KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Released After A Lot Of Polishing, New Features

[FireBurn]

I wonder if I'll finally be able to auto-launch Plasma Wayland without it only covering the top 1/4 of my screen on my laptop, or my media centre machine

I tested it on a VM last week 5.17.5 and it launched on on a 1080x768 screen, but Plasma crashed when I tried closing Dolphin file manager

If this release becomes even remotely usable I'll start using it more often to squash remaining bugs

[tildearrow]

Stop spreading bullshit, they have always put efforts into making the difference between Qt and GTK programs as little as possible.

But too bad the compositor fixes didn't make it into 5.18. There is still no alternative to kwin-lowlatency.

Please wait, please wait, please wait. They changed a lot of things in 5.18 and there was a fair amount of refactoring around the client code in order to separate the X11 and Wayland codebases...

Plus I did not have time at all because I have been doing so many other things that I still need to test if KWin-lowlatency 5.18 even runs (I only got it to compile)...

So, please wait.

[M@GOid]

There's no reason they couldn't have used any of the previous Plasma LTS releases over the years. At least with the 16.04, 18.04, and 20.04 releases...but their timings didn't quite align either...

Kubuntu 18.04 is using KDE Plasma 5.12 LTS. Kubuntu 20.04 is already using Plasma 5.18 LTS. You are just spreading misinformation.

[M@GOid]

This is release is too late for Kubuntu 20.04. So we'll get the usual LTS mismatch...
Then again, I've switched to short term support Ubuntu's and the only thing that broke was the Android emulator, so maybe it'll be fine

They already are using the beta for KDE Plasma 5.18 on the 20.04 daily releases ISO, why they will not adopt it when is released?

Unfortunately this this type of disinformation is the result of the endemic Canonical hate on the Linux community. People love to spread bullshit against every one of their distros.

[skeevy420]

This is release is too late for Kubuntu 20.04. So we'll get the usual LTS mismatch...
Then again, I've switched to short term support Ubuntu's and the only thing that broke was the Android emulator, so maybe it'll be fine

There's no reason they couldn't have used any of the previous Plasma LTS releases over the years. At least with the 16.04, 18.04, and 20.04 releases...but their timings didn't quite align either...

[ktecho]

This is release is too late for Kubuntu 20.04. So we'll get the usual LTS mismatch...
Then again, I've switched to short term support Ubuntu's and the only thing that broke was the Android emulator, so maybe it'll be fine

And it's already available in KDE Backports anyway, so you can use it with no problems. Yuhuuu!!

[motang]

I am in love with Plasma Desktop. Recently starting using it full time after version 5.17 came out. Last time I used KDE in any length was 1.x back in 2000. Was forced to use GNOME after my profile got corrupted at my university, and the admin refused to fix it and told me to just use GNOME. This is my favorite desktop to use nowadays. Great job KDE team.

[AlphaCluster]

If by too late you mean just landed in Focal this morning?

[Syfer]

This is release is too late for Kubuntu 20.04. So we'll get the usual LTS mismatch...
Then again, I've switched to short term support Ubuntu's and the only thing that broke was the Android emulator, so maybe it'll be fine

[Charlie68]

Fantastic ! I look forward to the arrival in Tumbleweed, Plasma usually passes QA tests easily, so if all goes well in a few days it will come.
Since I switched to Plasma 5, about 2 years ago no major problems and Plasma has become my favorite DE.