Archives For November 30, 1999

KDE Plasma 5.16

KDE Plasma 5.19 was released today with many new features, stability improvements, and better Wayland support.

KDE Plasma 5.19 release highlights:

  • New wallpaper
  • New collection of user avatars.
  • Consistent system tray applets.
  • Rewritten system monitor widgets.
  • New configurable file indexing options for individual directories
  • New option to configure mouse / touchpad scroll speed on Wayland.
  • Overhaul system settings pages
  • Redesigned info center, added information about graphics hardware.
  • KWin Window Manager improvements
  • Discover now displays app version and easy to remove Flatpak repositories.
  • Updated KSysGuard that support systems with more than 12 CPU cores
  • Screen rotation for tablets and convertible laptops works on Wayland.

Download / Install Plasma 5.19:

The new release packages will be made into Kubuntu Backports PPA in a few days.

For live images, source tarball, go to KDE Plasma 5.19 release note.