been waiting on the global theme thing so I can save my weird setup and not have to rebuild it every time I switch distros (and I need a reinstall because I did something the computer said not to and have weird issues now)
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OCR in Spectacle is amazing. Need to test it out.
(To me its amazing enough that i infodumped a fellow employee)
Scrolling while hovering over taskbar icons to control that app's volume? The future is now!
KDE absolutely ridiculing Windows yet again
Meanwhile Microsoft broke the fucking Notepad
Spectacle OCR is fantastic news. That is really going to simplify one of my current workflows.
The volume slider with a scroll wheel over the taskbar icons is such a clever little addition. It makes so much sense. I can’t believe nobody else thought of this.
I haven't updated to 6.6 yet, and I can definitely do that.
I'm on 6.5.5. Probably gonna update now
edit: nevermind, Just saw the video below. Def a new feature.
Wait, do other DEs not have this? I believe even Windows has this.
Are you thinking of the volume icon in the systray? For that, it's pretty standard that scrolling changes the volume, yeah. @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works is talking about the volume of each individual application, though:
(I have hardly used Windows for the past decade, so no idea, if it has it.)
Sounds like KDE is also doing a lot of work that will be helpful on phones, nice!
You can also filter windows out of a screencast by choosing a special option from the pop-up menu that appears when right-clicking a window’s title bar:
An option to hide windows from Spectacle, when recording a screencast. Admittedly I am not much of a screencast person, but its good to know in case I need it as I have some future plans. So I could have some notes or the web browser open in same virtual desktop I am recording from.
I am so happy we have such a good desktop option, they are constantly putting out great features :D
How about Plasma Login Manager?
it's already available? CachyOS for example switched to using it as the default like a month or two ago. It's already out there.
Seems like it's part of the 6.6.0 release. Arch has it in testing at version 6.6.0 at least.
It's mentioned as the second point in "But that's not all...":
An optional new login manager for Plasma
Oh boy, feature freeze for Ubuntu 26.04 is on Thursday. Hopefully, they still include this update.
My work laptop unfortunately comes with Kubuntu LTS and I desperately want the virtual-desktops-only-on-the-primary-screen feature on there. Currently, I'm the guy that actively disables all but one screen, because my workflow does not work at all with the secondary screen switching in sync with the primary screen.
my workflow does not work at all with the secondary screen switching in sync with the primary screen
Same here. My workaround so far has been to put the windows that belong on the secondary to the "Keep Window on All Desktops" mode.
Yeah, I've done that occasionally, too, but it adds a load of friction for moving windows between screens, in particular also when un-/replugging the screen, so it's still painful enough that I don't bother with a second screen.
I guess, it also plays a role that I do use lots of workspaces, so it's 1) extra painful and 2) I don't have as big of a need for a second screen, since I can just switch out what first screen displays very quickly.
I'm still sticking to Gnome but I love these features and how more polished KDE looks with every update (even though I still think they need to perfect some details). It makes me really happy to know we have these really important projects being libre.
The ability to have virtual desktops only on the primary screen
sigh. I guess. I think I just need to settle on the fact KDE is never going to allow dedicated virtual desktops per monitor. I really want to use Plasma but this is a deal breaker for me.
I mean, this looks like a step towards that direction, no?
I still wouldn't assume it to actually go further than that. It's a limitation of the EWMH standard, which is used for controlling the placement of windows.
I don't have in-depth knowledge of the standard, but I assume, it can only represent 1 desktop as the active desktop and stuff like that.
Maybe you could try to be clever by e.g. always reporting the active desktop of the active screen and stuff like that, but yeah, no idea if you can do that for all aspects of the standard, and whether applications will still behave as expected.
Damn, I just love KDE, but my Linux Mint doesn’t support it anymore so I have to satisfy Cinnamon.
Just another reason not to use Mint.
What else should I use? It just works and I don’t want to mess with my computer anymore.
Its always so amusing to read the improvements and see how they are genuinely making the desktop better for users, and then compare to what windows is doing.
KDE plasma: A random contributor helped implement a nice little feature that somehow makes you 20% more attractive, nice!
Windows: We've killed your cat and replaced it with an AI-generated version that will forever occupy a fourth of your screen.
I'm really hoping they add a bunch of shit to the taskbar in 6.7. Maybe the start menu can show some ads, too?? That would really help the users
One thing I miss from Windows is the Meta+. key combo to pop up the emoji selector, and then clicking to insert.
I don’t like how it currently just puts it in the clipboard an expects me to manually paste it in, interrupting my flow when I have something more important in my clipboard.
Loading this page on Firefox mobile crashes Firefox. Every time I try and open it. Is this happening for anyone else ?
It also crashes Voyager if I open the link directly without going "open in Firefox"
Looks like a lot of small improvements and polish. Can't wait to give it a go.
Alt-double-click to open Properties on a file is straight out of Windows. It's something I really missed!
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