KDE Releases Plasma 5 · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @02:08AM 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.

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I for one, by cadeon · 2014-07-16 02:32 · Score: 5, Insightful

Thank our KDE developers for their hard work. I'm really impressed by KDE and have used it a lot over the years.
Re:Love KDE!! by Daemonik · 2014-07-16 03:53 · 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.