Recently, KDE announce to release of a new version of KDE plasma in October month. And this news gives you a smile on your face if you are a KDE fan or KDE lover. Now, After the development of several months, the KDE development team announce to launch the new version of KDE plasma. In this update, you will see many new features and improvements. So this is a massive release it’ll now and it’s looking with new UI and icon-only task manager hats come with a lot of changes.
Now It also has a slightly thicker default panel, redesigned OSDs for brightness and volume, improvement to digital clock applet, new default shortcut for moving and resizing windows (Meta+drag).
And in this version, you also see some important changes and Krunner launcher, and this launcher runs in a standalone, free-floating window. But KDE Plasma 5.20 brings lots of other enhancements to many parts of the desktop environment to make your experience better and more enjoyable.
Wayland support continues to be improved with each new Plasma release, and version 5.20 brings screencasting support, the ability to paste things in KDE apps using the middle mouse click, support for the Klipper clipboard app, adjustable scroll speeds for mouse and touchpad, as well as much-improved stability.
Now, some system settings also improved in this update. You’ll see many new notification features, Bluetooth, Autostart, and many more. You will also see a page manager and some global shortcut pages.
So if you are a fan of KDE plasma then I will suggest you install the new version of this update because here you have to see many new updates and new features so download this version. But all in all, it’s indeed a massive release, and you can try the LTS version on 13 Oct, 2020. KDE 5.20 UI image –
Download from KDE official website: https://kde.org/plasma-desktop
Final Thought
So, If you are KDE fan then I will recommend you update your Linux operating system or download you KDE plasma desktop on 13 Oct of if you want to use earlier the you can also update beta version for testing purpose.