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KDE's Plasma 5 Has Big Plans For 2015

Written by Michael Larabel in KDE on 5 November 2014 at 10:15 AM EST. 12 Comments

KDE's Sebastian Kügler has written a lengthy blog post about some of the items that developers will hopefully accomplish in 2015 for Plasma 5.

Key items still to be addressed by Plasma 5 going into next year include support for Wayland as an alternative to X11, finishing up support for HiDPI displays, and other improvements to increase the usability of the next-gen KDE desktop for more users.

Read more in Sebastian's blog post.

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