Linux: The Ultimate Guide

New and Old Features
It brings many features that users have grown accustomed to since its 
4.x predecessors. Additional widgets are famous as the Token Activity 

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KDE Plasma Desktop Environment 
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Manager only. The Notes widget and the System Load viewer are re-
entered. Multi-location support has been added to the panel clock. 
Notifications have been significantly improved and fixes for many signifi-
cant and minor bugs.
The new feature allows you to switch between different widgets sharing 
the same purpose easily. Changing the app launcher as an example is very 
easy to find. Plasma panels have new switches for easy switching between 
different widgets with the same functionality. You can easily choose which 
app menu, clock, or task manager you want. The new clipboard widget 
provides a redesigned user interface over the respected Plasma clipboard 
manager, allowing the user to easily use the clipboard history and preview 
files currently on the clipboard. Another Plasma launcher, Kicker, has 
seen tremendous development, including better accessibility and integra-
tion with the package manager.
Wayland
The KWayland Library provides information on setting up Wayland at 
KInfoCenter and other users. More and more work is needed to run the 
Plasma operating system in Wayland.
Eligibility and Updates
Plasma 5.1 provides a desktop with a feature set that will suffice for most 
users. The development team focuses on the tools that make up the cen-
tral workflow. Although many known features in the Plasma 4. x series 
are already available in Plasma 5.1, not all of them are installed and made 
available in Plasma 5 at the moment. As with any software release of this 
size, bugs may make migration to Plasma 5 difficult for some users. The 
developers would like to hear about any problems you may encounter to 
be resolved and resolved. We have made a list of the issues we know and 
work on. Users can expect monthly bugfix updates. Releases that bring 
new features and bring back even older features will be made in early 
2015.
KDE Plasma 5.2 Release
January 27, 2015: KDE releases Plasmas 5.2. It added several new features 
and many bug fixes.
This Plasma release comes with new features to make your desktop 
even more complete:

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