It’s coming! The date for the big release of KDE’s new desktop environment has been set.
#Plasma6 should land on your computer in February 2024 🤞.
https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/06/september-plasma-6-update/
Bro666 ( @Bro666@lemmy.kde.social ) 15•10 months agoI think that KDE’s track record shows that devs do not remove stuff just because. Quite the contrary.
But sometimes stuff does get removed and often it is because or it is unmaintained (and been so for a while), or because it is built on some old technology that cannot be replicated in the new environment without a complete rewrite.
In both cases, the reason a feature is discontinued boils down to a lack of resources.
Fortunately, the solution is simple: do your part.
KDE is a porous, grassroots and welcoming community. Join us and become part of the effort to build one of the largest and most diverse collections of end user, publicly-owned, free software projects in existence.
I know, I know: “but I can’t code”, etc., etc. But there are many things you can do to help. You can help organise Akademy 2024, you can translate menus and system messages, you can write documentation, draw wallpapers, design icons, edit videos, support booth staff at events, triage and report bugs, or just donate and contribute to financially supporting devs who still have to hold down pesky day jobs that get in the way of coding for KDE… The list goes on and on.
The point is, regardless of your level of technical knowledge, the more resources you free up elsewhere, the more time the people who do know how to code will have to maintain and translate software and features in the new Plasma 6 environment.
David Sugar ( @gnutelephony@floss.social ) 5•10 months ago@kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social In a sense it feels long overdue, but it also does take time and feels very new…
My question is what happens to Qt5? I feel like it’s because of #KDE it continues to be maintained at all, and yet many other projects still utterly depend on Qt5, even believe they don’t need to migrate to Qt6 or otherwise refuse to. I believe HelloSystems is in this category.
👁️👄👁️ ( @mojo@lemm.ee ) 4•10 months agoI really couldn’t get into KDE before. I’ll give it another go when 6 comes out.
skookumasfrig ( @skookumasfrig@sopuli.xyz ) 3•10 months agoThat’s how I felt with KDE 1 and 2. I left it alone for a while and recently came back to KDE 5 after getting a steam deck and now I’ve switched my desktop to it.
William Andrew Conna ( @williamconna@mastodon.social ) 4•10 months ago@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social will Kubuntu 24.04 also use KDE Plasma 6? 🤔
2¢ ( @Qbitzerre@unbound.social ) 3•10 months ago@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social wake me up when you restore the ability to place multiple application tabs in a single window. Many have been up in arms about the inability to use different backgrounds on different desktops for years. But the loss of the ability to combine applications in tabbed windows is a more serious regression in my opinion.
Bro666 ( @Bro666@lemmy.kde.social ) 20•10 months agoRude, but a teachable moment:
This is our standard answer to people who need reminding that KDE is a community powered by volunteers and that each contributor works for free to bring you the best software they can make with the means they have.
Sina ( @Sina@beehaw.org ) 3•10 months agoMaybe I’m very dumb, but I don’t even see the utlity right now, or how that could even work…
2¢ ( @Qbitzerre@unbound.social ) 1•10 months ago@Sina it did work. I used it. It’s apparently not for you. Some people like to organize their displays by grouping particular windows together. Tabs are used for this in many applications such as browsers (try it). KDE extended this capability across applications but the feature disappeared with one of their downgrades about the time they removed the ability to set different backgrounds on desktops.
fckgwrhqq2yxrkt ( @fckgwrhqq2yxrkt@beehaw.org ) 6•10 months agoSo I assume you are working on the needed code to reimplement that? Let me know if you need any help with it.
Bro666 ( @Bro666@lemmy.kde.social ) 2•10 months agoThat’s the spirit!
2¢ ( @Qbitzerre@unbound.social ) 1•10 months ago@fckgwrhqq2yxrkt why “reimplement” it, Sina? I suspect whomever removed it is better qualified to fix what they broke - being already familiar with the code. Until then I’ll be fine without it.
Kunal Agrawal ( @kunalagrawal@mastodon.social ) 3•10 months ago@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Make it Feb 6th to coincide with Plasma 6.
stark ( @stark@qlemmy.com ) 3•10 months agoAnd here I am looking into swapping KDE for a window manager.
Janne Oksanen ( @janneoksanen@mastodon.social ) 3•10 months ago@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I have a good feeling about this. I think 2024 is going to be the year of the Linux desktop.
Sina ( @Sina@beehaw.org ) 4•10 months agoI used to think it might 2026 (the first year after Windows 10’s demise), but seeing how increasingly shit Windows 10 is update after update, (weren’t they only supposed to be security patches now?) they might just force an unprecedented number of ppl to switch.
Craftkorb ( @Craftkorb@feddit.de ) 2•10 months agoAwesome stuff everyone, cheers to KDE ❤️
Ticktok ( @ticktok@fosstodon.org ) 2•10 months ago@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social excited! Always loved KDE, but finally made the switch to an AMD GPU this month and finally getting to enjoy kde with Wayland and it so good!(once I disabled freesync on my monitors so my computer would stop crashing)
Jiří Štefka ( @jiristefka@mastodon.social ) 2•10 months ago@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I’ll finally be able to switch to Wayland!
I really miss my keyboard shortcuts… (I use multiple keyboard layouts and the shortcuts aren’t consistent across them - it’s fixed in Qt6)
bout10bucks 🐧 ( @bout10bucks@mast.linuxgamecast.com ) 1•10 months ago@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social That’s pretty exciting, but if it needs to bake longer, let us know 😀
David Sugar ( @gnutelephony@floss.social ) 1•10 months ago@kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social what I do like from what I have seen of this is the idea, which I love in Xfce, of trying to produce the best possible version of KDE at the time, rather than wasting real user’s time by completely re-imagining and re-inventing what a desktop even means to stroke private egos. That is the difference between greater value construction over time, and it’s continual destruction.
David Zaslavsky ( @diazona@techhub.social ) 1•10 months ago@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Hooray! Very excited for this