Waching daily May 30 2017

After a few months of intensive work, the KDE community is pleased to announce Plasma 5.10,

which brings many improvements and features to your desktop.

Due to the popular demand we changed to Folder View as the default desktop which allows users

to put whatever files or folders they want on their desktop.

Spring Loading in Folder View makes drag and drop of files powerful and quick.

When you searching Krunner it can now list non-installed

applications in the software center.

The icon size in the vertical Task Managers is now configurable to support more and more

popular vertical panel usage cases.

Speaking of the task manager its gained options for middle mouse click

so you can group and ungroup applications.

Places jump list actions are available to the file manager launchers, so Dolphin in

Task Manager gives you quick access to locations like your download and your pictures

The Audio Volume applet has a handy menu on each device which you can use to set a default

or switch the output to a different port.

Interactive notifications now support a context menu on previews giving you access to actions

such as open containing folder, copy and open with.

It is now possible to resize widgets on the desktop by dragging on their edges and moving

them with Alt+left-click, just like a regular window.

Plasma menu launchers gained a new category for often used documents and applications.

Lock screen has gained support for media controls, so you can switch between your favourite songs

without the need to unlock your desktop.

Discover software center has gained provisional backends for Flatpaks and Snap packages.

It is now possible to use the virtual keyboard on the login and lock screen.

If you enjoy using Plasma, please consider donating to KDE, so we can work together to

continue to make the best free software possible.