KDE's Bug Fixes & Other Desktop Enhancements For Christmas

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE's Bug Fixes & Other Desktop Enhancements For Christmas

The latest KDE weekly development summary is out that notes all of the fixes and improvements made during Christmas week...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Christmas-2021

[tildearrow]

Plasma now shuts down faster by no longer accepting new connections after it’s begun the shutdown process, which particularly helps when using KDE Connect

This must be why has Plasma been taking longer to exit since 5.19! Hopefully after this change logging out becomes instantaneous.

[V1tol]

Yakuake no longer appears under a top panel when running on Plasma Wayland.

I wonder did they fix global open-close hotkey for Yakuake on Wayland. Hotkeys (and under panel issue) is fixed when force launch Yakuake using QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb (ie XWayland).

[gbcox]

One extremely annoying bug regarding date/time formats which has more or less been just vibrating in place since 2014 (yes, that isn't a typo, this thing as been open for 7 years and counting...) is maybe, kinda, possibly, hopefully getting some attention. Hope springs eternal.

[keit99]

Usually it should work with wayland, but it could be one of the protocol limitations wayland suffers from (becuase applications cannot listen to key inputs all the time, which to be fair woudl be a security catastrophy (is on Xorg) )

[Saverios]

Usually it should work with wayland, but it could be one of the protocol limitations wayland suffers from (becuase applications cannot listen to key inputs all the time, which to be fair woudl be a security catastrophy (is on Xorg) )

On that note, does anyone know if mouse gestures will ever be implemented in Wayland? They don't seem to work at the moment. Having a single gesture for some common keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl-W to close a tab (which is used in browsers, dolphin, okular, etc) is mighty convenient.

I understand how this could be a security risk - is there any way around it? ngraham ?

[ngraham]

On that note, does anyone know if mouse gestures will ever be implemented in Wayland? They don't seem to work at the moment. Having a single gesture for some common keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl-W to close a tab (which is used in browsers, dolphin, okular, etc) is mighty convenient.

I understand how this could be a security risk - is there any way around it? ngraham ?

It would probably require a new Wayland protocol to be written for it. The current mouse gesture feature relies on implementation details of X11 and does not work on Wayland.

[tildearrow]

which to be fair woudl be a security catastrophy (is on Xorg) )

...unless there is a permission system just like macOS. Something that Wayland developers haven't considered (yet).

[Mthw]

I wonder did they fix global open-close hotkey for Yakuake on Wayland. Hotkeys (and under panel issue) is fixed when force launch Yakuake using QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb (ie XWayland).

Are you asking whether it's possible to open/close Yakuake by pressing, let's say, F12? Because it does work.

[tildearrow]

One extremely annoying bug regarding date/time formats which has more or less been just vibrating in place since 2014 (yes, that isn't a typo, this thing as been open for 7 years and counting...) is maybe, kinda, possibly, hopefully getting some attention. Hope springs eternal.

Yeah, for some reason Plasma 5's customizability kind of went away when compared to KDE 4, or at least that was the case during its infancy.