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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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This week in KDE: longstanding issues crushed
Nate. February 16, 2024.
This week the focus was on annoying longstanding issues, and a whole bunch of them are now history! If you’ve used KDE software for any significant amount of time, I bet you noticed and were annoyed by at least one of the issues mentioned below, and can now rejoice at their annihilation! This effort has dropped the number of 15-minute Plasma bugs to its lowest level ever–just 30. The Mega-Release will be shipped in under two weeks, and we want it to be as fabulous as possible! ..........
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Nate. February 23, 2024.
Welp, the mega-release is pretty much carved in stone now, and set for a release in four days! Lots of people have worked really hard on it for over a year, and we hope you love it! Nevertheless, I’m sure our diligent QA-obsessed users will waste no time in finding all the issues we missed, and we’ll work as hard as we can to fix them................
I know KDE dropped the name KDE, but I'll call it KDE6 or at least KDE(P)6, since for most users, that's clearest: they don't want to have to talk about KDE Plasma, frameworks, gear, applications, and QT, and whatever else, separately.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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This week in KDE: a smooth release
Nate. March 2, 2024.
Last Tuesday, the KDE Mega-Release came out, and I’m happy to report that it went well. Initial impressions seem to be overwhelmingly positive! I’ve been doing extra bug triage and social media monitoring since then to see if there were any major issues, and so far things look really good on the bug front too. I think our 3 months of QA paid off! So congratulations everyone for a job well done! Hopefully this should help banish those now 16-year-old painful memories of KDE 4. �� It’s a new KDE now. Harder, better, faster, stronger! ...........
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Nate. March 8, 2024.
The floodgates are fully open and developers have started landing juicy features for Plasma 6.1!
But not just that… we asked for bug reports and you folks gave us bug reports! Usually we get 30-50 per day, but now we’re up to 150-200. It’s kind of crazy.
Now, this doesn’t mean the software is actually really buggy. It means that people are using the software! Most of the bug reports actually not about KDE issues at all: graphics driver issues, bugs in themes, and bugs in 3rd-party apps. And many are duplicates of existing known issues, or really weird exotic issues only reproducible with specific combinations of off-by-default settings...............
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Does anyone using KDE6 have experience with Activities? I wonder if Activities finally got separate panels, separate FF profiles and most importantly is it possible to run on separate Activites different Kwin scripts e.g Plasma on one Activity and Polonium or Krohnkite on another
Does anyone using KDE6 have experience with Activities? I wonder if Activities finally got separate panels, separate FF profiles and most importantly is it possible to run on separate Activites different Kwin scripts e.g Plasma on one Activity and Polonium or Krohnkite on another
From my experience, this Plasma 6 is like Plasma 5 ported to Qt6, with many improvements regarding Wayland sessions and a nicer interface. If you want, it's like going from Plasma 5.27.x to Plasma 5.50.x. And it is very stable.
Anyway, I think what you are asking is fantasy. I don't think it's possible to ever have something like that regarding the Activities.
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