KaOS 2020.07 released, see screenshots
On 18th July 2020, the KaOS team has announced the release of KaOS 2020.07. This latest monthly stable snapshot of KaOS features Plasma 5.19, and other noteworthy improvements.
The Plasma 5.19 experience in KaOS 2020.07 release brings a consistent design and header for system tray applets and notifications. Other highlights in KaOS 2020.07 snapshot are as below.
- Improved Calamares installer, which now depends on QML files as much as possible. If any extension/change is required, it is as easy as modifying QML files. The welcome module and keyboard layout module in Calamares installer depend on QML file input.
- The team has Included a few more firmware and applications in KaOS repositories. Among these, sof-firmware helps to support newer sound cards, and new applications include Photoflare, the music player VVave (the successor of Babe), and Kdiff3.
- Updated packages including Linux 5.7.8 and Qt 5.15.0.
- Improved Midna theme used in KaOS
- A well-integrated KSplash screen, and SDDM theme.
For more updates, read through the official KaOS 2020.07 release announcement published in the project’s blog.
KaOS 2020.07 screenshots
01.0 Spash screen
01.1 KaOS Welcome
02 KaOS Welcome - About
03 KaOS Desktop
04 KaOS - About System
05 Application Menu
06 Sticky Note Widget
07 Calculator Widget
08 Notifications
09 Battery and brightness
10 Volume Widget
11 Dolphin
12 Konsole
13 Yakuake
14 Busy Desktop
15 Window Switching
16 Multitasking Overview
17 Falkon Browser
18 MPV video player
19 SMPlayer
20 SMTube
21 Gwenview
22 Office applications
23 Octopi package manager
24 System Settings
25 Midna Dark theme
26 Background Selection
27 Resource Usage - KSysGuard
28 Resource Usage - top
29 Resource Usage - htop
30 Shutdown confirmation
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