KDE Developers Are Busy Polishing Plasma 5.19

The Plasma 5.19 beta was released this week but that's not the finish line yet and KDE developers have remained very busy polishing it up for ensuring this open-source desktop has a stellar release coming up.

KDE developer Nate Graham has published his usual weekly recap of the KDE development highlights. Among the accomplishments in recent days include:

- Konsole tabs can now be assigned colors.

- Redesigned system monitor widgets.

- The "tools" button on various keyboards will now launch the System Settings area.

- Support for GoCryptFS as an encryption back-end for Plasma Vaults.

- KMail and Kontact apps has restored Google services support.

- Many other fixes and improvements.

More details on the other KDE changes this week via Nate's blog.