KDE Plasma 5.17.0 is comming. What’s new?
The KDE project team today released KDE Plasma 5.17.0 desktop environment changelog. KDE Plasma 5.17 is a major release update that optimizes background performance to improve many of the core components while introducing new features that make KDE Plasma more stable, and the experience is better and more fun.
Changelog
New Features
- It’s now possible to see a network’s QR code for easy sharing with others (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, KDE Plasma 5.17.0)
- It’s now possible to sync user settings for fonts, cursors, color schemes, etc. to the SDDM login screen, ensuring a unified look and feel from boot to shutdown (Filip Fila, KDE Plasma 5.17.0)
- KRunner’s unit conversion abilities now include binary sizes like Megabytes and Gibibytes (Jonathan Rubenstein, KDE Frameworks 5.61)
- Okular now has an “Open Containing Folder” feature, so for example you can easily find the on-disk location of PDFs downloaded from the internet (me: Nate Graham, Okular 1.8.0)
Bugfixes & Performance Improvements
- It’s once again easily possible to close the Look And Feel preview window on systems using Qt 5.13 (me: Nate Graham, KDE Plasma 5.16.4)
- Fixed a recent regression that prevented documents located on remote servers from being opened using KIO’s command-line tools when the URL for the document contained a port number (Gleb Popov, KDE Plasma 5.16.4)
- Plasma no longer attempts to auto-mount already-mounted devices under certain circumstances (Méven Car, KDE Plasma 5.17.0)
- Comboboxes in QML-based software now close their open pop-ups when clicking on the combobox itself (Kai Uwe Broulik, KDE Frameworks 5.61)
- Spinboxes in QML-based software now display text that’s anti-aliased correctly and looks good with a fractional scale factor (Kai Uwe Broulik, KDE Frameworks 5.61)
- When dragging a rubber-band-selection in Dolphin, the selection box now goes away as expected after right-clicking (Jacksom Reed McNeill, Dolphin 19.08.0)
- Okular’s page borders now look good in High DPI mode (Oliver Sander, Okular 1.8.0)
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