KDE Plasma 5.25 Released

Long-time Slashdot reader jrepin describes Plasma as "a popular desktop environment, which is also powering the desktop mode on the Steam Deck portable gaming console." And this week the KDE Community announced the release of KDE Plasma 5.25:This new version brings many improvements... - The accent colour can now be set based on the prominent colour from the current desktop background image (it updates if you use slide-show wallpapers) and it applies to more graphical elements. - Floating Panels add a margin all around the panel to make it float while no window is maximised. - Touch-screen mode can now be activated by detaching the screen, rotating it 360, or enabling it manually. - The Global Theme settings page lets you pick and choose which parts to apply. - The Application page for Discover has been redesigned and gives you links to the application's documentation and website, and shows what system resources it has access to. - Panels can now be navigated with the keyboard, and you can assign custom shortcuts to focus individual panels. Lilputing.com adds that "There's a new Overview effect that zooms out to display previews of all currently-running apps and virtual desktops. You can access this view with a four-finger pinch on a touchscreen or touchpad, and from this view, you can also search for apps, documents, or browser tabs or add, remove, or rename virtual desktops."

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