KDE Plasma 5.17 Making It Simple To Display A Network's QR Code For Easy Sharing

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Plasma 5.17 Making It Simple To Display A Network's QR Code For Easy Sharing

With the KDE Plasma 5.17 release, the desktop will make it easy to see a network's QR code for in turn making it super quick and simple for sharing network information with other users and devices...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Plasma-5.17-Network-QR-Code

[Danny3]

It would be very nice if they could add an option for users to export all the configuration options (the whole control panel) with their values to a file (in JSON format or another) and then when you reinstall the OS or switch to another distribution that uses KDE Plasma to reimport the configuration file and have all your configuration options and values you set there without the need to do them manually all over again.

[kbios]

While not as elegant as a single file you can just copy your .config and .kde directories over to get all your settings back

[Henk717]

I hope they also added the no notification history button, i don't want to keep dismissing all these useless system notifications.

[starshipeleven]

It would be very nice if they could add an option for users to export all the configuration options (the whole control panel) with their values to a file (in JSON format or another) and then when you reinstall the OS or switch to another distribution that uses KDE Plasma to reimport the configuration file and have all your configuration options and values you set there without the need to do them manually all over again.

it's already located in config files in the home directory, just enable the "show hidden files" and then look for .config and .kde directories.

This also works for most other applications.

[Vistaus]

I hope they also added the no notification history button, i don't want to keep dismissing all these useless system notifications.

I hop they will add a way to make the notification history interactive, i.e. clicking on "Software Updates Available" in the history will open up the software center.

[lolren]

I wonder who is kwin main dev now. Since Martin left, things are getting pretty quiet in that front. And I don`t know how the new devs are ignoring things like kwin low latency patch.....

[ngraham]

I wonder who is kwin main dev now. Since Martin left, things are getting pretty quiet in that front. And I don`t know how the new devs are ignoring things like kwin low latency patch.....

Don't worry, KWin is quite actively developed; just look at the git history: https://cgit.kde.org/kwin.git/log/

As for the lowlatency fork and the GTK frameExtents patch, I plan on discussing them with KWin's developers soon.

[lolren]

As for the lowlatency fork and the GTK frameExtents patch, I plan on discussing them with KWin's developers soon.

Thank you very much!

[bug77]

It would be very nice if they could add an option for users to export all the configuration options (the whole control panel) with their values to a file (in JSON format or another) and then when you reinstall the OS or switch to another distribution that uses KDE Plasma to reimport the configuration file and have all your configuration options and values you set there without the need to do them manually all over again.

I just keep /home on a separate partition and reuse that when I upgrade or change distros. You should try it, it's amazing how well it preserves your settings. And it's all mainly about ~/.config folder.