KDE Releases Plasma 6.2 Beta, Early Feature Work Begins For Plasma 6.3

[aufkrawall]

What do you mean? That when you start typing, Dolphin would try its best to auto-select the first match as soon as there is one?

Yes, it stops at the first result when repeatingly pressing the same letter button, which makes zero sense. If I wanted it to stop, I could just stop pressing buttons.
Instead, I need to type a large part of the file name that I want Dolphin to jump to really quick, which is silly.

[Nth_man]

I've made a post with several links as references, but Phoronix wrote "Unapproved"... So let's wait...

[Nth_man]

From more than two years ago:

Global keyboard shortcuts in Plasma that currently don’t use the Meta key now do; here are the new keyboard shortcuts:

• Switch keyboard layout: Ctrl+Alt+K -> Meta+Alt+K
• Activate window that wants attention: Ctrl+Alt+A -> Meta+Ctrl+A
• Kill Window: Ctrl+Alt+Esc -> Meta+Ctrl+Esc
• Automatic Action Popup Menu: Ctrl+Alt+X -> Meta+Ctrl+X
• Manually Invoke Action on Current Clipboard: Ctrl+Alt+R -> Meta+Ctrl+R

[Nth_man]

Alt+Esc was never a thing in Plasma. I remember that as I used to set exactly this combo to close active window (instead of Alt+F4 which is somewhat uncandy given that I F4 acts as a media key on my kbd). Thanks for the hint on Meta+Esc btw. I wish they had left Ctrl+Esc, etc untouched but at least there's an alternative according to your comment.

Note: There is a norm about "Ctrl" and "Alt" being used for programs, so "Meta" being used for the desktop environment.

[Citan]

1) ctrl+esc (system monitor / process viewer) - not working
2) ctrl+alt+esc (kill a process by clicking on its window) - not working
3) Hotkeys when changing keyboard layout - not working
4) Using custom / available resolutions on wayland (like 800x600) - not possible

And just to confirm - Did you really reused ctrl+esc hotkey, that was used for opening process viewer for ETERNITY and assigned it to _CLOSE WINDOW_ ? Are you actually really trolling your users guys? This is no joke - on fresh KDE install, pressing ctrl+esc CLOSES THE CURRENT WINDOW! Where did all the quality control on KDE gone?

If that proves being a factual, reproductible statement then it is indeed a very serious punctual problem, as well as a serious hint at a more broader challenge in keeping up testing quality at KDE.

The longer a behaviour has been "active" in a software, the more cautiousness must be taken in changing it even ever so slightly. This here would be a trust-breaking item for me, ending up with sticking with my version "forever" at least because fearing too much new breaks with updates. Which would be ultimately counterproductive for everyone.

[Citan]

There's still no way for plain typing to select desktop objects and for Dolphin to select the next entry when the typed letters were already included in the first result, right (the f9 seach bar doesn't count)?
With obstacles like that, it feels like bad Windows clone not following through.

What do you mean? That when you start typing, Dolphin would try its best to auto-select the first match as soon as there is one?
Feels like an interesting feature for some but if it had to be implemented it should sure as hell be an optional behaviour.

Because it being by default would wreak havoc with at least half of the people I help learning how to use computers. They are not comfortable with the concepts so like very much a clear "step by step" approach, which in that use-case would mean "first filter files by search term. THEN only manually select desired file(s)".

[Citan]

What I want know is when will they rewrite Plasma in Rust so that it becomes a real DE and not a half-baked Windows clone.

That should generate about 18 pages of arguing.

You're welcome Michael. :-)

This was actually fun. Love that new style. Thanks for that

[openminded]

Long time since I have used those, thought it was alt+esc. In any case default seem to be meta+esc and ctrl+meta+esc now.
But then again, was not left alt referred to as meta way back? Now it's seems like its the "windows" key on my keyboard.

Alt+Esc was never a thing in Plasma. I remember that as I used to set exactly this combo to close active window (instead of Alt+F4 which is somewhat uncandy given that I F4 acts as a media key on my kbd). Thanks for the hint on Meta+Esc btw. I wish they had left Ctrl+Esc, etc untouched but at least there's an alternative according to your comment.

[Morty]

1) ctrl+esc (system monitor / process viewer) - not working

2) ctrl+alt+esc (kill a process by clicking on its window) - not working

Long time since I have used those, thought it was alt+esc. In any case default seem to be meta+esc and ctrl+meta+esc now.
But then again, was not left alt referred to as meta way back? Now it's seems like its the "windows" key on my keyboard.

[MorrisS.]

Kubuntu 24.10 and Plasma 6.2.0 are releasing in the same week of October. So, I don't think so. But there is a good chance that they could update to 6.2.x later since 6.1.5 will be included already.

So KDe Neon will be not updated to Ubuntu 24.04.01 alongside Plasma 6.2.