 Hello and welcome to the video where I showcase all of the new features of 5.25 and believe me there's quite a few. I'm actually super excited about this feature. I've talked about it a lot. Just one thing, I'm really sorry if there's any weird visual effects, everything going black in the video. I still haven't found out how to fix that. Anyway, the first big feature is that the overview which you might actually have seen before in other videos is actually coming officially enabled by default. The overview is very similar to the parachute effect or the GNOME overview and what it does it allows you to see all of the opens windows in this desktop but also to switch between your desktops just like this. It also allows you to actually search just like if it was K-Runner. So anything that you can do in K-Runner you can also do in the overview effect. You can create new desktops through this button. You can rename the desktop through this button and that's mostly it. You can also close the windows and such. So this is the overview effect. It's very new actually it's getting improved a lot so even if now it is enabled by default keep in mind that it will still be improved in the coming versions but it still looks pretty good as it is now. Secondly, very big change too. I can't actually show you this one because it's Wayland only and I'm unable to record on Wayland but you can now have one-to-one gestures on the touchpad. Again it's Wayland only but it works very nicely and there's a variety of things you can do. With three fingers going around you can actually switch between workspaces. With four fingers up you can access the desktop grid. Four fingers down you access the present windows effect which is this one and with a pinch of four fingers you can access the overview effect again and all of this is one-to-one which means that if you follow your fingers the effect will follow your fingers that makes it feel way more natural and it feels very good. This is something that GNOME ad already and Elementor US the latest latest version ad and now kdplasma has it too and it works really well. Right now you cannot customize it unluckily but that is a feature that will come for sure in the coming versions. One-to-one gestures are also used for touchscreen one-to-one gestures so if you take your finger and you have a touchscreen computer obviously and you start swiping from the right and this works on x11 too not just Wayland you can actually have an effect that follows your finger as you're swiping through it which makes it feel much more natural. It should also work with as you can see the desktop grid now I'm going up and down and the effect is actually following my finger. This is customizable so you can choose whatever effect to be used and this will improve significantly moving around if you have a touchscreen computer or a tablet just like I don't know the pint up as an example. Another very big change is about colors. I do have this enabled but we can make it even more visible so if we go to the colors tab we have three new very important options the first one obvious is actually selecting the accent color directly from the wallpaper in this case it's blue usually it chooses yellow for this wallpaper but whatever if we switch to a wallpaper as an example that is very green like this one a green effect accent color will be chosen for a purple wallpaper everything will go purple and so on I particularly like the purple of this wallpaper you can of course still manually choose what color you should apply and very important if you click on edit color scheme you do get some options to actually make that accent color that is taken from the wallpaper or that you selected even more useful that is you can first of all tint all of your windows with that color and to make you understand I'm just going to make this to the max which is probably something you shouldn't do but still to make you understand what happens this is what happens and if I switch between color scheme you can see that the color of everything changes and you can of course choose how much of the accent color the windows should be tinted with let's choose something higher but more humane okay so if I switch between colors now you can see that the windows is indeed tinted with the various colors and you can choose how much it should be tinted which means that this is uh together with front current wallpaper will make sure that the color of your windows will be tinted with the color of the background which is very similar to what windows does with mica except we actually do it better especially because we also tint the panel which is also transparent and has blur behind it which means that it just looks gorgeous I just love it and finally you can also decide to apply the accent color to the title bars and it looks like this so you can actually choose what your title bars should be like if you don't like the grayish you can actually make it a strong color just like this one and you have so much more color freedom now and this all of this combined with the front current wallpaper I think it really changes the experience a lot and if it was me I would make this the default customization but it's not up to me but still I'm just going to use it so I'm super happy to say this there's also another change for people using touch screens which is a pretty big one which is touch mode by default it's either never enabled or always enabled but if you have like a twin one it will actually enable if you detach the screen or you rotate the device but if your device for any reason don't support that you can manually enable it and what it will do it will make the UI bigger in general the context menus the title bar the panel you can see that the task manager as an example is now much bigger so it's much much easier to actually click on it the assistant tree elements are now also more distant between each other so everything is easier to click and if you're on a tablet that's like important by the way I haven't said that but since everything is thanks to the consistency goal of making sure that everything has the same underlying code and works in the same way the outlets perfectly follow your decision of what to use with the title bar for the apps so now it's green here as well so that actually works out of the box which is pretty nice if you prefer to have the larger task manager or system tree you can actually go into settings and you will have this option spacing between icons and you can actually select large if you're on touch mode large will be enforced but you can still select it manually if you prefer it another big change which is the only change in this version actually implemented by me so I'm super happy to show it is floating panels you now have this option in the panel settings which says floating panel and if you enable it enable it while the panel is floating you can actually