 KDE Plasma 5
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| Founded: |
2014 (edit) |
| Version: | 5.0 (edit) |
| Release Date: | July 15, 2014. (edit) |
| Next Release: | Unknown. (edit) |
| Platform(s): | Template:KDE Plasma 5/platform (edit) |
| Packaging: | Template:KDE Plasma 5/packager (edit) |
| Interface(s): | Template:KDE Plasma 5/desktop (edit) |
| Derivative of: | KDE Plasma 4 (edit) |
| Home Page: | https://www.kde.org/plasma-desktop (edit) |
KDE Plasma 5 is the fifth generation of the desktop environment developed by KDE. 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.
Overview[]
Features[]
KDE Plasma 5 is built using Qt Frameworks 5 and KDE Frameworks 5. Plasma 5 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.
| Version | Date | Features |
|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | July 15, 2014 | First Release |
| 5.1 | October 15, 2014 | Ported features from Plasma 4 |
| 5.2 | January 27, 2015 | New components including SSDM, Kscreen, and KDecoration |
| 5.3 | April 28, 2015 | Tech preview of Plasma Media Center, improved bluetooth and touchpad support, enhanced power management |
| 5.4 | August 25, 2015 | Initial Wayland support (Planned) |
| 5.5 | December 8, 2015 | Updated Breeze Plasma theme, supporting two columns on widgets, new applets |
| 5.6 | March 22, 2016 | Slicker Plasma theme, supechanged task manager, smoother widgets, weather, shipped Wayland. |
| 5.7 | June 14, 2016 | Improved Workflows, Better Kiosk Support, New System Tray and Task Manager, Huge Steps Towards Wayland. |
| 5.8 | October 4, 2016 | Unified Boot to Shutdown Artwork, Right-to-Left Language Support, Improved Applets, Simplified Global Shortcuts, Other improvements, We’re in Wayland! |
| 5.9 | January 31, 2017 | |
| 5.10 | May 30, 2017 | |
| 5.11 | October 10, 2017 |
Adoption[]
KDE Plasma 5 is the default desktop environment on Kubuntu since version 15.04
openSUSE Tumbleweed uses version 5.3