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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Bro666@lemmy.kde.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

David, Nate, Josh, Marco, Carl, and Niccolò are here ready to answer all your questions on Plasma (all versions), Gear, Frameworks, Wayland (and how it affects KDE's software), and everything in between.

Fire away, Lemmy!


We were expecting to be done in an hour and we have past the 2-hour mark already! Time flies when you are having fun.

Thank you for all the questions and the welcoming and friendly atmosphere, but the devs must get back to making Plasma 6 great.

Please keep the conversation going and KDE contributors will continue to answer over the next days as time permits.

Thank you all!!

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[-] renesman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 10 months ago

How do you copy windows features before they are even announced?

[-] davidre@lemmy.kde.social 27 points 10 months ago

We don't have a spy that's for sure!

[-] Pointedstick@lemmy.kde.social 15 points 10 months ago

whistles innocently

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 21 points 10 months ago

You folks are awesome 👍👍

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 20 points 10 months ago
[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

inb4 floating taskbar in Windows 12

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Hey folks!

With Wayland becoming the "Default" for most distributions now, will KDE begin to integrate some Wayland only features that you're excited about?

I've seem some very interesting experiments for swapping desktop sessions (GNOME to KDE to Sway whole CSGO was running) all without losing state, and storing application state to disk.

[-] Pointedstick@lemmy.kde.social 19 points 10 months ago

In fact there are already quite a few Wayland-only features. You can read about them on https://community.kde.org/Plasma/X11_Known_Significant_Issues.

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[-] notmart@lemmy.kde.social 8 points 10 months ago

on the side of our apps (or anything written with Qt) all of that (and most important seamless compositor restart/crash recovery with the application surviving) everyhting should be there for 6.0. with other toolkits the mileage might vary (depending when they include the required changes, when a given distribution packages them and so on)

[-] kellyaster@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago

Hello David, Nate, Josh, Marco, Carl, and Niccolò. How are you all feeling today?

[-] carlschwan@floss.social 15 points 10 months ago

@kellyaster @Bro666 Pretty hungry but I'm cooking a ratatouille right now to fix this issue :)

[-] Pointedstick@lemmy.kde.social 12 points 10 months ago

Feeling just fine. :)

[-] davidre@lemmy.kde.social 11 points 10 months ago

Relaxed at the moment :)

[-] notmart@lemmy.kde.social 11 points 10 months ago

just had dinner, therefore, great :D

[-] macattack@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

What is one KDE feature developed within the last few years that you think is extremely productive/helpful yet is rarely utilized/talked about.

[-] Pointedstick@lemmy.kde.social 20 points 10 months ago

Plasma Vaults! It's the best implementation of having a little encrypted bucket to put your important files in that I've ever used, on any platform. It's very well integrated into Plasma as a 1st-party supported feature, and it works wonderfully.

[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I use plasma vaults! Its great for homework folders and tax information!

One frustration with vaults though is that theres no clean way to make a portable vault on a USB stick or backed up to a cloud provider (nextcloud, google drive, etc) without digging into weird dot-folder paths and manually entering links to these in a text config file. FUSE-style integration would be rad.

EDIT: The primary use case for this would be to be able to carry sensitive information around like PII, tax, password vaults, family photos, documents, and so on, in such a way that you always have it on you (like on a keychain) or backed up elsewhere, and would be especially useful in cases of disaster - but if you drop and lose it somewhere, a malicious actor doesnt suddenly have your data.

[-] Pointedstick@lemmy.kde.social 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's a fantastic idea. I've had the same thought myself.

One challenge with making it portable is that you need something that will work on any machine you plug it into. If there's an emergency and you need the data on there when you don't have your main computer, it's likely that the machine you plug it into isn't running Plasma. For this reason I think a hardware-encrypted flash drive with physical number buttons on it suits the use case better. That way you decrypt it with your fingers, and then the contents are readable on any random Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS etc device you have to plug it into.

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[-] davidre@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 10 months ago

It has not been developed in the last few years but always krunner! A recent-ish feature that was already in Plasma 5 is to bind key presses to your extra mouse buttons or tablet tool buttons

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[-] russjr08@bitforged.space 14 points 10 months ago

Hey there KDE team! What is your favorite feature that is coming along with Plasma 6 (or even with the KDE Gear / KDE Framework updates)?

[-] carlschwan@lemmy.kde.social 22 points 10 months ago

For me it's definively the new overview effect, I already use it all the time on my Plasma dev session.

