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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 48 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Moxvallix@sopuli.xyz 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] FarLine99@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 5 points 11 months ago
[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Maybe windows rules will now work properly instead of being buggy and delete themselves...fingers crossed Imho KDE is too big, there are so many cogwheels they miss the opportunity to actually polish each and every aspect.

e.g. why does KDE need a specific videoplayer?

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 10 points 11 months ago

KDE and GNOME want to be full suites of software that offer a coherent look and whatnot.

Maybe windows rules will now work properly instead of being buggy and delete themselves…fingers crossed Imho KDE is too big, there are so many cogwheels they miss the opportunity to actually polish each and every aspect.

This release KDE has actually focused on improving and fixing more than just adding features

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

MPV and VLC Flatpak both use Xwayland btw.

Clapper uses Wayland though.

[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

never heard of clapper. Nothing is going to replace mpv for me.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

Clapper is a GTK something GUI for MPV that doesnt look horrible ;D

[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago

Maybe this time I can get blur behind semi transparent windows to work 🤔

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, I've never had window rules delete themselves, am I just lucky?

[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

how many rules are you using?

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not that many, maybe that's it. Is it more of a problem when you have a lot?

[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Idk, I wish I knew a solution, but researching didn't bring me anything. But it has come to the point that I feel KDE is not worth it anymore for me. Just didn't have the time to switch some wayland WM.

[–] Sina@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

I agree as well, but don't get the video player part. It shouldn't need a specific one.

[–] pbjamm@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does it NEED a specific player or just come with a default?

[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand the question?

[–] pbjamm@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

you commented :

why does KDE need a specific videoplayer?

I have not seen anything that indicates KDE requires a specific video player. So I was asking does it NEED a specific player or just have a default that it is installed with?

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

'Need' as in why do they need to stretch their development resources to cover a video player when they're already stretched thin and perfectly serviceable alternatives exist.

I have no actual idea, but that's what was meant. My guess is they want everything written in Qt6 so it can all be portable to windows etc.

[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

it ships with one, if that answer your question.

[–] TJmCAwesome@feddit.nu 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Will this affect SteamOS in any way? I guess the development on that is separate from KDE but I don't really know.

[–] samc@feddit.uk 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Eventually valve will probably push a SteamOS update out with plasma 6. But it'll be up to then when to do it.

[–] TJmCAwesome@feddit.nu 2 points 11 months ago

Makes sense, that's what I assumed

[–] jameskirk@startrek.website 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

To a "newbie", what does this mean? I transitioned to Linux full time less than a year ago and settled with KDE. Will this affect me in any way?

[–] unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Just a bigger update, should be fine. AFAIK they did not do any major overhaul from a regular user's perspective, but there are some pretty big changes under the hood. If you use a distro with regular releases, this will probably be included in the next one.

[–] jameskirk@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah that's what I thought, thanks for the answer!

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There where some changes though, different Dolphin icons, different and way better Panel changing, and more

[–] unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Right, but that's nothing compared to Gnome 2->3 or KDE 3->4.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The decision to adopt Chromium style versions was an interesting one for sure..

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

I mean some programs use 3.0 as stable, some have 3.15 or something as stable and 3.0 as alpha. They do what they do I guess

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you are on Opensuse Leap, Debian or probably also Kubuntu (Ubuntu LTS), no it wont affect you.

Stable = unchanging bugs, not working packages.

On Kubuntu you may get it with "Kubuntu backports" but really just no.

If you are on Fedora KDE then you will have Plasma 6 in a few months! The same probably for Opensuse Tumbleweed, Arch, etc.

[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Running surprisingly well for a beta. I really hope to find some free time and help some more with reporting the minor bugs left during the end of the year vacation time and help polish for the final release.