KDE Plasma 5.19 Desktop Enters Beta, Final Release Is Coming on June 9 | Linux Today

KDE Plasma 5.19 Desktop Enters Beta, Final Release Is Coming on June 9

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Marius Nestor
May 14, 2020

Highlights include automatic screen rotation on Wayland, a brand-new Audio Volume system tray widget, better Wayland support for KRunner, easier removal of Flatpak repositories from the Discover package manager, and better color-matching functionality for GTK apps. KDE Plasma 5.19 also promises a revamped KInfoCenter app that now displays information about your graphics hardware, an updated KSysGuard app that now lets users view stats for systems with more than 12 CPU cores, and an updated Digital Clock system tray widget.

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Marius Nestor

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