First Look at KDE Plasma's New Kickoff Applications Menu | Linux Today

First Look at KDE Plasma’s New Kickoff Applications Menu

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Marius Nestor
Jan 9, 2021

The new Kickoff menu is rewritten from the ground up and will be enabled by default for all new Plasma installations starting with the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.21 release. And, if you like MATE desktop???s applications menu, you’ll love Plasma’s brand-new applications menu. I wanted to see the new Kickoff menu in action and share my experience with you now, because we will have to wait more than a month until KDE Plasma 5.21 arrives in a stable form ready to conquer our GNU/Linux desktops.

MN

Marius Nestor

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