Plasma 6 Can Now Play A Sound When Plugging In USB Devices

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Plasma 6 Can Now Play A Sound When Plugging In USB Devices

Following the annual Akademy KDE developer conference, more Plasma 6.0 changes have been landing for this major desktop environment release that will likely come in H1'2024...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6-USB-Sound

[Nille]

All nice and fine, but i would like that they fix policykit or remove the arbitrary limit to start kde apps with sudo.

[tildearrow]

Typo:

Dolphin, Filelight, and the Disks & Devices widget will now respect the user's choice for how ot display binary units.

[George99]

Suggestion for plugin sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_n3TiNDEC0

[DrYak]

Suggestion for plugin sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_n3TiNDEC0

...either that, or this:
https://infosec.duck.rodeo/.

[creative]

I noticed plasma likes to make all kinds of dings and noises on Slackware 15, by way of which I still switched over to XFCE. Plasma is gorgeous but I am not liking it for the digital audio workstation I just spent 24hours configuring slackstyle. I was hoping it would be a great gaming desktop but having steam on it doing some benchmarks even the the compositor off, not so great.

I'm really thinking its maybe a better desktop for those that just want their computer to play netflix and do office type work.

[ssokolow]

Plasma 6 will play a sound from the active sound theme when a USB device is plugged in or unplugged.

Funny this should be announced on the day when my DVI/USB KVM arrived to make Windows 7 USB hot-plug noises as simple as double-tapping Scroll Lock.

(Its purpose is to share my screen, keyboard, and central monitor with a firewalled-off-from-the-Internet Windows 7 gaming machine I built using a bunch of hand-me-down parts. When the only thing that I didn't either get for free or have just lying around was a non-VGA KVM switch, I might as well just leave my regular machine multitasking its ass off and set another PC next to it which can be configured to run games in as close to a single-tasking configuration as possible.)

[Quackdoc]

if be simply happy if wallet would stop pestering me so often, and automounting via plasma didn't require me to type in my password after login too, typing in my password 3 times after a reboot kinda... sucks

[Vistaus]

Wait, I'm confused. I've been doing this for ages on Plasma, either by configuring the sound myself or because the distro already set it up for me. What's the change here then, that it's enabled by default on all Plasma installations?
Wa

[sophisticles]

Plasma 6 will play a sound from the active sound theme when a USB device is plugged in or unplugged

More dual-GPU systems should have both of their GPUs properly detected

I'm reminded of when Hyundai first started selling cars in the U.S. years ago, they had advertisements in magazines that touted that their cars came with over 100 standard features, among them:

A steering wheel
Four tires
A transmission
An engine
Windshield wipers
AM radio
Door handles
Floor mats
Seats
Brakes
Wheels
Tire valves
Tire valve caps

The list went on like this, I kid you not, it listed every part of a car as a "feature", wish i could find one of those old advertisements.

This goes to show how half-assed the first Hyundai were how half-assed Plasma 6 is.