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Good one fam

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.

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

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? 😊

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

Did this bring KDE bigscreen view too?

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!

welp those sons of bitches did it. Oxygen and Air back, FINALLY virtual desktops per monitor, AND global push to talk.

I can finally now make Plasma my daily driver. this makes me happy.

This will make Microsoft confused, since it's actually improving the desktop in a new release and not making it worse.

Some thoughts for features I care, for my personal setup:

Highlights / Per-screen virtual desktops: Just in time for me. I finally added another screen and had to enable a workaround KWin Script "Virtual Desktops Only on Primary". For my use case this was already enough, but it is an awkward workaround that should have not been there. So glad this is resolved. Just need to remember to tick that off after the update and check it out. :-)

Highlights / Press-and-hold for special characters: This will have a bigger impact for me personally probably. There are lot of solutions to this available, but after my new installation (years ago now) I didn't bother to set anything up. Right now my keyboards physical layout is German, but I use an English-German hybrid layout in KDE. Its confusing enough to remember where all the special keys and access combinations are, so glad there is a much simpler way built into KDE now.

Widgets / “Background Apps” in the System Tray: I think this could be useful for certain apps that does not have a tray icon, but are able to go to background. Because otherwise I don't see any use for this. How many applications that can go to background without closing the app doesn't have a system tray? Oh is it for GNOME first designed apps maybe?

Usability / Faster virtual desktop switching in the Overview: This ability to switch desktops via shortcuts should be default on any multi desktop system. Me coming from tiling window managers is used to Meta+1 (or any other number) to switch to desktop with one hand directly to the desired desktop. I find the new pre-configured way of scrolling through with Page Down / Up a bit awkward. Not sure why they opt in to that.

Usability / “Type-ahead” on the desktop: Curious about this one. Nothing much to say, as there is no deep explanation here. Need to see it in action.

Theming / Breeze: Oh no, I do NOT enjoy rounded stuff. The new slide in for notifications on the other side looks pretty.

Theming / Union: This is a big one. But as I see its still not part of the regular desktop and needs additional "that is under heavy development" package to be installed. I'm actually happy with my current setup, so won't try it out yet. But this development is exciting for future me.

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