Just a week ago today, KDE released a new version of its graphical environment. It came with interesting news that you can read in the related article, but it did it mainly to polish one of the best graphical environments that exist in Linux. A few moments ago, the project launched plasma 5.19.1, the first maintenance version of this series that comes to polish a delivery whose reason for being is mainly that, polish.
The funny thing, and I personally don't know why, is that Plasma 5.19.0 is not yet available in Discover, not even for those of us who have the KDE Backports repository added. Yes it has reached operating systems that use special repositories such as Kde neon, so the doubt is even greater. In any case, KDE has already announced and released the next version, and we hope that it will reach Discover in the next few hours.
Some highlights of Plasma 5.19.1
As usual, the KDE Community publishes several articles about this release, one of them with all the changes. We are going to post a shorter list advanced by Nate Graham in his weekend articles as this:
- Disconnected Wi-Fi networks now show the correct security type.
- The Bluetooth systray applet tooltip no longer displays the wrong device name.
- Fixed a bug that caused high CPU usage when scrolling through the list of rules in the new Window Rule System Preferences page.
- The rows in the systray pop-up are now vertically centered correctly.
- Right-clicking on pinned applications to run their application-specific options (for example, to open a private browsing window in Firefox or Chrome) now works correctly when the action includes command line arguments.
- When you search for an application in the Startup Application Launcher and then right-click on the search result, the "Edit Application ..." menu item now works.
- Several applications whose .desktop files specify the icon as a full path to an SVG file now display those icons correctly in the Kicker, Kickoff, and Application Dashboard launchers.
Soon in special repositories like KDE Backports
As we have mentioned, the launch is official, but we will still have to wait a bit for the updates to appear in Discover, as long as it does not happen like in the previous version and we have to wait a few weeks. We also have to remember that the most up-to-date Plasma versions do not reach the official repositories such as those for systems like Kubuntu, but rather some special ones such as the KDE Backports or the KDE neon ones.