By Nate Drake
The good people of the KDE Foundation have just released the latest version of the Plasma desktop environment. Plasma 5 has been in active development since July 2014 and is maintained as a separate software project which follows its own release schedule. It has an excellent reputation for rich graphics, an intuitive and customizable interface, as well as excellent performance.
However, the Plasma team hasn’t relied only on its reputation in this latest version: clear effort has been made to enhance the desktop environment with more features and a smoother running experience.
Groovy graphics
Plasma 5 has already received online praise for running with OpenGL which makes use of your machine’s GPU. In theory this makes for better overall performance and less power consumption, but occasionally OpenGL drivers can fail due to updates/third-party apps. If this occurs, the latest version of Plasma 5 automatically switches to software rendering.
While Plasma 5 has always supported HiDPI, version 5.13 now displays a dialog whenever you connect an external monitor, making it much easier to place.
Blurring and desktop switching effects are now much slicker thanks to the new and improved KWin. The desktop panel in particular …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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