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KDE Releases Plasma 5

Posted by Unknown on from the wobblier-windows dept.

KDE Community (3396057) writes "KDE proudly announces the immediate availability of Plasma 5.0, providing a visually updated core desktop experience that is easy to use and familiar to the user. Plasma 5.0 introduces a new major version of KDE's workspace offering. The new Breeze artwork concept introduces cleaner visuals and improved readability. Central work-flows have been streamlined, while well-known overarching interaction patterns are left intact. Plasma 5.0 improves support for high-DPI displays and ships a converged shell, able to switch between user experiences for different target devices. Changes under the hood include the migration to a new, fully hardware-accelerated graphics stack centered around an OpenGL(ES) scenegraph. Plasma is built using Qt 5 and Frameworks 5." sfcrazy reviewed the new desktop experience. It would appear the semantic desktop search features finally work even if you don't have an 8-core machine with an SSD.

4 of 108 comments (clear)

  1. What takes 100% of the CPU in this release? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Last time i tried it was called nepomuk. Did they rename the process? :)

    1. Re:What takes 100% of the CPU in this release? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      It would appear the semantic desktop search features finally work even if you don't have an 8-core machine with an SSD.

  2. Re:Where are the Linux apps ? by amalcolm · · Score: 3, Informative

    From a embedded systems designer: FPGA development - Lattice Diamond runs on Linux - free to download, not open source KiCAD Schematic capture & PCB layout - free to download, open source VariCad Mech designer - licenced software MPLabX PIC microprocessor IDE - free to download Qt for cross platform apps Windows/Linux/Android/iOS With Libre office & other tools it's quite possible to run an engineering business from a Linux platform, which I do.

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    Time for bed, said Zebedee - boing
  3. Re:Love KDE!! by Daemonik · · Score: 5, Informative

    The names are often from languages other than English, because Linux is developed internationally. Like how Wiki is Hawaiian and Ubuntu is Nguni Bantu.

    Nepomuk is a town in the Czech Republic and the name of a Saint. Baloo comes from Rudyard Kipling Anglicizing the Hindi word bhalu.

    So shut up with your whining. They're not hurting you.