KDE Frameworks 5.27 Released for Plasma 5.8 with New MIME Types Icons, Bug Fixes | Linux Today

KDE Frameworks 5.27 Released for Plasma 5.8 with New MIME Types Icons, Bug Fixes

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Marius Nestor
Oct 8, 2016

KDE Frameworks 5.27.0 is now the latest version, and the most advanced one, bringing a large number of improvements to many the core components included in the suite. However, the most important change in KDE Frameworks 5.27 is the implementation of a new MIME types icons (see the screenshot attached on the right for more details). KDE Frameworks 5.27.0 has been released today for the KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS desktop. As mentioned before many of the components that come pre-installed with the KDE Frameworks project received various improvements, and among the them we can mention KTextEditor, Plasma Framework, KIO, KPty, KWallet Framework, KXmlRpcClient, NetworkManagerQt, KPeople, KParts, Package Framework, KNewStuff, KItemViews, KFileMetaData, KDocTools, KCrash, and KCoreAddons.

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Marius Nestor

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