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Plasma 5 Release Candidate Announced

Posted by Soulskill on from the test-before-it's-too-late dept.

sfcrazy writes: The KDE Community has announced the first release of Plasma 5. It's a release candidate, so it's meant for testing and preview purposes, like the developer preview of Android L. The final release will be announced next week, so this is the last chance for testers and developers to find issues and get them fixed before the release.

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  1. No way to distinguish which is the active window. by dotancohen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is the active window in the official screenshot:
    http://kde.org/announcements/p...

    It looks like usability took a back seat to "Apple-like" flat, monochromatic design on this one.

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  2. Gnome 3 by DrYak · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would you have preferred that it looks more like Gnome3 ?!

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    1. Re:Gnome 3 by xyzzymage · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I use KDE in large part because it separates the window element/widget design (checkboxes, etc.) from the colors, and lets me control what color everything is -- the defaults that KDE, Xfce, etc. all pick tend to be so low-color & high/low-contrast that they give me headaches. I also generally prefer KDE because of the little useful touches like the easily-added/programmed extra context menu actions in the file manager, integration of KDE-Look, and things like that.