KDE Plasma 5.22 Released

KDE Plasma 5.22 is now available, bringing "hugely improved" Wayland support, better performance for gaming, adaptive panel transparency for the panel and widgets, and more. Phoronix reports: There is now support for variable rate refresh (VRR) / Adaptive-Sync on Wayland, vertical/horizontal maximization now working with KWin Wayland, global menu applet support under Wayland, support for activities, and a lot of other general improvements and fixes so the overall Wayland support is much more polished and nearly at par to the X.Org Server support.

The performance for gaming with KDE Plasma on Wayland should also be better with now having direct scan-out support for full-screen windows. Rounding out the graphics fun with this release is also GPU hot-plugging support on Wayland for KWin, such as if using an external GPU or USB display adapter. KDE Plasma 5.22 also delivers on adaptive panel transparency for the panel and widgets, desktop notification improvements, Plasma System Monitor has replaced KSysGuard as the default system monitoring application, and a variety of other improvements. You can view the full changelog for Plasma 5.22 here.

finally

[GoTeam]

I've been waiting on KDE Plasma 5.22 for years...

Re:

[Ostracus]

I'm waiting for the Fusion version to come out. Everyone says we'll achieve it soon.

Re: finally

[Anonymouse Cowtard]

Since I'm on LTS it will be years before I get it. So congratulations.

DPI support

[lessSockMorePuppet]

Does it support different DPI settings per monitor? And not do really crazy weird shit when you turn a screen on or off?

Sell a former GNOME/current MATE user on why I should switch. (For real. I used to use KDE3 and went to GNOME2 for..less eyecandy and more stability.)

But that DPI thing in MATE drives me up a wall.

Re: DPI support

[samwichse]

Xrandr works for per monitor scaling. And apparently Wayland and plasma 5.17+ are supposed to support it.

Haven't tried, myself.

different backgrounds on different virtual desktop

[aRTeeNLCH]

Have they finally managed to bring back one of the top selling (yeah, it got my wife to show off her computer to her friends, who were terribly impressed) features of having different background images on different virtual desktops? It once got decided that activities were more important, but they never could replace virtual desktops completely. I don't know if some Windows programmers came to the light side or what, but I always felt they hadn't been properly introduced to virtual desktops and just had to make something different. Whilst breaking something existing.

Re:different backgrounds on different virtual desk

[Frank Burly]

Activities and Akonadi are KDE's two big mistakes that they seem committed to. But the rest of it is great and "Thank You" to any contributor who may read this.

Re:

[StormReaver]

Activities are a memory sucking swamp of uselessness. Akonadi is a data-destroying, unreliable (except to destroy data), monstrosity that needs to die ASAP. Dolphin is a useless bastardization of the previously awesome Konqueror file manager.

KDE has lots of really cool features, but nothing of value will be lost by the above three "features" disappearing to a deserted island that everyone has forgotten exists.

Re:

[Daina.0]

As long as Akonadi is part of KDE I will NEVER use it. I spent too much time trying to find out why my CPU was overwhelmed when I was doing nothing and then hours killing Akonadi and its associated hogs again and again. I loved KDE until 4.0 came out as a bloated useless mess. I'm still angry about the loss of my data. >:^(

KDE my fav

[omfglearntoplay]

Just here to say KDE has always been my favorite. Glad to see the new.

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