Kubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa. The 19.12.2 applications will arrive on February 6.

We remember that in order to enjoy all these news as soon as they are available we have to install the KDE Backports repository or use an operating system with special repositories like KDE neon


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