 Plasma 5.26 beta has been released and you might ask, well, firstly, what's that? So, you know, we're working on KD Plasma 5.26, it's the next release, it's going to be released in October, if I record correctly. And of course, a bit before, roughly one month before the release, we published a beta to make sure that everything is not there. Everything can try out the beta, report the bugs and make sure that everything works. But all big features in theory should be present within the beta at the time of publishing, so that you can actually have one month for bug reports, but also translations. So this is the beta. And secondly, why do we care? And fair enough, usually I only published videos for the final release and not the beta. But I did actually want to talk a bit about the beta itself, because we have some slightly different changes compared to the usual, namely big screen. And I've seen a lot of people ask, okay, how do I use big screen? I am not going to answer that, but I'm going to actually showcase some of the big screen apps, mostly because I haven't understood how to use big screen either, but that's a different story. Before we get into that, though, there is one important news that I want to talk about, which is Kidding Live Found. So basically, just today, they have launched this fundraiser, and they actually explained throughout what they're going to do with the money that you give, implementing nested timelines, more efficient workflows, performance boosts, and you can donate one time monthly and only so you have complete freedom and you know where your money is going. And Kidding Live is the editor that I use a lot daily, actually, and it's very important to me. So I actually decided that all the earnings that I have this week are going to go to the Kidding Live Found, and I would suggest you to go check it out too. Since it's not like in sponsor or anything, it's like just important to me that you know that there is this fundraiser. So go check it out. Please, please consider making a donation, because it's an open source project that's extremely important for KDE as a whole. So check it out. But anyway, we were talking about something else entirely. This is the beta announcement. And differently from the Plasma 26, sorry, 5.26 announcement, it's not really meant to illustrate all of the changes. And it is boring by design. And here you can see that it starts with Plasma big screen, which is something that betas usually don't do. So it's interesting. Mostly from this section, we have Aurora browser and Planck payer. These two are two new applications that are meant for Plasma big screen. What's that? It's a Plasma interface for your television. So doing apps for that means that they only should work with your remote. And on a laptop like this, this means that they only should work with the arrow keys and enter. So let's actually check out these two starting with our browser. This is our browser. Now, does it actually work just using arrow keys? We can actually switch between the most commonly used websites and going up, we have a search or type URL and we do have a big keyboard that we can very easily use just like this. Let's dive. Quart is an example. So this works. You also have the ability to speak to actually get your commander understood by voice. And this entry is powered by mycroft. Right now, I don't have that installed. And you also have options here at the top. Again, I'm doing all of this just using arrow keys. So it is rather impressive. In here, you've got the sidebar to quit and close the menu right now. Not much tabs like this. We can add a new one, I guess. I thought I'd seen that, but I don't see it right now. History, bookmarks like this, which are also the ones that you currently see. And then settings, which is interesting. This whole setting, again, is completely navigable through arrow keys only. So it's interesting to see how an application is made just using just meant for a remote. And all of the interface is actually navigable just using arrow keys and enter. And I think that actually takes a lot of design thinking on how to achieve that. So I just wanted to say good work on the development of this app. And I hope to see the plasma big screen number of apps to increase the next one. And by the way, I'm also going to talk about some stuff that's happening in Plasma Desktop too. So don't worry. There's also things that you can relate to if you're not using Plasma Desktop. But there's also two showcase blank very quickly, which is a video player. Again, it is completely designed to make sure that you can just use it through arrow keys and enter. You take this, but you can, oh no, okay, sorry. You can select here and bring the progress bar back and forward just like that. You can log stuff, full screen and exit application just like that. It works very nicely. So very interesting development. Then about Plasma Desktop, again, I'm going to keep a full throughout review of Plasma Desktop 5.26 when it's actually released. But there are a couple of changes that you might be interested to just to know that they are happening. As an example, you can now drag widgets to be bigger and smaller just by dragging from the corner. Now, some people might ask, didn't we have this already? Kinda, kinda kitty, kinda had that. And then it got removed. And now it's kinda back, but it's implemented in the correct way. Whereas before, it wasn't tried the correct way. So Windows, you know that Windows, you can resize them just by dragon dropping like this. But you can also do that by pressing Alt and using the right button, something that I'm unable to do with one hand. And that was the same for applets in the past. You could not change their size by just drag and dropping here, but you could use the Alt and two fingers or sorry, right button to resize them. Now that was kinda hacky and there was no user intuitive way to actually know that you could Alt and right click to resize them. So it is nice to see that now it's correctly implemented. You can just resize any in any way. Of course, not each one is going to be perfect. Like this, I think works well. This one, this, no, this one doesn't quite work. But I mean, it's interesting. You do have still minimum and maximum sizes, but it is an interesting development. It is something that was very asked for. So it is very nice to see that this is implemented. Again, there's more changes to go through and just one other that I want to quickly highlight. And then we're just going to end the video and come back to all of the stuff when it's actually released. But you can make kickoff more compact just like that. You're going to settings and the list is going to be more compact. Personally, I think that the non-compact view that you also see when you search now is nice enough, but you personally prefer smaller things. That's fine too. And you can use settings for that. So for today, that's everything. If you're interested in Plasma 5.26, it's coming very close. You can test out all of the new features in the beta and tell us whether they actually work or not. That that would be useful actually. And if you want to get involved in Caddy, that's a very good way to do so. But if you do not want, then it's just one month of waiting and then everybody will get all of these nice features. So let's stay in touch, I guess, and see you tomorrow with another video.