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KDE Plasma 5.3 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

jrepin writes: The KDE community has released Plasma 5.3, a major new version of the popular, open source desktop environment. The latest release brings much enhanced power management, better support for Bluetooth, and improved Plasma widgets. Also available is a technical preview of Plasma Media Center shell. In addition, Plasma 5.3 represents a big step towards support for the Wayland windowing system. There are also a few other minor tweaks and over 300 bugfixes. Here is the full changelog, and here's the package download wiki page.

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  1. Re:Popularity by kenaaker · · Score: 3, Informative
    I did find a survey (with, like, percentages and everything...) Here http://www.itworld.com/article....

    It seems to reflect Gnomes efforts to be very selective about their users.

  2. Re: Popularity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Xfce and KDE are popular among powerusers who need to get the most out of their systems. Those two desktop environments are the most technologically superior ones.

    GNOME 2 and its derivatives are still used by some powerusers, too. But most have migrated to Xfce or KDE, since GNOME 2 is getting outdated in many ways.

    GNOME 3 sees some use, but typically only by new and casual users who don't know that they're suffering an inferior experience.