This week in KDE: a smooth release of Plasma 5.27(pointieststick.com)

23 pointsby TangerineDream3 anni fa6 comments

This week in KDE: a smooth release of Plasma 5.27

https://pointieststick.com/2023/02/17/this-week-in-kde-a-smooth-release-of-plasma-5-27/

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I really wish they'd fix the bug that's keeping us FreeBSD users stuck on version 5.24 :'(

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458356

Nothing has happened on it since last September.

At least 5.24 is an LTS version so it's still receiving security updates, but it's still annoying, I want this new goodness :)

ykonstant3 anni fa

I have a question about Plasma, and Linux DE more generally: is there a relatively easy way to get skeuomorphism through customizations? I lurk on r/unixporn but all I am seeing from big DE rices is material, material and more material; flat, flatter, and flattest. I am thoroughly sick of it.

ahartmetz3 anni fa

Regarding KDE, I think the Oxygen icons and widget style are still available. They are somewhere between leather-bound notebook Apple and Google Material.

2Gkashmiri3 anni fa

i updated to 5.27 and i changed to wayland and it has been VERY stable. Last year i could not continue for an hour without graphical bugs and crashes.

thejosh3 anni fa

I love Plasma, was using it for years until the jankiness got to me. Used low latency patch for a while. Chrome for example can't run past 60fps in kwin.

I really think the future is more smaller desktop environments like LabWC etc.

Desktop environments like Gnome, KDE etc where they try to package everything you might possibly need in a desktop, but half the apps they provide are out of date or broken is a bad user experience.

Gnome for example has become impossible to change important settings such as mouse acceleration without also having gnome extensions installed. It's bizzare.

mathisdiego3 anni fa

Btw they actually just merged mouse acceleration options into Gnome settings.