Plasma 5.18
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Plasma 5.18
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Re: Plasma 5.18
#2No news from the wayland front?
Re: Plasma 5.18
#3Maybe something is wrong with me, but it irks me that there are 40 seconds of meaningless video before they show stuff in that video. I ended up skipping the video and skimming through the poorly formatted article.
My first impression is that it looks good. Lots of useful features. But I can imagine that if I had sent it to a bunch of other people who have no interest in KDE they would have closed the page again.
That said I have a question:
It seems that Plasma has tiling WM features. How useful are they?
One thing about tiling WM is that typical it's only part of a package. Another part is that people are typically looking at a lightweight hotkey driven workflow and the ability to script where and how windows appear with occasional non tiling things to fit applications that don't work well for tiling systems.
The other question I have is that one of the reasons why I go for these "lightweight" setups. Althouh xfce-settings daemons + tiling wm is what I do is also because of power usage. How is KDE in terms of power usage?
And yes, I realize that firefox, blink based browser, slack are the biggest power drains.
Re: Plasma 5.18
#4No news from the wayland front?
I use KDE on Wayland. It works pretty well; there's still bugs I hit once in a while (vscode especially sometimes is missing dialog windows and I have to restart it).
Re: Plasma 5.18
#5Maybe something is wrong with me, but it irks me that there are 40 seconds of meaningless video before they show stuff in that video. I ended up skipping the video and skimming through the poorly formatted article. My first impression is that it looks good. Lots of useful features. But I can imagine that if I had sent it to a bunch of other people who have no interest in KDE they would have closed the page again. Tha…
Kwin used to have tiling support builtin. That was removed from core.
There are multiple different Kwin script that add the tiling functionality now. Like this [0] and this [1]
Regarding being lightweight, KDE is very very light these days. In terms of memory usage it rivals XFCE. Not quite sure about power usage, but since Plasma Mobile is being developed and it shares a lot of code with Desktop, I assume it shouldn't be too bad.
Re: Plasma 5.18
#6Just started using KDE neon in a vm on my iMac for office work and it's really really good and productive. Kudos to the KDE team.
Re: Plasma 5.18
#7How about proper multi-display support (including mixing HiDPI and low-res displays)? Every time I connect my FHD laptop to my UHD monitor the windows on the desktop move around completely randomly. It is better than before, because they used to move outside the visible area, they fixed at least that.
But hey, at least there is an Emoji Selector now (???).
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#8Been using KDE for a few years now and I've always been impressed with the experience. I'm really looking forward to this update, for me night mode is critical. (I understand there were third party solutions but I often found them to be buggy or otherwise difficult to use). Here's hoping my distro adds the update to its repositories soon.
Re: Plasma 5.18
#9Been using KDE for a few years now and I've always been impressed with the experience. I'm really looking forward to this update, for me night mode is critical. (I understand there were third party solutions but I often found them to be buggy or otherwise difficult to use). Here's hoping my distro adds the update to its repositories soon.
I've been using gnome for more than 15 years, but I have to say I'm feeling quite an urge to try KDE again
Re: Plasma 5.18
#10No news from the wayland front?
For this release, just the usual bug fixes, and small features. But hopefully, for next release pen support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGx0TlNJlzs