This week was full of major feature work and UI polishing, in addition to a lot of bug-fixing! I'm pretty sure everyone will find something to be excited about here:
  • @Dreyns@lemmy.ml
    46•6 months ago

    I recently tried plasma after xfce and damn ! That shit is slick af, ut’s so polished and satisfying to use ! Also the krita on kde experience is just incredible

    • @AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
      22•6 months ago

      Try KDE Connect if you’ve got an android phone, it’s pretty cool. I had to tweak the notification settings on my phone to get it to work the way I wanted, but ymmv, I’m just saying this because I’m usually happy with the KDE default settings (at least the Bazzite KDE default, I’m not sure how much the Bazzite team has changed their DEs).

      • @Dreyns@lemmy.ml
        9•6 months ago

        Yes kde connect is really cool, i like to put on some music before bead and this way i can skip and tweak the sound ! Very useful!

      • anguo
        6•6 months ago

        You can even install KDE connect on windows though, I imagine its pretty DE agnostic.

        • @dan@upvote.au
          8•5 months ago

          There’s quite a few KDE apps that work on Windows. I think they’re trying to position KDE as a provider of high-quality cross-platform open-source apps, rather than being limited to just Linux.

    • @1984@lemmy.today
      8•6 months ago

      It’s really stunning these days, super professional and clean, and really good themes actually too.

  • @1984@lemmy.today
    10•6 months ago

    I really like being able to disable the mute-sound button on the task icons, since I sometimes misclick on them during meetings… And once I had apparently done that and turned off the sound for slack, so my huddle didn’t have any sound. Took me like 15 mins to find the reason since I thought it had to do with pulseaudio…

    • r00ty
      7•6 months ago

      This one threw me off. I’d muted discord by mistake. Weirdly voice still works. I spent ages checking and double checking settings to see why I wasn’t getting notification sounds and the ptt sound. Dismissing any mute possibility because voice was working.

      When I found it was this…

    • @YaBoyMax@programming.devEnglish
      2•5 months ago

      IIRC it is possible to disable the indicators altogether, although that may or may not be an acceptable solution to you. For me it was worth the trade-off because of exactly this reason.

  • Name
    7•6 months ago

    Meanwhile “per monitor workspaces” have been requested almost 20 years ago and are a dealbreaker for many users…

    • PikaEnglish
      3•5 months ago

      honestly I would be for same monitor configurations myself

      having to do the same setup on all 3 is so annoying

    • @1984@lemmy.today
      17•6 months ago

      Yes, it never crashes anymore at all for me. Lots of work went into stability and bug fixes in plasma version 6.

      So please don’t try it on Debian stable or something. Use the latest version!

        • @thingsiplay@beehaw.org
          7•6 months ago

          I daily drive Plasma 6 Wayland on Archlinux based distro (EndeavourOS). Its the most stable KDE I have ever used. Before that I was using since Plasma 5 X11 on same distro and switched to Wayland when 6 became available. Unless you have some issues that are specific to your setup, it works surprisingly well. I even use an auto tiler addon and added a second monitor (ok the monitor is since today :D).

          All in all, its stable after the 2 big updates that focused on stability since 6 launched.

          • @GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
            1•6 months ago

            KDE always gets more stable after a lot of minor updater. But it can’t be completely stable and then big updates ruin everything anyways. KDE has a ridiculous update model for a serious project. There’s not enough testing.

        • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
          3•6 months ago

          Compared to 5.1x days, it’s much more stable on Arch Linux. I haven’t had issues since 6.2 I think (always on latest)