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KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop Environment Officially Released πŸŽ‰ πŸ₯³ (kde.org)
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[–] 13 points 4 months ago

If anyone's curious where all these new settings and changes are, there's a video by linux experiment that goes through them.

https://tilvids.com/w/1PzVNGBJGeQ5X14BGVkkhx

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    [–] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Did this bring KDE bigscreen view too?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Yeah, they revived bigscreen. It's an entirely different package though, plasma desktop and bigscreen only share kwin as the compositor and some of the core apps like dolphin, so you'll have to install them separately on your distro.

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    • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    As someone who came to Linux/Plasma from macOS, the way Plasma has dealt with virtual desktops has always baffled me. So I'm glad to see that it now works much more like the way I'm used to. Bravo!

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm kind of the opposite, I didn't even know per-monitor virtual desktops were a thing, so I was blissfully ignorant of its capabilities. But seeing it in action from clip in the announcement post, I now know what I'm missing and can't wait for it to be rolled out in my distro!

    I think the new default keyboard shortcuts for switching between virtual desktop in the overview is neat too.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    I used to have a Mac mini at work with two displays. I kept Thunderbird in one virtual space on the left and would switch to it as I needed. Moving to Kubuntu, it drove me mad that I had to move both desktops to get to my email.

    It was extra ironic, because where macOS treats both desktops as the same in terms of the Dock and wallpaper, Plasma actually treats all desktops as spaces that require separate settings. So the panel on one screen can look completely different to another. So they're separate in a way that makes no sense to me, but not separate in a way that also makes no sense to me.

    But ultimately it doesn't really matter, and I've been able to work with it just fine.

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    [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    Long time KDE user. As in "back to the 1990s" long.

    A new systemd dependency bothers me.

    Why? I run FreeBSD. We have no need for something that started as a service manager and became basically the entire Linux operating system.

    BSD is not Linux.

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Sadly didn't fix the one bug that's driven me crazy since switching...

    The start menu and krunner needs to stop launching programs before I'm done typing.

    Hit start, type "kwr," hit enter. Konsole opens.

    Why? Because when I typed "K," it autocompleted to Konsole. And instead of waiting to resolve the remaining characters, it just launches whatever is selected.

    Really tired of accidentally opening games when I'm already playing a game

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Why would it ever launch programs before a user has finished specifying? How would one ever run anything other than calculator?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Because - and I'm not defending this behavior - it launches the highlighted program as if you were navigating with arrows

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    Oh man that's also terrible. Or a great way to launch 15 programs just by swiping through a list.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    It's just the one since the start menu/krunner disappear after launching something.

    I just have to wait like 200ms but....I use AutoCAD for a living. I type commands and hit enter thousands of times a day. Really hard habit to break and frankly, I don't want to break it!

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    • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (11 children)

    Thanks for sharing. As a Linux newb with a laptop running Fedora, I'm now curious whether I can download and use Plasma 6.7 or will it be distributed with the next Fedora update? 😊

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    It should be available in just a few days at most.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Do you mean as part of Fedora 44 or as an update?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    Yeah, it should come with the next Fedora release, which is scheduled for October 20th.

    Feature updates, like this new Plasma version, get shipped every half year on Fedora. In between, you mostly just get security and bug fixes...

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    While that's the case for the Workstation (GNOME), in KDE Plasma version the desktop environment is a rolling release. It shouldn't take more than a a few days, considering their previous Plasma releases.

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    [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Oxygen and air my beloveds

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    [–] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Naive question: does this just come in with like apt update, or do I have to go out of my way?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Depends on your distribution! Debian is still on an older version. Even if you switch to Debian Sid (unstable), it's still on 6.6 https://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/plasma-desktop

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Ah. I'm on Pop!_Os, which I think is downstream from Ubuntu. So it'll make its way to me eventually, I guess. Not sure how to track that, heh.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    I think, that might possibly take quite a while still. Pop!_OS currently is still in the process of rebasing on Ubuntu 26.04, from what I understand. That won't have this update. If they stick to the Ubuntu LTS bases, then that might mean you only get it after 28.04 is release, which is in 2028.

    I read somewhere that they wanted to speed releases up again after their COSMIC Desktop is out of Alpha, so maybe you can get it earlier.

    Maybe it's also possible for you to activate the Kubuntu-Backports repository and get the release earlier that way. I really do not know, how good of an idea it is, though, to activate that on Pop!_OS.
    Would not recommend doing that unless you find documentation or one of their devs saying that it can be done...

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    • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    6.7

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    • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Plasma Bigscreen is in 6.7. Guess it’ll still be a while before it’s broadly available across distros, though.

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    [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Six seeeeven ...

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    • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Good one fam

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