Even with a bare-bones installation, Plasma lets you customize your desktop a lot. If you want more, there is always Plasma's vast ecosystem of widgets. Widgets add features and utilities to the Plasma desktop and today you can find out all the stuff you can do and what's new for widgets in Plasma 5.26.
Widgets are not the only thing to look forward to in Plasma 5.26: check out all the new stuff landing on the desktop designed to make using Plasma easier, more accessible and enjoyable, as well as the two new utilities for Plasma Big Screen, KDE's interface for smart TVs.
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There's a brand new Timer widget that ships with Plasma 5.26. Drop it onto your desktop, set the time for your boiled egg, coding session, or cup of tea and it will pop up a notification when it is done.
On regular desktop Plasma, things have also been moving hard and fast. Developers push to make Plasma excellent on the next generation display protocol has hit a new landmark and scaled XWayland apps now look beautiful, sharp and clear on Wayland.
Talking of light and dark, you have been able to adjust the warmth of the colors of your desktop for some time now, using warmer, reddish colors at night (better for your eyes) and having Plasma adjust the color automatically when the sun goes down. New in Plasma 5.26 is that you can now do that for the day time too.
On the whole, the Plasma 5.26 workplace gets more pleasant (and safer) to use with every new version. The "15-minute bugs" project (that aims to solve the bugs and paper-cuts a new user may encounter in the first 15 minutes of using Plasma) is paying off, and things like animating calendar components and the virtual desktop pager, or showing the title of a playing song in the panel makes it easier to follow what is going on.
Every day from December 18th 2020 until January 7th 2021, we selected the most beautiful wallpapers from each Progressbar operating system to display as the wiki background. Our wiki started with PB-DOS Shell, then went through from Progressbar 1 to 1X.
To make it work, you will need two separate files, one for the desktop and one for the lock screen (even if they are the same image they need separate files with different names). Then in WCD, in the "DeployDesktopImage" node browse to where the file is stored on your workstation (not the kiosk). I'm my case it was c:\files\desktopimage.jpg. In the "DesktopImageUrl," enter just the file name in the field (desktopimage.jpg). You can repeat this configuration for the lock screen image with a different file. 2ff7e9595c
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