KDE Plasma 5.9 Desktop Launches with Global Menus, Better Wayland Support

Today, January 30, 2017, KDE had the great pleasure of announcing the release and general availability of the KDE Plasma 5.9 desktop environment for GNU/Linux operating systems.

The development cycle of KDE Plasma 5.9 took only a few months, but considering the fact that it's not a long-term supported (LTS) version like KDE Plasma 5.8, which is the recommended version right now for all users, we think that it's a pretty hefty update adding quite a bunch of new features and improves Wayland support.

Probably the most important one, which will make many KDE users upgrade from KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS or previous versions, is the return of Global Menus, a feature that was available in the KDE 4 series of the desktop environment. Only now, after numerous request from users, the KDE developers managed to implement Global Menus again in KDE Plasma 5.9.

"Global Menus have returned. KDE's pioneering feature to separate the menu bar from the application window allows for new use... (read more)

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