KDE team announced the final release of plasma desktop 4.8 with new improvements. Major improvements are listed below:

• Faster and new display engine for Dolphin
• New Kate features and improvements
• Gwenview with functional and visual improvements
• Redesign of power management and integration with Activities
• KMail got many improvements and bug fixes
• Window switcher (with 6 new choices to choose from in case one don’t have desktop effects enabled)
• Performance improvements in Kwin
• KSecretService
• many more…

Check out the announcement page

Applications announcement page

Check out new improved plasma

And see it in action,

Will be soon writing about how to upgrade to 4.8 in openSUSE, keep in touch.

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