KDE Plasma edition and settings

The KDE Plasma environment is famous for having the richest settings. Manjaro KDE 23.0.0 comes with Plasma 5.27.5. Let’s take a look at it.

KDE is an extensive ecosystem – apart from the Plasma desktop, it provides an application-building framework, toolkits, and many native applications (one more reason why it is rich!). Hence, the documentation for the whole project also includes tutorials on its many applications. The primary location is the Tutorials section (https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials) of the KDE UserBase (https://userbase.kde.org/Welcome_to_KDE_UserBase). For the applications, check out https://userbase.kde.org/Applications.

To start, let’s take a look at the default notification and control icons on the main menu bar, as shown in Figure 3.17:

Figure 3.17 – KDE Plasma control icons on the panel

Again, as on Xfce, right-clicking on the icons provides more options and access...