What’s new in KDE Plasma 5.25?

According to the KDE community, the new version of Plasma 5.25 improves navigation between windows and workspaces. It was released on June 14th and is now available for most GNU/Linux distributions.

Whats new in KDE Plasma 525

A few weeks after the release of the last LTS edition of KDE 5.24, Plasma version 5.25, announced a few days ago on the official blog, is full of very remarkable new features.

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Starting with the Gestures with keyboard and touch screens. A four-finger pinch opens an overview. A three-finger swipe in any direction switches between virtual desktops. Sliding four fingers down opens the existing windows. A four-finger swipe up activates the desktop grid.

You can now too Sync accent color with wallpaper. You can transfer the dominant color of your background image to all components with the accent color.

That floating plates Add a border around the panel to make it float and animate it to return to normal when a window is maximized.

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That Discover Apps page. has been revised. It contains links to the application’s documentation and website. It also tells you what system resources it has access to.

The full list of changes in KDE Plasma 5.25 can be found on the KDE website.

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Several solutions to get KDE Plasma 5.25:

- The easiest way to try it out is using a “live” image booted from a “USB” hard drive

- GNU/Linux distributions provide their own packages listed on the wiki page

- You can also Install Plasma 5 directly from the sourcewhich are available here.