KDE Plasma 5.9 Beta Released, Adds Global Menus & Better Wayland Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Plasma 5.9 Beta Released, Adds Global Menus & Better Wayland Support

The first beta release of the upcoming Plasma 5.9 is now available for testing...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Plasma-5.9-Beta

[shmerl]

Will it make it into Debian testing, or no because of the freeze?

[gufide]

Wow! The number of features in this release is huge! Kudos to the KDE team!

[nomadewolf]

Is it just me who thinks that if they made the Menu's buttons vertical instead of horizontal, it would be way better?

[ethana2]

Global menus are back in KDE? Looks like I'll have to give this a shot. I switched to Gnome 3 from unity for the polish and grid plugin but I miss having a real global menu every day.

[cen1]

If only KDE was available on a decent distro.. as a primary target, not an afterthought.

[gufide]

If only KDE was available on a decent distro.. as a primary target, not an afterthought.

KDE neon and KaOS are not decent?? They both target kde as main platform and are doing quite nice.

[cen1]

KDE neon and KaOS are not decent?? They both target kde as main platform and are doing quite nice.

Neon is supposed to be a showcase OS, not something I can put on a dev machine. it is also Ubuntu based (ugh). KaOS? First time heared about it which is not a good sign.

I guess OpenSUSE is the closest thing to what I'd consider decent KDE distro. Fedora would be perfect but they half bake the KDE spin.

[AsuMagic]

Call KDE bloated or anything you want, they're still leading in functionality and customization capabilities.

[CrystalGamma]

KDE neon and KaOS are not decent?? They both target kde as main platform and are doing quite nice.

When I tried Neon a few months back, it broke all over the place because of upgraded Qt but unupdated apps from Ubuntu repos. Especially if you dared install anything not installed by default.