 KD Plasma 5.25 is going to be the biggest KD Plasma release I've ever seen, so I wanted to talk a bit about it and explain why it's such a big release. And it is so because it actually implements a lot of cool features that were asked for and some that actually didn't ask for but they look so cool. So the first one is to add an option to apply the accent color from the wallpaper. This is something that Windows or the new material you Android does and it looks pretty cool. What it does it takes your wallpaper, takes the dominant color of your wallpaper and uses that as the accent color. And the accent color is used as an example everywhere. But just to give an example like in folders, folders are blue by default because blue is the default accent color. If you change that, you will also change the folder's color. But then there is also this, which is this allows tinting themes with the accent color. So if you see these screenshots, you will see them. All of the windows are slightly colorful and that is based on the accent color. So if I switch to blue with this option enabled, the window will be slightly tinted blue and the same applies to other colors. And this plus this merge request means that you can now tint all of your windows slightly to the color that is predominant in your wallpaper. And I've seen actually people ask for this because Windows 11 does this to some extent with the Mika material, which takes the color from the wallpaper and uses it as a color in the UI. And now this is it. And it's actually better because this also applies to like the panel and the panel is also transparent with blur behind it. So it looks just gorgeous. Let's move on though. I just love this too. I love them, but let's move on. This is a global theme KCM redesign. KCM for those who don't know is the system settings section. In this case, the one about global themes. And the idea is that sorry about that. So the important thing here is now in the global theme, first of all, we do actually see which global themes also contain a desktop layout. You might ask, wait, what do you mean global themes contain desktop layout? And indeed, it's a feature that a few people actually know about. And this will probably help solve it. When you do a global theme, you can also ship at a default desktop layout with it. So the layout of the panels. So if you're doing like a unity kind of theme, you can also switch ship desktop layout that recalls unity so that when the user switches to it, you also see the new layout. And this wasn't very known about because before this patch, you did actually have when setting a new global theme to press this button down here, which is used desktop layout from theme, which probably nobody saw, like I didn't see it until somebody told me. Now it's actually much easier to see it. And when you actually go and try to apply a global theme, what you get is this dialogue, which is asking, okay, what of the plasma global theme you want to apply? Do you want to apply everything? Do you also want to apply the desktop layout? And if you want to, you select this and you click on proceed. And this is actually rather modular, modular, sorry, because if you do not select apply everything, you can actually select all of the parts of the global theme that you want to enable. As an example, if you want to switch from, I don't know, breeze to breeze dark, but without actually changing the colors from for some reason, you can do that just by disabling colors. Or if you want to change without changing the plasma style, for some reason, you just disable this, which means that now when you actually switch to a different global theme, you will be able to know what is going to change. And you will be able to select what you want to change in a very granular, granular way. This is something that we actually worked on with like mocaps and stuff since a lot of time ago. And it was actually implemented. And I think this is pretty important to say by the maintainer of the Faran OS distro. And that's super cool, because not only does he have a distro, which is Faran OS, but it also contributes upstreams the stuff that it does to that distro to KDP plasma. And that's such a nice thing to do. Then we have this one, which is a slightly smaller change, but I think it's still pretty important in the idea of making sure that everything looks right. And this is the k-win blend effect. And that allows for when you're switching color themes, you now actually have a nice animation of switching without, instead of the ugly, immediately changes color effect that we had before. And it's a small change, but I think it will help making plasma feel more refined. It says those small details that do matter. What isn't as small detail at all, though, are the gestures. I've already talked about the gestures, but they are a major part of KDP plasma 5.25. So let's go through them again quickly. Two things changed about gestures. First one, the gestures of the touch screen. So if you have a touch screen, you can actually enable gestures from the sides. And now they feel so much more native because they will actually follow your finger want one. And I've already talked about this very specifically, so go watch the video. What also changed are touch pad gestures. And what that means is that if you put your like three or four fingers on the touch pad, and you make them go round, the effects will also follow your fingers want one. And this was implemented for switching the virtual desktop using the desktop grid, but also seeing the desktop grid, sorry, switching virtual desktop using sliding desktop animation, opening up the desktop grid and also the new overview effect, which is a super cool effect. And it looks so nice. It just looks perfect. This is also what I'm talking about. It was very multiple developers working on this. And again, I've done a video called one to one gestures just to showcase how it works. So if you're interested, go watch that one up. Now, is this everything? No, there's actually more. But you know, not everything has been merged yet. And I've only showcased everything that was indeed merged. There's also other things that I think are cool, but I didn't want to reveal everything. So I will also do a full video explaining how every new feature works in depth later on, when actually the new KDE Plasma versions comes out. There is one thing that I left out then left out that I really want to talk about, which is floating panels. And that is the feature that was up to me because everything I've showcased up until now has been done by other developers. Floating panels is what I was supposed to do. And our floating panel is going to be in 5.25. And my answer is hopefully. I'm almost done with them. And from now on, I've got like a week to finish them. And I will put all of my all of my effort and free time in actually finishing them. If I don't upload videos, it's because of floating panels. Now we know. And by the way, if you want to help me do them, I do actually have a Patreon, but also a PayPal if you prefer one time donation. And keep in mind that I do all of this, like yes, the KDE Plasma stuff, but also the videos and everything else in my free time. I'm a student. So if you want to help me, that would be super useful. And I also need to talk until the animation is finished because otherwise that would be very unfair to the people whose name are showing right now. As I was saying on my right, your left, you can check out those links. And let me actually show you how the floating panel merge request is going. So in here, we've got merge requests by me. And, and there are two north working ones. The first one is the panel panel containment refactoring, which was super tough to do. But now it's done. And hopefully this will be reviewed. And hopefully this will land super soon. But of course there is also the important thing, which is floating panels here. And I've got like a picture of it. This one, this is not like super floating. It's just a bit of margin, but it's only for testing. It will be more. However, actually implementing this 100% has been like super hard. And I've actually done another video explaining why was it so hard very recently. So go check that video as well. And hopefully, hopefully I will be able to do everything within a week. And it will be done. And it will be ready to be in KD Plasma 5.25. I really hope so. Like all of my heart is hoping for this to be in the next Plasma release. I'll do my best.