{"id":9065,"date":"2021-02-18T08:58:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T08:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=9065"},"modified":"2021-02-18T08:58:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T08:58:33","slug":"kde-plasma-5-21-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=9065","title":{"rendered":"KDE Plasma 5.21 preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Ever since I first starting using Linux seriously 16 years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/kde.org\/\">KDE<\/a> has always been my preferred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/jargon\/d\/desktop-environment.htm\">desktop environment<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I&#8217;ve dabbled with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnome.org\/\">GNOME<\/a> and other desktops, but always come back to KDE for usability, customisability and good looks.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Now known as Plasma, the KDE desktop will soon be reaching the release of its 5.21 version.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Below is a sneak preview of what can be expected when the new version is released, together with a tribute at the end to Gustavo Carneiro. a KDE developer who unfortunately passed away from Covid-19 in January and whose work concentrated on KDE&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/kde.org\/applications\/system\/konsole\">Konsole<\/a> terminal emulator. <\/p>\r\n<p>This 5.21 release of Plasma is dedicated to Gustavo&#8217;s memory.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_96534\"  width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ahEWG4JCA1w?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Plasma 5.21: A Very Pretty Thing\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I first starting using Linux seriously 16 years ago, KDE has always been my preferred desktop environment. I&#8217;ve dabbled with GNOME and other desktops, but always come back to KDE for usability, customisability and good looks. Now known as Plasma, the KDE desktop will soon be reaching the release of its 5.21 version. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9],"tags":[19,39,12],"class_list":["post-9065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-open-source-software","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-linux-and-os-matters","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9065"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9099,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions\/9099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}