customize how much the panel should be floating by changing values in the plasma theme that you're using and I mean it's a floating panel and it deflates when a window is maximized to make sure that it always looks correct it still has a few bugs on wayland I'm really sorry about that and I will try to fix them as soon as possible but still especially in x11 the experience feels very nice and I don't know use them because I did them so you have to use them another thing if you're into customization is we now have in edit mode this managed desktop and panels thing okay so what's this so let's say that as an example you connected a monitor and you created a panel in that monitor and you customized it that panel is actually going to live in that monitor which means that every time you attach the monitor again you'll go you're going to see the panel if however for any reason that monitor gets destroyed as an example this panel and desktop management actually shows you all of the monitors that have been connected to your computer at any time including of course the default screen that you have and you are able to drag and drop elements from one monitor to another like your panel or even your desktop containment which is the background and the widgets on top of it so you can just do this and swap between the contaminants that the monitors have now ignore the fact that my wallpaper is the wrong one that's unlikely a bug not in caty plasma but but in my particular config that I made because I messed up again black ledges weird wallpaper on me another feature that sounds less exciting that it actually is is that now switching within global themes sorry actually makes sense because before this if you switch to another global theme everything every customization that you had was rewritten with a global theme and it wasn't that easy to understand what the global theme was actually changing so I never actually changed global theme because I was always so scared of losing my customization now if you try to switch to another global theme you can actually choose what should be applied as an example you can choose to apply the desktop layout from that global theme because yes global themes do actually have a desktop layout so like panels and such but you can also click on this button and choose everything that should or should not be applied so as an example if I want to apply breeze but I actually want only to apply the cursor of breeze well probably I should just open cursor but I can just select cursors or I don't know the color send application style and that's it and this actually makes it much easier to say okay let's switch to another global theme because you're going to see what's going to happen and before this I was actually even as a developer super scared of using global themes I always had the fear of getting my customizations reverted to the defaults when I didn't want to then this cover has been redesigned I'm not sure I can actually show you this well surely not if this cover is not opening for me thank you discover I certainly need to reinstall my operating system but luckily I did an animation and with I I mean I and manual because manual did most of the work here so let me actually show you the animation that shows what's new wrong one okay so this is dolphin and we can see that we now have these three new cards which show links directly to the documentation website and potentially add-ons of the app that you want to download and at the bottom of the page you have a getting board section both to donate to the project and to report the bugs not only this but not showcasing this video you also have a flatback permissions so you are you're actually able to see the permissions that a flag flag requires and that should be it it feels like I forgot something but that should another couple of small things because it just doesn't and first of all when you get the password wrong on the login manager the login actually shakes similarly to what Macintosh does to show you that you got the password wrong and you know getting the password right is very important to actually log into your system so now the shaking actually transmits you that the k-win scripts sorry the k-win effects for present windows and desktop grid has actually been rewritten from scratch they're all completely new code written in KML instead of c++ and that makes it makes them so much easier to maintain and also it's much easier to actually connect them to the one-to-one resource systems so you won't see but now the code is much easier to maintain in theory the panel should have been rewritten through but it was reverted last minute because it had too many bugs that's on me I did the panel rewrite and it just didn't work out as I wanted another thing about panels is that you can now set a shortcut to the panel to actually focus the panel so when you click this combination of kiss the focus is going to the panel and by doing that you can actually select an applet inside of the panel so you can do keyboard based navigation even for the panel and that should be it so so many changes you've got the overview you've got one-to-one gestures you've got all the color stuff you've got the floating panel you've got the global theme changes honestly the biggest update to ktplasma I've seen it will probably have a lot of bugs when you have such a big update with so many things rewritten from scratch it's very natural to have some bugs but 5.26 will probably be released with a lot of bug fixes for everything that went wrong personally I did see some of some couple of bugs and some missing features but overall this is like a super nice release to use and I highly suggest you to try it out to end this video let me actually say thank you to all of the patrons that are currently supporting me even though I make less videos than usual because of exams and one thing that is very important to say is that you can also donate to kd there's on kd.org a link to the donation page this that you're going to see on the left is a donation link for me specifically which not only supports my work on kd which is just my work but also the other projects that I have such as this channel so you actually get a choice between donating to me specifically that I only work on certain things on kd plasma so it's very personal or kd plasma sorry kd as a whole that actually supports in things like organizing sprints and the kde avi helps people get to kd academy to give talks this kind of things hires some developers at this point so you can actually choose if you want to donate me something I'd be super happy I'm trying my best but if you also want to donate something to kd which has a hole is what did this update not me obviously then you can go to kd.org and click on the donate button and that was everything see you tomorrow with a new video except it's not going to be tomorrow because I'm because I have exams