KDE Plasma 5.24 To Add a GNOME-Style Overview And Will Prevent You From Uninstalling Plasma
44In This Video We Are Discussing About KDE Plasma is getting upgrades to improve the overview that resembles GNOME's shell and more usability improvements for non-technical users. I give you a preview of the new KDE Plasma Overview Effect. Here’s how it looks, and our opinion around it.
► Subscribe me here : https://bit.ly/3dI03ff
► Follow me on Tumblr : https://www.tumblr.com/blog/runboxing
► Follow me on Twitter : https://twitter.com/Runboxing1
► Follow me on Pinterest : https://www.pinterest.com/Runboxing1/
KDE Plasma 5.24 To Add a GNOME-Style Overview And Will Prevent You From Uninstalling Plasma
Click Here to Watch More Entertainment :
► Linux Videos : https://bit.ly/2Teia2U
► Buyer Guide Videos : https://bit.ly/35cUaTK
► Raspberry pi Videos : https://bit.ly/3jgfaxQ
► Review Videos : https://bit.ly/2HeIuYo
► Mozilla Videos : https://bit.ly/2IOi3JG
► Vpn Videos : https://bit.ly/3m3V23B
► Ipad Videos : https://bit.ly/34guh6d
► Mac Os Videos : https://bit.ly/37mPrBx
——Subscribe to stay up to date with the channel! ——
Make sure to subscribe to the channel & select the 🔔bell push notifications (click the 🔔BELL icon next to the subscribe button) to be notified immediately when I release a new video.
✅ BE SURE TO LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, AND TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS!!!
If you watched this video and scrolled to the bottom and are reading this I would love to hear from you.
If you have any questions give me a shout on social media & I'll try and answer all the questions you might have.
Thanks for watching and I’ll see you next time!
Some interesting changes are planned as of making this video for the KDE Plasma 5.24 release. One of the important update is the new way of looking at your Plasma Activities and Virtual Desktops. The changes are still in development, but we get a glimpse of it and here are the details.
Activities and Virtual Desktop in Plasma
In KDE Plasma, the activities and workspaces/virtual desktop are two different concepts. Often they feel similar, and many users use them together to make a productive working system.
Activities are a list of tasks, projects or widgets which you can define. And you can turn off/turn on, stop tracking those activities together when defined properly.
On the other hand, the Virtual desktops are separate workspaces which you can create. And switch between then using CTRL + F1, F2,…so on. They can have their separate open applications and Activities.
It’s a little confusing, but they are an excellent productivity booster if configured properly.
For example, say, you want to create three workspaces – one for gaming, one for watching movies and another for development. You can define separate activities and widgets for each of virtual desktops. For gaming, say, you might want a separate task bar or panel with only specific widgets. Or, for development, you might want to have a separate list of daemon or server to run when that activities activated.
In those scenarios, they are super effective when used together.
The New KDE Plasma Overview Screen
Today (as of Plasma 5.23), there is no such option to view the Virtual desktops, open windows and search together in KDE Plasma. There are widgets that can achieve this via activities. But they serve only one single purpose.
The new KWin effect or Overview screen is changing all of that.
As per the merge requests in GitLab, the new overview screen will be a full-screen view. It features the list of virtual desktop as thumbnails at the top, with an option to add more. At the middle section of the overview screen, you can see the list of open windows of the selected virtual desktop.
Between the list of virtual desktop and open windows, you have search bar. The search is expected to mimic the KRunner type search, which find files/shortcuts across your desktop. The Search happens on the fly. Search is done across your desktop – that is – applications, files, browser tabs, documents – everything. I am not sure whether it searches the file contents, thought which I need to test.
When you start typing in the search bar, the open windows expected to go away – although I am not sure of that.
The above features are yet to land in the unstable version as of writing this. So, wait until the BETA of this version of KDE Plasma to experience it.
Performance
I am little skeptical about the performance of overall Plasma Desktop after this implementation. Think about KRunner. It’s one of the best Linux desktop launcher – hands down. But in my personal opinion, KRunner takes around 3 to 4 seconds to launch in all types of hardware. Not sure about you, but I always felt that.
#Kde #Kdeplasma #Gnome #Linux #DesktopEnvironment
Todays Video - KDE Plasma 5.24 Adds An Overview Effect Inspired By GNOME's Activities Overview!