From Alienbob's blog,
The full post can be found at, https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/kto...-ac3-playback/

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it would be interesting to see: https://testfile.org/videos/hevc/ to pass
Interestingly after downloading this hevc file is played by firefoc/mpv in a separate window. This does not work with chromium/chrome.
If mpv plays this file I would think that this file type can be played by chromium also (inline?). If not that is still nice that more multimedia files can be played by either firefox or chromium.

It is mostly about Plasma-6, but a few bugs fixes for Plasma-5 were also mentioned.
The full article can be found at, https://pointieststick.com/2023/11/1...entation-time/

I hope Ponce asks people who post slackbuids to indicate QT compatibility, something like [QT5] [QT5-QT6] [QT6] in the title.

Slackbuilds are compatible with the latest Slackware stable, i.e. 15.0

SlackBuilds Repository
15.0 > Libraries > qt6 (6.5.2)
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/libraries/qt6/

QT6 is already a feature of slackware 15.0

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I got the iso and burned it onto a usb with 'iso2usb.sh'.
After booting from that usb, I used the on-screen link to install
slackware to a partition I had prepared for it.
I'd say that plasma6 runs fairly snappily. I was able
to easily install Libreoffice from Bob's repository,
and use some other tools available now.
The theming is pretty boring but it all runs ok

I had sorta fallen out with KDE5 and gone back to using the
to me more comfortable xfce in recent weeks.

I'll be watching for further updates

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If it is of any interest:
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Showstoppers

This list used to be very long, and now they managed to get it to only 1 item, it was only 1-2 years ago the list had about 5-6 items. The list of "issues", non-showstoppers was even much longer.

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I'm not doing any real work with plasma6 just messing around and watching some videos and it is ok. it is an x11 session not wayland.
I think p6 seems to have less overhead dragging on it than kde5

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I played around with KTOWN Live today. If works (as expected). I was a bit miffed at first with having to double click my mouse to open things. Found the setting (under Workspace Behavior) and now I'm happy again. Not sure what the default was in KDE Plasma < 6, but I've been single clicking with Linux / Unix since day one, I hate double clicking.

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This week's new features, bug fixes and performance improvements.
The full article can be found at,
https://pointieststick.com/2023/11/2...ze-approaches/

It might be worth testing it on Wayland too.. It's one of the big things about KDE6, that it should be fully stable/functional on Wayland, with Wayland being the default choice, not X. That means quite alot, Wayland will get priority in things like fixes and features.

https://pointieststick.com/2023/11/1...een-recording/

i was able to startkwayland from run level 3

The sodding jumping cursor is now hidden in the cursors menu.

I haven't figured out yet how to make the virt. desktop cube animation work yet, though..
but wayland seems to work
EDit: meta-c activates a new cube animation and arrow keys rotate the screens and then one can be selected.
edit2: actually the cube animation is pretty snazzy.
EDIt3: jumping back and forth between x and wayland at start finally caused wayland to fail
with no input devices available.

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The full story can be found at, https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.0-Beta

I've been using Wayland on Slackware 15 actually. It doesn't exactly feel completely ready for everyday use (nor was it advertised as such), but it's ALOT better than kde/Wayland was 3-4 years ago, and almost where it needs to be. I expect that to change with KDE6, that it will be ready for everyday use, and that any problems will be sorted out early in the lifetime of KDE6. By 6.1x I expect KDE6 should be great and work perfectly on Wayland, like with previous 5 series, when KDE5 had been fully "fixed" (lacking standard features) by 5.15ish, and had all the expected KDE features and great stability.

KDE4 to KDE5 also had some major changes, but it could be a different cycle this time around. Perhaps KDE6 will reach feature and stability parity earlier(or later) than KDE5 did (in relation to KDE4). But personally, I expect the scenario to look somewhat similar. So, personally, unless Slackware jumps on KDE6 earlier, I'll be looking to jump onto it around 6.1x.

Perhaps it is an interesting mention too, that KDE has basically become the main maintainer of SDDM, and I was reading somewhere that KDE might take over stewardship of SDDM sometime in the near future.
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma...op/-/issues/91

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