This week in KDE: everything, I think
This week in KDE: everything, I think
We spent an enormous amount of time working on bug-fixing and polishing tasks for Plasma 6.1 this week. It was a big release, and there were some rough edges around the new edit mode. So we put qui…
The Ocean and Oxygen sound themes now include bell sounds, so our automatic “make the system bell not not make you want to commit homicide” transformer can get its sound from those themes
Relatable
In KWin’s new (off-by-default) “Hide Cursor” effect, you can now turn off hiding it after inactivity, and only hide it while typing (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 6.2.0. Link)
Does Plasma Bigscreen still receive updates? This feature would be very useful with it. Arch's bigscreen package is unfortunately stuck at 5.27
Seems like it is maintained but not ported to Plasma 6, yet anyway.
I wish the team would just spent an entire year of bug fixing and refining user experience without adding new features or making big changes such as the new desktop edit mode. Don't get me wrong, this is super exciting too, but for the complex nature of KDE it would be good if they keep a bit of focus after a major release.
well the "new desktop edit mode" was refining the user experience and fixing bugs
I swear I think of this every time someone mentions kde should just fix bugs. I follow Nate's blog weekly and try to keep track of any other work that is going on. 90% of any kde release is polishing, bug fixing, and refactoring or outright replacing old code that was causing issues. For some reason, people seem to consider colors changing from blue to red a new feature.
No, that's not what I mean. The new desktop edit mode is a big change for the devs and also for the end user. My suggestion is not to make this during the suggested 1 year phase.
It seems like a lot of the new features also fix old bugs by replacing the way they function.
How dare you say that. We need more options that most people will never use