KDE Squeezes A Few More Features Into The Plasma 6.2 Desktop

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Squeezes A Few More Features Into The Plasma 6.2 Desktop

While KDE developers this weekend are busy attending Akademy 2024 as their annual developer conference taking place in Würzburg, Germany, prior to that there were a few last minute features merged for the upcoming Plasma 6.2 desktop...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.2-Pre-Akademy

[bkdwt]

I can't get excited about any desktop environments in the open-source world anymore, including Gnome and KDE. The only thing that manages to get me a bit excited (with some reservations) is COSMIC, and even then, I'm still a bit hesitant about it.

[gustavoar]

I have moved to using KDE 6.1, because of some lack of features and very slow pace of Gnome. I found it much better than the last time I used, but still not very reliable, specially for multi monitor setup, which is my case, from time to time crash reports pop up while cycling monitors, and kwin crashes, but it reduced a lot in the last few weeks. Not a deal breaker until now though.

My guess, if they continue this constant focus on stability, by 6.5 or 6.6 it will be very stable, and then they can start talking to distros about making it the default.

[Luke_Wolf]

I have moved to using KDE 6.1, because of some lack of features and very slow pace of Gnome. I found it much better than the last time I used, but still not very reliable, specially for multi monitor setup, which is my case, from time to time crash reports pop up while cycling monitors, and kwin crashes, but it reduced a lot in the last few weeks. Not a deal breaker until now though.

My guess, if they continue this constant focus on stability, by 6.5 or 6.6 it will be very stable, and then they can start talking to distros about making it the default.

Already available by default in Fedora's KDE spin, Arch, and openSUSE. Plasma 5 -> 6 was a relatively pain free transition because there was no big rewrite/rearchitecture this time around like there was with 3->4 and the minor rearchitecture in 4->5. It was mostly modernization against Qt6 and latest C++ standards.

[mirmirmir]

It's sad that they are stopping bug fixes. I used to be huge fan of kde, but in recent year, I moved away because I realized i really need stability over interface that looks like windows.

One particular bug that bugs me, when I click random spot in title bar, it crashes. I was excited to hear that this bug was fixed, twice, in this very website. But the bug is still there. Thinking back I lost hundred hours of work because of this one particular bug. And that was it for me. I no longer trust KDE with work stuff, especially working with heavy, time sensitive project.

All and all, I'm glad that kde is doing great, I was reminded that kde has a lot financial reserve. Hope they use it in efficient manner, prioritizing stability over endless obsession of adding more feature.

[mrg666]

It's sad that they are stopping bug fixes. I used to be huge fan of kde, but in recent year, I moved away because I realized i really need stability over interface that looks like windows.

One particular bug that bugs me, when I click random spot in title bar, it crashes. I was excited to hear that this bug was fixed, twice, in this very website. But the bug is still there. Thinking back I lost hundred hours of work because of this one particular bug. And that was it for me. I no longer trust KDE with work stuff, especially working with heavy, time sensitive project.

All and all, I'm glad that kde is doing great, I was reminded that kde has a lot financial reserve. Hope they use it in efficient manner, prioritizing stability over endless obsession of adding more feature.

Bug fixes are not stopping and I have never seen anything crash by clicking in the title bar. You don't sound like you are capable of doing anything heavy time-sensitive projects either. Has anyone told you to **** off lately?

[aviallon]

It's sad that they are stopping bug fixes. I used to be huge fan of kde, but in recent year, I moved away because I realized i really need stability over interface that looks like windows.

One particular bug that bugs me, when I click random spot in title bar, it crashes. I was excited to hear that this bug was fixed, twice, in this very website. But the bug is still there. Thinking back I lost hundred hours of work because of this one particular bug. And that was it for me. I no longer trust KDE with work stuff, especially working with heavy, time sensitive project.

All and all, I'm glad that kde is doing great, I was reminded that kde has a lot financial reserve. Hope they use it in efficient manner, prioritizing stability over endless obsession of adding more feature.

Can't you save every few hours? I now CTRL+S by reflex every few minutes.

[woddy]

I have been using KDE Plasma for 4 years now on all my PCs and I have to say that I am satisfied.
I do not customize much, but I like Plasma, I find it very stable and easy to use.
Keep it up...

[Firnefex]

I can't get excited about any desktop environments in the open-source world anymore, including Gnome and KDE. The only thing that manages to get me a bit excited (with some reservations) is COSMIC, and even then, I'm still a bit hesitant about it.

Why are you telling us this?
No reason, no explanation, no connection, just nonsense.

Btw, I can't get excited about any desktop environments in the closed-source world anymore, just because.

[bearoso]

Why are you telling us this?
No reason, no explanation, no connection, just nonsense.

Btw, I can't get excited about any desktop environments in the closed-source world anymore, just because.

I can understand. In the '90s we had all sorts of window managers trying different paradigms, so you had a lot to look into. The '00s brought compositing and a bunch of useless flash that people thought was fun to look at.

This last decade we've been caught up in standardization, stabilization and the Wayland switch, so not much has visibly changed to the user. Not to mention the trend of flat UI decorations. If you're not interested in the technical side, it's probably boring.