KDE Plasma 6.5 released
How do you make a great desktop into a fantastic desktop? Easy — chip away at the rough bits, polish the good stuff, and add awesomeness. After 29 years of development, KDE’s got the foundation nailed down. Plasma 6.5 is all about fine-tuning, fresh features, and a making everything smooth and sleek for everyone.
Ready to see what’s new? Let’s dive into Plasma 6.5!
Highlights:
- Automatic Theme Transitions: Configure when your theme will transition from light to dark and back.
- Caret Text Navigation: Zoom now swoops in to where you type
- KRunner Fuzzy Search: Even if you type it wrong, KRunner will find it!
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mogoh
in reply to Jure Repinc • • •Every time I try KDE I get burned by some bugs. How is stability?
Baloo for example was some source of pain for me. And if I look at the bug tracker I do not get confidant.
bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_s…
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rozodru
in reply to mogoh • • •the only issues I had with KDE when I was recently using it all revolved around the panel. Random crashes with "too much" interaction. Adding widgets for the panel or desktop is still to this day hit or miss. clicking the "get new widget" option is a roll of the dice if it will actually work or not or even find the thing you want. It's still horrible at loading stuff in there. and installing whatever, again, is a roll of the dice if it will actually do it or not.
I like KDE, it's a good and solid DE but man do they really need to focus on fixing the panels and the installation/discovery of widgets. The alternative is using the pling store and that's just a headache on it's own.
chronicledmonocle
in reply to mogoh • • •Same. I always try it out and run into some critical bug causing me to abandon it.
My Linux Mint install with Cinnamon "just works", so I've been sticking with that and hoping Wayland support goes stable soon, because I hate X Server.
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TechLich
in reply to Jure Repinc • • •And Debian Sid is still stuck on 6.3.6 🙁
Hopefully they figure out the qt update thing and get the new version packaged soon?
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Kami
in reply to ghost_laptop • • •They are two opposite styles of UI.
However, KDE has a fuckton of customization possibilities that I have always been dreaming of in GNOME.
And I'm saying this as a GNOME guy, absolutely zero fanboyism here.
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in reply to ghost_laptop • • •I also think Gnome is much prettier than KDE but KDE is a fully working desktop environment that does not need extensions to get it to a working state so here I am.
(Although I would not call KDE ugly)
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in reply to ghost_laptop • • •Yeah me neither, from the other side, lol
melfie
in reply to Jure Repinc • • •Neurodivergent people when it automatically switches to light mode:
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in reply to Jure Repinc • • •What a banger release! Last time they focused on bug hunting, this time its about features. This ping pong focused development is very nice.
~character to toggle the functionality:"~file"to enable fuzzy in example, if its disabled by default. I may even make a suggestion in the issue tracker, but I don't know what options they integrated into it yet.like this
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in reply to Obin • • •I never used khotkeys, but would input-remapper do what you want? You can remap keys or execute macros on key presses. It supports X11 and Wayland.
github.com/sezanzeb/input-rema…
GitHub - sezanzeb/input-remapper: 🎮 ⌨ An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices.
GitHubLuffy
in reply to Jure Repinc • • •Great, but when kbigscreen.
I need a decent Chromecast replacement