There are tons of improvements and new features to find in Plasma 5.13, which has me quite excited even with running GNOME Shell as my preferred desktop environment. There's been a lot of great progress in KDE Plasma 5.13 including:
- KDE System Settings has been redesigned.
- There's an upgraded interface for the KDE lock and log-in screens, making it look much more slick.
- Firefox/Chrome/Chromium browser integration to allow downloads to appear in the Plasma notification popups, the Media Controls Plasmoid will work with media content from the browser, support for sending links to a mobile device via KDE Connect, and other enhancements.
- Continued improvements with KWin for better Wayland support as well as improved desktop effects, support for high priority EGL contexts, and initial support for screencasts and desktop sharing.
- Many improvements to KDE Discover.
- A tech preview for the GTK global menu integration.
- The mouse system settings now supports libinput on X and Wayland.
More details and screenshots of the KDE Plasma 5.13 beta are available from KDE.org.
The official KDE Plasma 5.13.0 release is expected on 12 June.
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