Get 100$ credit for your own Linux and gaming server: https://www.linode.com/linuxexperiment Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux:https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# ? SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to a weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5UAwBUum7CPN5buc-_N1Fw/join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or, you can donate whatever you want: https://paypal.me/thelinuxexp?locale.x=fr_FR ? MORE VIDEOS FROM ME Linux news in Shorts format: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtZp0mK9IBrpS2-jNzMZmoA Gaming on Linux: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaw_Lz7oifDb-PZCAcZ07kw I'm also on ODYSEE: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@TheLinuxExperiment:e ? FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE: Twitter : http://twitter.com/thelinuxEXP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nick_thelinuxexp/ Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick This video is distributed under the Creative Commons Share Alike license. #linux #kdeplasma 00:00 Intro 00:31 Sponsor: 100$ free credit for your Linux or gaming server 01:30 Plasma Bigscreen: Plasma comes for your TV 03:29 Desktop changes: a TON of smaller quality of life improvements 07:54 Settings: because Plasma needs MORE configuration options 11:10 Discover: minor changes to usability 12:55 Final thoughts 13:29 Sponsor: get a device that runs Linux perfectly 14:58 Support the channel Plasma Bigscreen is meant to bring KDE to your TV. It's designed to run on ARM based devices for now, there doesn't seem to be any builds for x86 devices yet. Bigscreen is controlled through your TV remote directly, with the CEC protocol, and is designed with a big launcher to let you run apps optimized for your TV. It also integrates mycroft, to control the interface with your voice, and uses mycroft skills to enrich the experience. All the little pop-ups from the plasmoids you embed in your panels, they're now resizeable, and they'll remember their size. The kickoff menu has a compact mode, and you can now click on a letter to get a selector that lets you jump to one letter specifically in the list. On horizontal panels, you can now also add a label to the applications menu. And if you like to try out alternative launchers, the plasmoid settings are now saved. The calendar widget can now also display dates from different calendars. The media controller widget will be able to display the title, artist, and album art of the currently playing track. Breeze inactive tabs are now a bit less dark when using dark mode, and keyboard shortcuts use a lighter color in context menus. Buttons and comboboxes now also won't use a gradient. When using the accent color from the wallpaper, KDE will now grab the most dominant color. In the overview, you can now search in it to filter windows by title. There's also a nice improvement to how Plasma handles wallpapers: first, you can preview them now by just clicking on them in the Wallpaper settings panel. Plasma also now handles wallpapers using different images, one for light mode, and one for dark mode, and you can now use animated images as wallpapers as well. News is the ability to rebind the mouse buttons from the system settings. On Wayland, you have the option to choose how things are scaled. You can let the compositor scale everything, or you can choose to let windows scale themselves. You also get a lot more options in the Night Color settings. First, you can now choose a manual location to enable the feature, and KDE will use this timezone to automatically change the color. And you can now set 2 different colors: one for the day, and one for the night. Discover will now let you change the frequency of update notifications. You can choose to have these notifications that remind you to update your system either daily, weekly, monthly or never. There's also a new message box when viewing a beta app whose version is lower than the stable version, to avoid users installing old betas when they think they're getting the latest and greatest. And when you're viewing a beta version of an app in Discover, you'll also get a message box to let you know this is the case. On app pages, you also get a share button. You'll also be able to see content ratings for apps that have them. You can also change the name you'll use to leave a review on an app, and Discover will now check to see if there's enough free space on disk before updating. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iensgc4QTIs

1 - Your options KDE Plasma can be tweaked in any number of ways. From the desktop layout with widgets, to the colors, the look and feel, and the themes, you can pretty much do anything you like to make your desktop behave how you want it. So what can you change ? Plasma lets you change the look of the desktop in one click with the "Look and feel" option. By default, you'll get a Breeze and Breeze dark option, but you can download new looks and apply them in one click from the settings. Yiu can then change any part of the desktop look individually: desktop theme, which will change the widgets look, cursor theme, for that mouse cursor, and splash screen, for that loading screen you'll barely see when starting your session. 2 - Desktop theme This is how your widgets will look. By default, you'll be using the breeze theme, but there are plenty of other options available. To get more, click on "get new themes", and you'll be able to preview and download any number of themes to change how your widgets look. My favorite is the Oxygen theme of old, with nice clean black background and white edges, but you can go crazy and install anything. 3 - Cursor theme This is the look of your mouse cursor, from the standard arrow to the animation when loading stuff, or the little hand to click links. There again, a "get new themes" button allows you to one-click install new mouse themes and apply them on the fly. There are even some left handed variants for you to download. Select the one you want, click apply, and you're good to go ! 4 - Splash screen This is the screen that pop up when you login into your session. Not much incentive to tweak this one, but there are plenty to choose from the "get new them" button 5 - Icons This one is available from the main settings menu. Once again, the "get new themes" is your friend, and will let you download icon themes very quickly. Some icons will allow you to select from multiple install files, it is generally a good practice to pick up the latest version available. 5 - Application style This is how your apps will look ! By default, you'll be using the Breeze theme, which is KDE's default. It does look a bit dated in my opinion, with buttons sporting drop shadows. You can configure Breeze here, with a lot of options, such as centering tabs, drawing toolbars separators or not, enabling animations, configuring scrollbar buttons, or tweaking menu transparency. TO get new themes, there are no "get new themes button" here. I found, one one of the viewer's advice, the plasma-oxygen-theme, which is excellent and what I was looking for all along ! You can install it from the terminal, with sudo apt install plasma-theme-oxygen There are a few others, but you'll have to look quite a bit to find them. Some examples include Virt ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-uPSt9-jgw