Review of freshly installed Fedora 37 KDE Plasma Desktop (KDE GUI)

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SCREENSHOT 136) Kontact 5.21.1 Jornal.

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Kontact 5.21.1 Jornal tab

SCREENSHOT 137) KOrganizer 5.21.1 with a new event window.

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KOrganizer 5.21.1 new event

SCREENSHOT 138) LibreOffice Calc with a new spreadsheet.

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LibreOffice Calc 7.4.1.2 new spreadsheet

SCREENSHOT 139) LibreOffice Calc sample data with a simple chart.

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LibreOffice Calc 7.4.1.2 chart

SCREENSHOT 140) LibreOffice Writer with sample text.

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LibreOffice Writer 7.4.1.2

SCREENSHOT 141) Only two programs – Input Method Selector and System Settings.

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Applications Settings

SCREENSHOT 142) Input Method Selector

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Input Method Selector

SCREENSHOT 143) Quick Settings overview page.

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System Settings

SCREENSHOT 144) The System sub-menu includes Crashed Processes Viewer, Discover (Software Management), Dolphin (File Manager), Fedora Media Writer (Write Fedora images to portable device), Info Center, KDE Partition Editor, Konsole (a terminal application), KWalletManager (KDE Wallet Management Tool), Problem Reporting (View and report application crashes).

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Applications System

SCREENSHOT 145) And the last item of the System sub-menu – is System Monitor.

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Applications System scroll 2

SCREENSHOT 146) Crashed Processes Viewer – three crashes are recorded.

Click on one of them to get more details.

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Crashed Processes Viewer

SCREENSHOT 147) The state and all gathered data for the crashed application.

A core-dump file is also included.

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Crashed Processes Viewer details

SCREENSHOT 148) The Crashed Processes Viewer allows the user to run an interactive debugger to debug the crash.

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Crashed Processes Viewer runs the interactive debugger

SCREENSHOT 149) The Software Center application named Discover helps the user to find and install applications, tools, and games.

There are multiple sections – Accessibility, Accessories, Developer Tools, Education, Games, Graphics, Internet, Multimedia, Office, Science and Engineering, System Settings, Applications Addons, and Plasma Addons. There is an “Update” view where the user could receive detailed information for the currently available updates. More on https://apps.kde.org/discover/.

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Discover Software Center

SCREENSHOT 150) By clicking on an application more details are available such as brief description, reviews, category, size, license, and more.

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Discover application information

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