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KDE Plasma 5.7 to Ship with Huge Wayland Improvements, New System Tray

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Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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KDE has announced the Beta of the forthcoming KDE Plasma 5.7 desktop environment is now available for public beta testing.

The first thing users will notice after upgrading to the KDE Plasma 5.7 desktop from a previous version, such as the recently released KDE Plasma 5.6.5, is the all-new, unified login screen (see the screenshot at the end of the article), offering users a more mature Breeze-based startup experience.

The Oxygen and Air Plasma themes received various enhancements as well, the Breeze icons now tint to match the highlight color scheme, the Jump List Actions feature introduced in KDE Plasma 5.6 has been extended to be accessible from KRunner, and the agenda view makes a comeback in the built-in calendar.

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