KDE Plasma 5.3 Has Released
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The latest KDE desktop, KDE Plasma 5.3 has released.
Here are some highlights of KDE Plasma 5:
- KDE 5 applications were rewritten using Qt 5; the next generation of the famous Qt library to design graphical interfaces, that means that KDE 5 apps will be faster than KDE 4 beside a better usage of GPU from KDE 5 applications.
- Completely new look for KDE 5 Plasma, with the new “Breeze” theme, KDE 5 Plasma is much more beautiful than KDE 4.x with the new flat design, beside the nice look, the “Breeze” theme is lighter than the default theme for KDE 4.
- The Start menu for KDE 5 Plasma has been redesigned and notifications area has also been redesigned, less popup windows providing a better user experience to access the notifications.
- The lockscreen window is also redesigned with a better login interface.
Smoother performance, KDE 5 Plasma applications are rendered up on the top of the OpenGL scenegraph which means that KDE 5 programs has the priority when being rendered beside other process. - Hardware-acceleration migration is now complete, this means that Plasma 5 rendering will be faster now because of the fully-usage for the GPU.
- A nice set of new wallpapers, will look perfectly on the default theme.
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Are there any distros out there using KDE 5 yet?
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@dafyre said:
Are there any distros out there using KDE 5 yet?
I don't believe so. You have to deploy it manually for the moment. I suspect that Fedora 23 and Ubuntu 10.10 will have it.
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@dafyre said:
Are there any distros out there using KDE 5 yet?
Kubuntu has backported KDE 5 to their 15.04 release.
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/plasma-532-and-frameworks-5120-backported-kubuntu-1504
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@johnhooks Nice! I just got Fedora 22 going on my laptop (with the correct video drivers this time)... Maybe I should give it a go!
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@dafyre said:
@johnhooks Nice! I just got Fedora 22 going on my laptop (with the correct video drivers this time)... Maybe I should give it a go!
I downloaded the KDE spin and it already had it installed, so I will be of no help installing it afterward
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Probably pretty easy. Fedora normally has single command environmental installers.
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How do you like KDE 5 on Fedora?
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@scottalanmiller said:
How do you like KDE 5 on Fedora?
I like it. I always customized the crap out of KDE before, but I just left it on the breeze theme. Fedora made their own, and it's a little more transparent than breeze, but it still looks nice.
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Cool. I was a KDE guy going back to Caldera 1.3 circa 1997 or 1998. I want to see what they've been up to.
