14 DAY TRIAL // Today we were expecting to see the release of the Beta milestone of the upcoming and highly anticipated KDE Plasma 5.10 desktop environment, but it looks like it has been delayed for after the weekend to let users concentrate on other things.
KDE Plasma 5.10 promises many new features and improvements over the KDE Plasma 5.9 release that probably many of you are using right now on your GNU/Linux distributions, but which reached end of life with the release of the KDE Plasma 5.9.5 maintenance update last month.
So now most of the hardcore KDE fans are expecting for KDE Plasma 5.10 to land, which will happen at the end of the month, but until then, there's a Beta that should arrive for public testing this coming Monday, on May 15, to give users an early taste of what they should expect from the major release of the popular desktop environment.
Snap and Flatpak support in Discover, Folder View is default desktop
It just happens that we got our hands on some of the features coming to the KDE Plasma 5.10 release, so we'd like to share them here with you. For starters, you should already know from our previous reports that Folder View will be the default desktop, featuring spring loading, a unified drop menu, and a revamped rename UI.
The second awesome feature of the KDE Plasma 5.10 desktop environment will be support for installing applications as Snaps or Flatpaks via the Plasma Discover graphical package manager, which now supports GNOME’s ODRS (Open Desktop Ratings Service) for reviews and comments on apps.
Apart from that, KDE Plasma 5.10 should make it possible to select Plymouth boot screen splashes via a new System Settings module, adds various new features to the Task Manager, and improves touchscreen support, as well as Wayland support. More on these new features will be revealed on Monday, so stay tuned!
