This is the part 2 of the Fedora 38 KDE Plasma Desktop review – Review of freshly installed Fedora 38 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 38:
KDE Plasma version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks version: 5.104.0, upgradable to 5.107.0
QT version: 5.15.8, upgradable to 5.15.10
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
Power Management
Bluetooth
Color Corrections
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 – Favorites Keep on reading!
After the tutorial on how to install Fedora 38 KDE Plasma Desktop this tutorial is mainly to see what to expect from a freshly installed Fedora 38 KDE Plasma Desktop – the look and feel of the new KDE GUI (version 5.27.4 of KDE Plasma). The Fedora 38 KDE Plasma Desktop is part of Fedora spins – https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/
Here the user can find how to Install Fedora 38 KDE Plasma Desktop (KDE GUI). Here it worth mentioning the included versions of KDE software for Fedora 36:
KDE Plasma version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks version: 5.104.0, upgradable to 5.107.0
QT version: 5.15.8, upgradable to 5.15.10
The idea of this article is just to see what to expect from Fedora 38 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 38 KDE Plasma. The second article contains KDE System Settings screenshots and it is Review of freshly installed Fedora 38 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
Install applications with dnfdragora
review of multiple installed GUI applications and games.
This article will show the simple steps of installing a modern Linux Distribution like Fedora 38 KDE Plasma with KDE for the user graphical interface. First, it is offered the basic steps for installing the Operating system and then there are some screenshots of the installed system and its look and feel of it. Here is another article available with more screenshots of the installed and working Fedora 38 KDE Plasma – Review of freshly installed Fedora 38 KDE Plasma Desktop (KDE GUI). If the user is interested in Gnome as a graphical interface there are two articles on how to install Fedora 37 Workstation Edition, which comes with GNOME – Install Fedora Workstation 38 (Gnome GUI) and Review of freshly installed Fedora 38 Workstation (Gnome GUI).
This is the simplest setup. One hard disk device in the system is installed, which is detected as sda and the entire disk will be used for the installation of Fedora 38 KDE Plasma. All disk information in sda disk device will be permanently deleted by the installation wizard!
The Fedora 38 KDE Plasma Desktop comes with
Xorg X server – 22.1.9 XWayland is used by default
It is a LIVE image so you can try it before installing it. The easiest way is just to download the image and burn it to a DVD disk or to flush a USB drive with the ISO. Just use the Linux command dd and a USB flash drive. It’s worth mentioning the dd command will destroy all data on the USB drive and overwrite it with the Fedora KDE Live ISO, so be sure to use a UBS Flash, which data is not important or with no data on it. The dd command uses the ISO as input and the output is the USB drive in Linux device form as /dev/sd?. For the following dd command, the USB drive is /dev/sdd
SCREENSHOT 1) Boot from the UEFI USB Drive Kingston device.
It is the same as the USB CD/DVD-ROM bootable removable drive. Choose the UEFI USB CD/DVD drive and boot the installation live drive. UEFI BIOS DVD-ROM boot Keep on reading!
This is the part 2 of the Fedora 37 KDE Plasma Desktop review – Review of freshly installed Fedora 37 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 37:
KDE Plasma version: 5.26.4
KDE Frameworks version: 5.100.0
QT version: 6.0.12
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
Power Management
Bluetooth
Color Corrections
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 – Favorites Keep on reading!
After the tutorial on how to install Fedora 37 KDE Plasma Desktop this tutorial is mainly to see what to expect from a freshly installed Fedora 37 KDE Plasma Desktop – the look and feel of the new KDE GUI (version 5.26.4 of KDE Plasma). The Fedora 37 KDE Plasma Desktop is part of Fedora spins – https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/
Here the user can find how to Install Fedora 37 KDE Plasma Desktop (KDE GUI). Here it worth mentioning the included versions of KDE software for Fedora 36:
KDE Plasma version: 5.26.2
KDE Frameworks version: 5.99.0, upgradable to 5.100.0
QT version: 5.15.6
The idea of this article is just to see what to expect from Fedora 37 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 200 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.
This article is the first part of reviewing the Fedora 36 KDE Plasma. The second article contains KDE System Settings screenshots and it is coming soon.
Some of the interesting screenshots
Logging
KDE Plasma Overview with Panel Toolbox
Fedora KDE main menu
Plasma Widgets
Activities
Install/Update applications with Discover
Install applications with dnfdragora
review of multiple installed GUI applications and games.
This article will show the simple steps of installing a modern Linux Distribution like Fedora 37 KDE Plasma with KDE for the user graphical interface. First, it is offered the basic steps for installing the Operating system and then there are some screenshots of the installed system and its look and feel of it. Here is another article available with more screenshots of the installed and working Fedora 37 KDE Plasma – Review of freshly installed Fedora 37 KDE Plasma Desktop (KDE GUI). If the user is interested in Gnome as a graphical interface there are two articles on how to install Fedora 37 Workstation Edition, which comes with GNOME and the look and feel of the GNOME – Install Fedora Workstation 37 (Gnome GUI) and Review of freshly installed Fedora 37 Workstation (Gnome GUI)
This is the simplest setup. One hard disk device in the system is installed, which is detected as sda and the entire disk will be used for the installation of Fedora 37 KDE Plasma. All disk information in sda disk device will be permanently deleted by the installation wizard!
The Fedora 37 KDE Plasma Desktop comes with
Xorg X server – 22.1.5 XWayland is used by default
It is a LIVE image so you can try it before installing it. The easiest way is just to download the image and burn it to a DVD disk and then follow the installation below:
SCREENSHOT 1) Boot from the UEFI DVD-ROM device.
