KDE Desktop Cube Effect Returns & Plasma Wayland Per-Screen Color Management

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Desktop Cube Effect Returns & Plasma Wayland Per-Screen Color Management

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly recap highlighting all of the interesting accomplishments for this open-source desktop for the past week. But with not having posted last weekend, this edition highlights the many achievements made by the KDE camp over the past two weeks...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Wayland-Color-Mgmt

[Danny3]

The desktop cube effect is really nice, but not so useful an easy to use without the long-time requested ability to set different wallpapers for each of its sides!
That would help to identify much faster which is your "main" side and which are the other sides, depending on how you organized them.

cool to have per-screen color management in Wayland session!

And as always, it's really nice to see a desktop environment where a lot of people joined forced (both developers and users) and created a lot of most-wanted features, compared to others which they have 1-2 most-wanted features and they miss completely all the others.

[JEBjames]

Michael

typo

"loggging" should probably be "logging"

[Ironmask]

Spinning cubes!

The gnu/year of the linux desktop is here!

[skeevy420]

The Cube might not seem important, but one of the most important usability features that anything can have, software, physical devices, anything, is a way to do some fun boredom fidgeting. Scroll wheeling between desktops only helps so much with boredom fidgeting. The Cube is great to kill some time when you have 20 secs left on a download or you're waiting on pacman to Zstd compress your kernel image before you reboot.

[ehansin]

The Cube might not seem important, but one of the most important usability features that anything can have, software, physical devices, anything, is a way to do some fun boredom fidgeting. Scroll wheeling between desktops only helps so much with boredom fidgeting. The Cube is great to kill some time when you have 20 secs left on a download or you're waiting on pacman to Zstd compress your kernel image before you reboot.

This is a good point. I switch between desktops sometimes just for reasons you say. I never really put it this way, but now that you did, it makes sense and does fit.

[pkunk]

... or you're waiting on pacman to Zstd compress your kernel image before you reboot.

Or switch to booster from mkinitcpio.

[openminded]

The Cube might not seem important, but one of the most important usability features that anything can have, software, physical devices, anything, is a way to do some fun boredom fidgeting. Scroll wheeling between desktops only helps so much with boredom fidgeting. The Cube is great to kill some time when you have 20 secs left on a download or you're waiting on pacman to Zstd compress your kernel image before you reboot.

While it has sense to me I think it's probably better to dedicate this time to standing up and having a good stretch. We often forget to have one right?

[geearf]

Beryl, that's one I hadn't read in a long long time!

[mercster]

Hah... FUCK YEAH, CUBE. 😂 Remember using the cube thing in some other window manager in the early 2000s, useless but great to look at.

EDIT: Oh yeah, compiz.