This article is an awful lot of words for not much being said. I’m glad they like the improvements (I certainly do) but you’ll be hard pressed to extract what those actually are. This is kinda understandable, as plasma 6 is good because it’s a massive accumulation of lots of little fixes where usability was examined and adjusted rather than “major feature x and y”. But I don’t think most of us are here for feel good fluff for clicks.
The official blog is a decent general overview of the status of releases. FYI they are currently cleaning up some issues from the recent user facing release that weren’t in unstable/testing: https://blog.neon.kde.org/
I didn't like how this article is written, it feels like the signal to noise ratio is terrible.
I agree with the conclusion that KDE may be the best DE available for GNU available these days. It was the only DE to seamless support my multiscreen, mixed DPI, mixed refresh rates setup. And it wasn't complicated, I just turned scaling on for two of my monitors on the Settings menu, set the right refresh rate values, and everything just worked.
I hope they keep doubling down on bug fixing and being functional for end users.
From your answer, I assume you're a KDE contributor. Thank you for your contributions (regardless of what kind). Plasma really made me feel like the desktop is trying to accommodate me, the user, instead of the other way around.
I have a large collection of images saved in my computer, which I often send to other people through chat programs. The file picker with thumbnails is a godsend.
I hope Bruce Byfield will write something. He obviously likes KDE, but also criticizes where appropriate, and he just writes really good, well researched articles.
Did they streamline the konsole context menu yet? Last I looked at my laptop with kde it had like 900 options when I commonly use 3 and due to that are buried. That's my only big complaint with the system, its pretty damn good otherwise.
I like KDE on technical level, but I can never fully reproduce the Gnome's "Meta key/hot right upper corner expose" flow, which really grew onto me over the years. Also, last time I tried (a year ago) it was simply crashing around once a day which was a deal breaker.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 49.9 ms ] threadI instead recommend looking at this developer’s personal blog if you want to read something substantial: https://pointieststick.com/category/this-week-in-kde/
The official blog is a decent general overview of the status of releases. FYI they are currently cleaning up some issues from the recent user facing release that weren’t in unstable/testing: https://blog.neon.kde.org/
I hope they keep doubling down on bug fixing and being functional for end users.
I have a large collection of images saved in my computer, which I often send to other people through chat programs. The file picker with thumbnails is a godsend.
Nice work!