KDE Plasma 5.7 Officially Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Plasma 5.7 Officially Released

KDE Plasma 5.7 is now officially out there...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Plasma-5.7

[wdb974]

Downloading the latest KDE Neon ISO file as I'm writing this comment. MUST. TEST. NAO.

[Azrael5]

how to switch from x11 to wayland compositor?

[Tori]

how to switch from x11 to wayland compositor?

If you want to test wayland, download the dedicated ISO: http://files.kde.org/neon/images/pla...20160630-2117/

[lumks]

how to switch from x11 to wayland compositor?

sudo pacman -S plasma-wayland-session
now logout and select "plasma-wayland" on your sddm login shell. done

[Serafean]

syncing portage From the beta experience, it seems to be very crash-free. Multiscreen seems to finally work as expected.

[geearf]

Is it finally time to switch to Wayland (and XWayland)?

[ResponseWriter]

Is it finally time to switch to Wayland (and XWayland)?

Best to wait for Frameworks 5.24. See https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/bl...in-plasma-5-7/

Edit: Frameworks 5.24 release is expected this coming Saturday. https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Frameworks

[Zoll]

Glad I'm running KDE Neon. Updating to 5.7.0 right now... Hopefully it solves my multi-screen woes.

[shmerl]

Hopefully it does. Those were extremely annoying: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358011