KDE Plasma 5.26 Desktop Environment Enters Public Beta Testing, Here’s What’s New
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KDE Plasma 5.26 Desktop Environment Enters Public Beta Testing, Here’s What’s New
Since this is a big update, you can imagine that KDE Plasma 5.26 is packed with lots of new features, starting with re-bindable mouse buttons for multi-button mice to allow you to assign buttons to keystrokes or keyboard shortcuts, full screen reader support for all Plasma widgets, as well as a new Compact mode for the Kickoff applications menu that lets you see more items.
However, the biggest new feature is Plasma Bigscreen, a user interface for your TV featuring the Aura Browser for navigating the Internet using just the remote control of your TV, as well as Plank Player as the default multimedia player for playing local files.
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KDE Plasma 5.26 Beta introduces a Bigscreen view for Linux apps on your TV - Liliputing
The latest release of the KDE Plasma user interface for Linux-based operating systems brings a number of improvements including easier previewing of desktop wallpapers, support for animated wallpapers, and a number of UI, navigation, and settings tweaks.
But the biggest change in KDE Plasma 5.26 Beta? There’s a new Plasma Bigscreen option designed for TVs and other large displays.
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Plasma 5.26 Beta - KDE Community
Today we are bringing you the preview version of KDE’s Plasma 5.26 release. Plasma 5.26 Beta is aimed at testers, developers, and bug-hunters. As well as our lightweight and feature rich Linux Desktop this release adds a Bigscreen version of Plasma for use on televisions.
To help KDE developers iron out bugs and solve issues, install Plasma 5.26 Beta and test run the features listed below. Please report bugs to our bug tracker.
The final version of Plasma 5.26 will become available for the general public on the 6th of October.
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KDE Plasma Comes to the Big Screen (Yes, Your TV)
If you’ve dreamed of being able to KDE Plasma on your TV you’ll want to tune in to the work going into KDE Plasma 5.26, which just hit beta.
Why? Because the next major update to the ‘cool’ desktop environment includes a new mode designed to be used on TVs, monitor, and other large display setups. It’s called Plasma Bigscreen and is pitched as a ‘privacy-respecting, open source and secure TV ecosystem’.
And we’re not talking the regular Plasma desktop stretched out to a squintfinity. No; Plasma Bigscreen is has a specially designed 10 foot UI, ensuring everything shown on screen is visible from afar (i.e. a couch) with ease, as well as being navigable using remote controls.
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KDE Makes Play for Living Room With Plasma 5.26 Beta
The beta version of the popular Linux desktop includes a new interface for TVs called Plasma Bigscreen. Will hardware makers support it?
The developers of KDE have announced a preview version of the KDE Plasma Linux desktop version 5.26. The preview version debuts a new interface for TVs dubbed "Bigscreen."
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Plasma 5.26 Beta Testing
Plasma 5.26 Beta was released yesterday
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.25.90/
And now we need your help testing it. Download KDE neon Testing edition and install it on a machine (do backups etc or use a spare computer if you can).