KDE Plasma 5.12.8 LTS Desktop Environment Released with over 70 Improvements | Linux Today

KDE Plasma 5.12.8 LTS Desktop Environment Released with over 70 Improvements

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Marius Nestor
Mar 6, 2019

KDE Plasma 5.12.8 LTS is now available as a point release to the KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS desktop environment, bringing more than 70 chnages that include breeze_cursors as default cursor theme, improved weather notifications, better contrast of crosshair cursors, keyboard navigation support for the KonsoleProfiles applet, as well as Qt 5.12 compatibility for the PulseAudio sound server. Other notable changes include a fix for the autologin session loading in SDDM KCM, a fix for the group popup dialog, improved selection of default web browser in Componentchooser KCM, focus handling fixes, improved drop between shared views, and numerous improvements to the weather data engine.

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Marius Nestor

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