KDE Plasma 5

KDE Plasma 5 is the fifth and current generation of the desktop environment developed by KDE. Plasma 5 is

the desktop component of KDE, and is the successor to KDE Plasma 4. It was first released on July 15, 2014.

Features
KDE Plasma 5 is built using Qt Frameworks 5 and KDE Frameworks 5. Plasma 5.0 improves support for HiDPI displays and ships a converged graphical shell, able to switch between the shells for different target devices. It includes a new default theme, known as Breeze( Icon Theme Availble for LXDE and other desktops see kde.org ).

Windowing Systems
Plasma 5 is developed for use with the X Window System, with support for Wayland under development. Full support for Wayland is expected in the 5.4 release.

Release History
Feature releases are timed at three month intervals, with intervening bug fix releases.

Adoption
KDE Plasma 5 is the default desktop environment on Kubuntu since version 15.04

openSUSE Tumbleweed uses version 5.3