Review of freshly installed Fedora 39 KDE Plasma Desktop part 2 – System Settings

This is the part 2 of the Fedora 39 KDE Plasma Desktop review – Review of freshly installed Fedora 39 KDE Plasma Desktop (KDE GUI)
In part 2 only the System Settings of KDE Plasma is presented – the central place to configure and tweak the KDE Plasma – the graphical desktop environment with customizable layouts and panels, virtual desktops and sophisticated widgets. Some of the settings require an administrative account and whenever it is necessary the Plasma platform shows an authentication dialog to escalate privileges.
It worth mentioning the KDE Platform versions in Fedora 39:

  • KDE Plasma version: 5.27.8, upgradable to 5.27.10
  • KDE Frameworks version: 5.110.0, upgradable to 5.113.0
  • QT version: 5.15.10, upgradable to 5.15.12

The System Settings reflects the above versions and the functionality they incorporate.
The main components are:

  • Appearance
  • Workspace
    • Workspace Behavior
    • Windows Management
    • Shortcuts
    • Startup and Shutdown
    • Search
  • Personalization
    • Notifications
    • Users
    • Reginal Settings
    • Accessibility
    • Applications
    • KDE Wallet
    • Online Accounts
    • User Feedback
  • Network
    • Connections
    • Settings
  • Hardware
    • Input Devices
    • Display and Monitor
    • Audio
    • Multimedia
    • Power Management
    • Bluetooth
    • Color Management
    • KDE Connect
    • Printers
    • Removable Storage
    • Thunderbolt
  • System Administration
    • About this System
    • Software Update

System Settings may also be started from the console with

myuser@mydesktop ~ $ systemsettings

Here are the System Setting screenshots:

SCREENSHOT 1) Click on System Settings to launch the “System Settings” program.

View and edit KDE and some Linux system settings.

main menu
Main Menu – Favorites

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Review of freshly installed Fedora 39 KDE Plasma Desktop (KDE GUI)

After the tutorial on how to install Fedora 39 KDE Plasma Desktop this tutorial is mainly to see what to expect from a freshly installed Fedora 39 KDE Plasma Desktop – the look and feel of the new KDE GUI (version 5.27.4 of KDE Plasma). The Fedora 39 KDE Plasma Desktop is part of Fedora spins – https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/
Here the user can find how to Install Fedora 39 KDE Plasma Desktop (KDE GUI). Here it worth mentioning the included versions of KDE software for Fedora 39:

  • KDE Plasma version: 5.27.8, upgradable to 5.27.10
  • KDE Frameworks version: 5.110.0, upgradable to 5.113.0
  • QT version: 5.15.10, upgradable to 5.15.12

The idea of this article is just to see what to expect from Fedora 39 KDE Plasma – the look and feel of the GUI, the default installed programs and their look and how to do some basic steps with them, it is included also screenshots of the KDE settings program. Here you’ll find more than 250 screenshots and not so many texts we do not want to turn this review of many texts and version information and 3 meaningless screenshots, which you could not see anything for the user interface because these days it is the primary goal of a Desktop system. You can expect more of this kind of review in the future. The big missing is the Kate Advanced Text Editor, which is not installed by default in this release.
This article is the first part of reviewing the Fedora 39 KDE Plasma. The second article contains KDE System Settings screenshots and it is Review of freshly installed Fedora 39 KDE Plasma Desktop part 2 – System Settings.

Some of the interesting screenshots

  • Logging
  • KDE Plasma Overview with Panel Toolbox
  • Fedora KDE main menu
  • Plasma Widgets
  • Activities
  • Install/Update applications with Discover
  • review of multiple installed GUI applications and games.
  • Dolphin – the KDE File Manager
  • KWrite – Text Editor
  • Kontact – manage email, calendar, contacts and other personal data with one application. It includes KMail, KAddressBook, KOrganizer, Akregator, and more.
  • KDE Partition Manager – manage disks and partitions.
  • Konsole – KDE’s Terminal Emulator
  • System Monitor – monitor the system.
  • KFind – Find Files/Folders – advanced files and folder search.
  • KGpg – a simple interface for GnuPG. A powerful encryption utility.
  • Klipper – clipboard manager for the KDE interface.
  • And more!

Fedora 39 KDE Plasma screenshots

SCREENSHOT 1) Fedora (6.5.6-300.fc39.x86_64) 39 (KDE Plasma)

main menu
grub entry boot

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