How about proper multi-display support (including mixing HiDPI and low-res displays)? Every time I connect my FHD laptop to my UHD monitor the windows on the desktop move around completely randomly. It is better than before, because they used to move outside the visible area, they fixed at least that.
But hey, at least there is an Emoji Selector now (???).
Been using KDE for a few years now and I've always been impressed with the experience. I'm really looking forward to this update, for me night mode is critical. (I understand there were third party solutions but I often found them to be buggy or otherwise difficult to use). Here's hoping my distro adds the update to its repositories soon.
Maybe something is wrong with me, but it irks me that there are 40 seconds of meaningless video before they show stuff in that video. I ended up skipping the video and skimming through the poorly formatted article.
My first impression is that it looks good. Lots of useful features. But I can imagine that if I had sent it to a bunch of other people who have no interest in KDE they would have closed the page again.
That said I have a question:
It seems that Plasma has tiling WM features. How useful are they?
One thing about tiling WM is that typical it's only part of a package. Another part is that people are typically looking at a lightweight hotkey driven workflow and the ability to script where and how windows appear with occasional non tiling things to fit applications that don't work well for tiling systems.
The other question I have is that one of the reasons why I go for these "lightweight" setups. Althouh xfce-settings daemons + tiling wm is what I do is also because of power usage. How is KDE in terms of power usage?
And yes, I realize that firefox, blink based browser, slack are the biggest power drains.
Just started using KDE neon in a vm on my iMac for office work and it's really really good and productive. Kudos to the KDE team.
I may be in the minority here, but I really like the Emoji Selector. I'm in the terminal most of the time, and anything that has quick keyboard shortcuts but adds character makes me happy.
Looks like a nice update! I also like the fact that they use a PeerTube embedded video as their official video announcement https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/cda402b5-2bcb-4c...
Every time there is a new KDE announcement/release I give it another try. I don't like it. I miss the KDE 3.5 days. The DE seemed more cohesive then and worked very well. Ever since they went down the plasma route it looks like they focused on making it look pretty. The whitepapers and announcements made it sound like there was hefty backend improvements but each update was buggy for me.
I still use KDE apps, I find that a lot of them are perfect; but the DE has been limping along since the 4.0 re-write.
Rant: Why the fuck would I ever use a DE "app-store-thing"?! I use my OS's tools for installing/upgrading/uninstalling programs. Stop trying to help, you are making it worse.
Side note: I really liked the music in that video.
I don't think this is a good idea:
> There are quite a few new things in Plasma 5.18's System Settings. First and foremost is the optional User Feedback settings. These are disabled by default to protect your privacy.
> That said, if you do decide to share information about your installation with us, none of the options allows the system to send any kind of personal information. In fact, the Feedback settings slider lets you decide how much you want to share with KDE developers. KDE developers can later use this information to improve Plasma further and better adapt it to your needs.
I'm a Debian user that uses KDE (most of the timel, in many cases people insist on suggesting that the standard KDE experience in Debian is subpar. I'm am fairly happy with it but is anyone aware of a solution to enhance that experience to something more close to what the KDE community considers ideal?
No news from the wayland front?
Still waiting for subsurfaces clipping bug fix on Wayland.
I am a huge fan of kde and the only feature I really want is better tiling and snapping
I use XFCE. Are there any good reasons to switch to KDE? Honest question.
I just recently switched to kubuntu (KDE) back from fedora (Gnome 3).
On one hand I do like that the desktop does not try to re-define basic muscle memory things, like changing the shortcut if you try to switch between two windows of the same application. (Seriously Gnome, WTF?).
On the other hand it crashed left and right after install (less so now that it settled down a bit) and there are a million QA type problems. I have a 4K 27" screen and everything is tiny by default, so I put scaling to 1.3 and Kate + Terminal are full of lines. The computation of the window update is broken.. I browse the internet and the ticket is open - since two years.
Then there is Wayland, which I got used to on Gnome and think is a great achievement - not in KDE though, that is still highly experimental and so back it goes to ancient protocols. Yay!
So yes, we are building fancy new stuff on an eroding foundation is the message I am getting from KDE nowadays. Compared to Gnome - which is stable but weird.
Thinking back on the Gnome 2 / compiz / beryl days we have gone downhill so much it's not funny..
ps. I know I'm complaining too much and that's unfair to an open source project. And I still perceive Liunx desktops as superior to Windows which has it's own issues (technical and non-technical). Just wondering what all the effort was spent on in the last decade or two. I just don't see it.