It is the same as the USB bootable removable drive. Choose the UEFI USB drive and boot the installation live drive. UEFI BIOS DVD-ROM boot Keep on reading!
A big change for Plasma KDE happened two months ago – a “Merge kwayland-server into kwin“.
So after KDE Plasma 5.25, there is no kwayland-server any more (respectively no kwayland-server with version 5.25 and no package in Gentoo) and it may block a Gentoo update with the following error:
mydesktop root # emerge -va --verbose-conflicts --verbose --backtrack=300 $(qlist -IC|grep -i kde)
......
......
[ebuild U ] dev-util/kdevelop-php-22.04.2:5::gentoo [21.12.3:5::gentoo] USE="handbook -debug -test" 1,057 KiB
[ebuild U ] kde-apps/umbrello-22.04.2:5::gentoo [21.12.3:5::gentoo] USE="handbook php -debug -test" 5,544 KiB
[ebuild U ] kde-apps/kross-interpreters-22.04.2:5::gentoo [21.12.3:5::gentoo] USE="-debug" 149 KiB
[blocks B ] kde-plasma/kwayland-server ("kde-plasma/kwayland-server" is soft blocking kde-plasma/kwin-5.25.2)
Total: 340 packages (329 upgrades, 5 new, 6 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 1,001,699 KiB
Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.
(kde-plasma/kwayland-server-5.24.5-r1:5/5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
kde-plasma/kwayland-server
kde-plasma/kwayland-server:5::gentoo required by @selected
kde-plasma/kwayland-server required by @selected
(kde-plasma/kwin-5.25.2:5/5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
>=kde-plasma/kwin-5.25.2:5 required by (kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.25.2:5/5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="handbook ibus kaccounts scim semantic-desktop -debug -emoji -telemetry -test" ABI_X86="(64)"
>=kde-plasma/kwin-5.25.2:5[lock] required by (kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.25.2:5/5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="accessibility bluetooth browser-integration crash-handler crypt desktop-portal display-manager elogind gtk handbook kwallet legacy-systray networkmanager pulseaudio sddm smart wallpapers -colord -discover (-firewall) -grub -plymouth -sdk -systemd -thunderbolt" ABI_X86="(64)"
>=kde-plasma/kwin-5.25.2:5 required by (kde-plasma/libkworkspace-5.25.2:5/5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="-debug -test" ABI_X86="(64)"
>=kde-plasma/kwin-5.25.2:5 required by (kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.25.2:5/5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="calendar fontconfig geolocation handbook policykit semantic-desktop -appstream -debug -gps -screencast -telemetry -test" ABI_X86="(64)"
emerge could not continue with the upgrade to KDE Platform 5.25.2.
emerge error
kwayland-server is pulled by selected, but the last version of the package is from 5.24 release, which should immediately signal that there is something wrong with it, because the emerge command shows the latest KDE Plasma version to be 5.25 (with the exact version 5.25.2).
The solution is simple, just deselect it from the world slot to be sure it won’t be pulled again in the future. Remove the package manually if the error still persists, but only deselecting should work. Of course, it should not be selected in the command-line with emerge, neither. In general, such package won’t be available any more. Always keep eye on the pulled versions and the versions you are trying to install, most of the time the problem is obvious and from a single “wrong/bad” package, which may generate e great deal of erroneous and frightening dependencies output.
mydesktop root # emerge --deselect kwayland-server
>>> Removing kde-plasma/kwayland-server from "world" favorites file...
>>> Removing kde-plasma/kwayland-server:5::gentoo from "world" favorites file...
And now the emerge command is OK and no problem with the dependencies and blocks:
This is the part 2 of the Fedora 36 KDE Plasma Desktop review – Review of freshly installed Fedora 36 KDE Plasma Desktop (KDE GUI)
In part 2 the only the System Settings of KDE Plasma are 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 administrative account and whenever it is required the Plasma platform shows a authentication dialog to escalate privileges.
It worth mentioning the KDE Platform versions in Fedora 36:
KDE Plasma version: 5.24.3
KDE Frameworks version: 5.91.0
QT version: 5.15.3
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
Power Management
Bluetooth
Color Corrections
KDE Connect
Printers
Removable Storage
Thunderbolt
System Administration
About this System
software Update
System Settings may alse 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.
After the tutorial of how to install Fedora 36 KDE Plasma Desktop this tutorial is mainly to see what to expect from a freshly installed Fedora 36 KDE Plasma Desktop – the look and feel of the new KDE GUI (version 5.24.3 of KDE Plasma). The Fedora 36 KDE Plasma Desktop is part of Fedora spins – https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/
Here you can find how to Install Fedora 36 KDE Plasma Desktop (KDE GUI). Here it worth mentioning the included versions of KDE software for Fedora 36:
KDE Plasma version: 5.24.3
KDE Frameworks version: 5.91.0
QT version: 5.15.3
The idea of this article is just to see what to expect from Fedora 36 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 200 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.
This article is the first part of reviewing the Fedora 36 KDE Plasma. The second article contains KDE System Settings screenshots and it is coming soon.
Summary of the screenshots
Logging
KDE Plasma Overview with Panel Toolbox
Fedora KDE main menu
Plasma Widgets
Activities
Install/Update applications with Discover
Install applications with dnfdragora
review of multiple installed GUI applications and games.
Changing the default file association in modern KDE Plasma Desktop under any Linux Distribution is pretty easy. Here are couple of screenshots how easy is to change the default file association to open a PNG file with different application. Sometimes the default application to open a file may not be convenient for the user or just the Linux Distribution did not change it when installing a new application.
For example, in the sample workstation, the PNG file is meant to be open with the KDE KolourPaint, which is good for simple image manipulation, but not to view multiple images in a series.
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