KDE Releases Plasma 5

KDE Community (3396057) writes "KDE proudly announces the immediate availability of Plasma 5.0, providing a visually updated core desktop experience that is easy to use and familiar to the user. Plasma 5.0 introduces a new major version of KDE's workspace offering. The new Breeze artwork concept introduces cleaner visuals and improved readability. Central work-flows have been streamlined, while well-known overarching interaction patterns are left intact. Plasma 5.0 improves support for high-DPI displays and ships a converged shell, able to switch between user experiences for different target devices. Changes under the hood include the migration to a new, fully hardware-accelerated graphics stack centered around an OpenGL(ES) scenegraph. Plasma is built using Qt 5 and Frameworks 5." sfcrazy reviewed the new desktop experience. It would appear the semantic desktop search features finally work even if you don't have an 8-core machine with an SSD.

I for one,

[cadeon]

Thank our KDE developers for their hard work. I'm really impressed by KDE and have used it a lot over the years.

Re:Where are the Linux apps ?

[tepples]

I thought a "pro" meant anyone who gets paid for his work. I was paid for my work [nintendoage.com] on Thwaite and RHDE: Furniture Fight [pineight.com], two NES homebrew games that I developed using GIMP, Python, ca65, and other pro quality development tools for GNU/Linux.

Re:Love KDE!!

[c6gunner]

Would like to try Plasma 5 on my Debian Jessy laptop... but sure don't want to hoze up the current Plasma 4 install....

BTRFS snapshot. Install. Try out. If you don't like it, copy BTRFS snapshot back to active.

And if you're not using BTRFS ... why not?

Re:iOS?

[tlhIngan]

I see Apple's flat style is continuing to be copied^H^H^H used as inspiration for UI developers.

Geez, it's not Apple UI innovation - not by a long shot. It started with Microsoft first (flat tiles!), then moved to Android. iOS is actually the laggard here (mostly at the behest of a bunch of over bored journalists who see "new and shiny" as "innovative" rather than "if it works, don't fix it').

Apple only caved because (noisy) journalists were calling OS X and iOS "tired" and "dated" because they looked pretty much the same over the years, while Microsoft and Google were "innovating" in UI design by going all flat so it looks "fresh and different".

For the record, I preferred the old look, I like my faux 3D, and while skeumorphism was a bit over the top with stitched leather and green felt, it still felt a bit more casual than today's flat designs that give an air of formality.

Re:I for one,

[Barsteward]

it kinda sucks that AC comments get worse, more full of shit, and post from no real experience of the topic at hand