Review of freshly installed Fedora 29 KDE Plasma Desktop (KDE GUI)

SCREENSHOT 11) KDE main menu -> Favorites

And the rest main menus are “Applications”, “Computer”, “History”, “Leave”.

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KDE main menu

SCREENSHOT 12) Firefox Quantum – the version, which is included in the installation.

Update immediately whenever you install your system! the browser is super important to be the latest version.

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Firefox Quantum in Fedora 29 KDE Plasma Desktop

SCREENSHOT 13) KDE main menu is All Applications

The KDE main menu includes sub-menus “Administrations”, “Development”, “Games”, “Graphics”, “Internet”, “Multimedia”, “Office”, “Settings”, “System”, “Utilities” and additional sub-menu could appear here like “Science & Math”, “Wine”, “Lost & Founds” and many more.

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KDE All Applications

SCREENSHOT 14) Run a command or a search query

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Run a command

SCREENSHOT 15) History of executed programs or opened files

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KDE main menu -> History

SCREENSHOT 16) Leave menu

There 7 options here: Lock (lock the screen), Logout (End session of the current user), Switch user (log in with different user while the current is locked), Suspend (save the state to memory – switch off, this state consumes battery, but needs only a second to recover), Hibernate (save the state to the disk – switch off, no battery consumption, but needs 10-30 seconds depends on the disk you are using), Reboot (restart the computer), Shut down (power off the computer).

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KDE main menu -> Leave

SCREENSHOT 17) Search in the KDE main menu

Each type updates the search. “do” find the Dolphin file manager.

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Search in the KDE main menu

SCREENSHOT 18) Dolphin File Manager

Advanced file manager, Dolphin Version: 18.04.3

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Dolphin 18.04.3

SCREENSHOT 19) Dolphin Icons View Mode with image preview

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Dolphin Icons View Mode

SCREENSHOT 20) Dolphin Details View Mode with image preview

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Dolphin Details View Mode

One thought on “Review of freshly installed Fedora 29 KDE Plasma Desktop (KDE GUI)”

  1. Hey, thanks very much for posting these, very helpful – has shown me there’s plenty of reason to give the KDE spin a try and potentially shift away from the LXQt spin.

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