KDE Plasma 5.17 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

KDE Plasma 5.17 brings numerous new features and enhancements, such as Night Color support on X11, multi-screen and HiDPI improvements, fractional scaling on Wayland, support for managing and configuring Thunderbolt devices in System Settings, much-improved notifications with automatic detection of presentations, as well as Breeze GTK theme support for Google Chrome and Chromium web browsers. Multiple System Settings pages have been redesigned in KDE Plasma 5.17 to help you configure your KDE Plasma system easier and quicker, System Monitor now displays NVidia GPU stats, the Plasma Discover package manager now shows icons for Snap apps, the Breeze GTK theme now also supports system color schemes for GTK and GNOME apps, and last but not least Plasma now starts even faster.