With the fourth maintenance update for the current Linux desktop KDE Plasma 5.25, which brings a facelift to its UI for a better user experience (UX), developers fix possible crashes of the Wine application and ProtonGames in sessions with the free Display Server protocol wayland,
Fewer crashes under Wine and Proton
Just three weeks after the release of KDE Plasma 5.25.3, KDE Plasma 5.25.4 aims to further improve the free desktop Wayland Sessions by fixing an issue that could cause Wine applications and Proton games to crash on Steam. This problem mostly occurs when users switch between virtual desktops with touchpad swipe gestures. Accidents apart from k-winKDE Plasma’s Window Manager and Wayland Compositor have fixed mouse pointer animations and improved window shade function.
according to the officer release notes The following modules of the desktop environment received an update:
- k-win
- Sameer
- discover
- information Center
- plasma addons
- plasma workbench
- plasma desktop
- power devil
- firewall
- oxygen
KDE Plasma Is Even More Customizable Right Now
Based on latest KDE Framework 5.95 and cross-platform free GUI toolkit Qt are in version 5.15.3 KDE Registered Association Supported developers from the KDE community released the latest version of their free desktop. KDE Plasma 5.25 continues the path already followed by KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS, but sets entirely new visual accents.
In addition to the so-called “floating panels”, a new alternative view to the Windows taskbar’s equivalent, which resembles a dock much like macOS’s, and an even more customizable Plasma theme, along with additional adaptive accent colors, the main focus of the free The KDE developer community is currently on a consistent user interface and an improved user experience.
Testing KDE Plasma 5.25 with KDE Neon
The easiest way to try out KDE Plasma 5.25 is with KDE Neon, an in-house Ubuntu derivative from the company’s own community specifically aimed at showcasing the benefits of KDE Plasma with the latest packages.
- KDE Plasma 5.25.4
- KDE Framework 5.96
- KDE Gear 22.04.3
As always, the latest KDE Neon build 20220728 from July 28 can be downloaded directly from the Computerbase download area at the bottom of this message.
More details will be provided by the official site simultaneously developer blog,
