Plasma 5.17 beta on KDE Neon testing

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Published on September 20, 2019 4:32:45 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xOPbJppZs8

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Plasma 5.17 beta on KDE Neon testing
Release Announcements
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.16.90.php

System Settings: Thunderbolt, X11 Night Color and Overhauled Interfaces
Night Color settings are now available on X11 too
Thunderbolt device management
Reorganized Appearance settings, consistent sidebars and headers
New settings panel for managing and configuring Thunderbolt devices
The Night Color settings are now available on X11 too. It gets a modernized and redesigned user interface, and the feature can be manually invoked in the settings or with a keyboard shortcut.
Overhauled the user interface for the Displays, Energy, Activities, Boot Splash, Desktop Effects, Screen Locking, Screen Edges, Touch Screen, and Window Behavior settings pages and the SDDM advanced settings tab
Reorganized and renamed some settings pages in the Appearance section
Basic system information is now available through System Settings
Added accessibility feature to move your cursor with the keyboard when using Libinput
You can now apply a user's font, color scheme, icon theme, and other settings to the SDDM login screen to ensure visual continuity on single-user systems
New 'sleep for a few hours and then hibernate' feature
The Colors page now displays the color scheme's titlebar colors
It is now possible to assign a global keyboard shortcut to turn off the screen
Standardized appearance for list headers
The 'Automatically switch all running streams when a new output becomes available' feature now works properly

The Breeze GTK theme now respects your chosen color scheme
Active and inactive tabs in Google Chrome and Chromium now look visually distinct
Window borders are now turned off by default
Sidebars in settings windows now have a consistent modernized appearance