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Lumina Desktop 1.3 is out, we show you a Plasma 5 on FreeBSD tutorial, explore randomness, and more.

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Lumina Desktop v1.3 released

• Notable Changes:
• New Utility: lumina-mediaplayer. Lumina Media Player is a graphic interface for the Qt QMediaPlayer Class, with Pandora internet radio streaming integration. Lumina Media Player supports many audio formats, including .ogg, .mp3, .mp4, .flac, and .wmv. It is also possible to increase the number of playable formats by installing gstreamer-plugins. This utility is found in the Applications → Utilities section, or opened by typing lumina-mediaplayer in a command line.
  • New Utility: lumina-xdg-entry. This is another simple utility designed to help users create .desktop entries and shortcuts. Find it in the Utilities application category, or open it by typing lumina-xdg-entry in a command line.
• Lumina Desktop:
  • Desktop folders are integrated, and can now be manipulated directly from the desktop.
  • Added the automatic settings migration of a desktop monitor (single monitor only, for now).
  • Numerous speed and performance improvements with how icons load and the system interacts with the desktop.
• Lumina-FM:
  • Now fully integrated with lumina-archiver.
  • A “System directory” tree pane is available. Options to enable/disable it are being added later, as it is on by default.
  • Numerous speed improvements with caching and loading icons.
• Lumina Texteditor:
  • There is a new json manifest file format for syntax highlighting support. Users can open this file, customize their highlighting options, and immediately see their changes without rebuilding the utility.
  • The text editor now supports more than 10 different file formats.
  • Added options for file-wide preferences in syntax files. Options include: word wrap, character per line limits, excess whitespace highlighting, font style restrictions, and tab-width settings.
  • LTE supports tabs with detach, drag’n’drop, and location customization with the View menu option.
  • Add checkable menu option to show the “unsaved changes” dialogue box on close.
• Lumina Screenshot:
  • Adjustments to the lumina-screenshot interface.
  • Add an adjustable warning to lumina-screenshot when closing with an unsaved image.
  • Add functionality to select a specific area of the screen for screenshots.
• Lumina Archiver:
  • Functionality improvements.
  • Bug fixes.
  • Interface changes.
• General Improvements:
  • Permission checks for settings files (all utilities). When launched with sudo, all tools use or create a root-permissioned copy of the user’s settings file. This prevents a settings file being locked by root.
  • UI text reworks to help re-unify style.
  • Add hooks to update the desktop with icons for the /media directory when a system uses USB automounting functionality.
  • Fix Fluxbox bug with windows workspace assignments.
  • Work on new utility lumina-notify (not fully functional yet).
  • Fix panel reporting error crashing lumina-config.
  • Bug fix for dbus-send calls for Gentoo.
  • Clean up automatic DPI scaling support.
  • Bug fix for the panel