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KDE Plasma 5.20

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Re: KDE Plasma 5.20

#3
People using KDE Plasma and not using some sort of rolling release distro are missing out, I think. 5.18 LTS was a very very solid release, but 5.19 and 5.20 have so much new that it's a bummer for people whose distros won't be seeing them any time soon.

Re: KDE Plasma 5.20

#6
>when you open several windows with the same application (like when you open several LibreOffice documents), the Task Manager will group them together.

This is exactly the opposite of what I want. Why don't the designers of 21st-century desktop environments understand that my 3 PDF files have nothing to do with one another? The same goes for my terminals, my text buffers, my web pages....

Why group things that are involved in unrelated tasks?

Re: KDE Plasma 5.20

#8

Always loved kde for ease of customization. Wish it had better support for auto tiling

You probably know this already, but you can use KDE with your choice of WM, allowing you to swap out kwin for i3/sway or whatever else floats your boat/gives you tiling.

Edit: Spelling

Re: KDE Plasma 5.20

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post #6

>when you open several windows with the same application (like when you open several LibreOffice documents), the Task Manager will group them together. This is exactly the opposite of what I want. Why don't the designers of 21st-century desktop environments understand that my 3 PDF files have nothing to do with one another? The same goes for my terminals, my text buffers, my web pages.... Why group things that are in…

Why configure it when it denies an opportunity to rant?

Re: KDE Plasma 5.20

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post #6

>when you open several windows with the same application (like when you open several LibreOffice documents), the Task Manager will group them together. This is exactly the opposite of what I want. Why don't the designers of 21st-century desktop environments understand that my 3 PDF files have nothing to do with one another? The same goes for my terminals, my text buffers, my web pages.... Why group things that are in…

It's KDE, so I would guess that it's fairly simple to configure to not do that.

Haven't used this version though, so what do I know.

Edit: It says about two lines down that it's configurable.

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