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[-] sohrabbehdani@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

is there any plans for more mobile friendly applications?

the only problem that i have currently with plasma mobile is the lack of mobile friendly applications :)

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 14 points 10 months ago

Josh says: "Yes, we are always interested in making our applications mobile-ready and almost every new KDE application uses Kirigami our convergent framework. Some of our older applications such as Okular, Dolphin, etc need more work on mobile but this is something that's being worked on."

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 9 points 10 months ago

Carl says: Also take a look at https://plasma-mobile.org/ which lists most of the kirigami apps that work on mobile.

[-] notmart@lemmy.kde.social 10 points 10 months ago

We sure do plan of moving more and more of our app to the new convergent ui toolkit made with QML and Kirigami, in the future more and more of our apps should become mobile ready

[-] carlschwan@lemmy.kde.social 8 points 10 months ago

In addition to that Josh said, we have a list of mobile friendly first party applications here: https://plasma-mobile.org/ It's not completely up to date and is missing some newer additions.

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[-] Horsey@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

KDE Connect is something I keep my eye on and check in every once in a while: Is there a dedicated page tracking updates specifically to KDE Connect? I’m really very much looking forward to a time where it is feature compete with Android compared to Apple’s continuity platform. I would absolutely love to move to Android+Linux as my daily drivers, but I feel like I’m giving up on too much by leaving the Apple ecosystem.

Does Connect use BTLE?
Could you guys implement an auto tethering option between phone/PC?
How instant are notifications synced? Do notifications disappear on one side or the other when viewed on one or the other platform?
Maybe implement a “link to KDE” notification toggle to mirror the “link to windows” functionality of Android?

[-] carlschwan@lemmy.kde.social 9 points 10 months ago

Is there a dedicated page tracking updates specifically to KDE Connect?

It is part of KDE Gear, so generally in the gear release announcement. The last few releases were not that big in term of feature but the next one includes some goodies.

Does Connect use BTLE?

KDE Connect will have the Bluetooth backend enabled by default with the next gear release (24.02). I'm not sure if this is BTLE or normal Bluetooth.

Could you guys implement an auto tethering option between phone/PC?

No idea :(

How instant are notifications synced?

For me it is pretty instant. I never miss my Bereal notifications thanks to it :)

Do notifications disappear on one side or the other when viewed on one or the other platform?

Yes

Maybe implement a “link to KDE” notification toggle to mirror the “link to windows” functionality of Android?

No idea :(

[-] jawa21@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago

In your opinion, what is the most substantial change/addition slated for the megarelease?

[-] davidre@lemmy.kde.social 11 points 10 months ago

It may be not user visible and technically not a Plasma but Qt change but I find the work so that apps survive the compositor restarting amazing. See http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/qt6_wayland_robustness/

[-] carlschwan@lemmy.kde.social 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For me personally, it's the updated breeze theme. But I might not be completely objective here, since I drove this effort quite a lot :)

Some screenshots to see the difference: https://invent.kde.org/websites/product-screenshots/-/merge_requests/51/diffs

[-] Pointedstick@lemmy.kde.social 7 points 10 months ago

One of the most visible ones for me is that most common multimonitor workflows Just Work™ in the Wayland session now. There are still edge cases, but we've put a huge amount of effort into this.

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 7 points 10 months ago

With HDR making its debut on Plasma, what are the plans moving forward?

From what I have seen getting games to work in HDR currently requires the correct vulkan layers and a recent gamescope version?

As a side question, will there be an easy way to get HDR working with the Steam flatpak for the Plasma 6 launch?

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[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thanks for all the great work on kde! I was wondering if the KDE theme refresh, (brise) and icon (app and plasma icon) proposals are going to happen in plasma 6.1? Or is that not on the table? Also, are there plans to have KDE connect support making your phone a webcam?

Edit: grammar

[-] davidre@lemmy.kde.social 10 points 10 months ago

Also, is there plans to have KDE connect support making your phone a webcam?

That's an amazing idea! Currently I am using my laptop next to my desktop screens as a sudo webcam :D

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[-] leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 6 points 10 months ago

What’s the best or recommended way to test out Plasma 6 RC2?

And

What has been the hardest problem to solve moving to Qt6?

[-] notmart@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 10 months ago

To just test out without any risk and not touching any running system i would suggest a live image such as KDE Neon Unstable which has dailiy updated snapshots of our software stack

as moving to Qt6 from a developer POV, It has been remarkably uneventful. there are api changes for sure (Especially on the QML side of things) but the changes are not as great as say, Qt4 to Qt5.

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