KDE Plasma 6.2 Released With More Desktop Polishing

[primary]

If it's your favorite then why not use it?

Not using any DE now.

[slalomsk8er]

Luckily for you, your company was smart enough not to go all-in with Microsoft. Most aren't. I know mine wasn't. Actually, they didn't go all in, they keep a bunch of stuff in AWS. Now they're having a bill shock and looking to cut costs.

Oh, we're all in but we can still install on our servers and hosts what we need.
So I have one Notebook with Windows 11 & WSL Ubuntu 24.04 and a Workstation with Debian 12. I just need to install the antivirus and update agents and do a domain join to be in compliance.

[s9209122222]

It is buggy as hell, there are more HDR issues with 6.2, I have no choice but rolling back to kwin6.1 on my ArchLinux.

I kind of understand why people still stick with Gnome, because they only release what really works, instead of this kind of buggy update.
Do they really test their stuff before releasing the updates?

[bug77]

It is buggy as hell, there are more HDR issues with 6.2, I have no choice but rolling back to kwin6.1 on my ArchLinux.

I kind of understand why people still stick with Gnome, because they only release what really works, instead of this kind of buggy update.
Do they really test their stuff before releasing the updates?

Are you saying 6.2 actually regressed in HDR support, forcing you to go back?
As usual, we have our Wayland friends to thank for a protocol seemingly designed for 1980: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-HDR-End-Of-2023

[t.s.]

One feature that’s much appreciated is: I can set my monitor (desktop) screen brightness from their software (Brightness and Color)! Tried it using ViewSonic and Lenovo 24″ monitor. As far as I know –and using– kde, gnome, xfce, windows 10, etc, I recall that I cannot set monitor brightness.
So, kudos for KDE Dev teams!

[mrg666]

It is buggy as hell, there are more HDR issues with 6.2, I have no choice but rolling back to kwin6.1 on my ArchLinux.

I kind of understand why people still stick with Gnome, because they only release what really works, instead of this kind of buggy update.
Do they really test their stuff before releasing the updates?

I don't see any bugs here, 6.2 works like a charm. I don't use or care about HDR though. 6.2 looks like a great release to me as usual.

[bug77]

I don't see any bugs here, 6.2 works like a charm. I don't use or care about HDR though. 6.2 looks like a great release to me as usual.

You don't care because you don't use. Once you experience proper HDR, it's hard to go back. Unfortunately, HDR support on PCs (yes, even on Windows) is patchy at best. TVs have figured out HDR (not that they had much choice), even phones have figured out HDR. Windows and Linux? Still baby steps

[mrg666]

You don't care because you don't use. Once you experience proper HDR, it's hard to go back. Unfortunately, HDR support on PCs (yes, even on Windows) is patchy at best. TVs have figured out HDR (not that they had much choice), even phones have figured out HDR. Windows and Linux? Still baby steps

I tried on Windows before. I had a cheap monitor that was supposed to be HDR and it was a painful experience due to color bands. I now believe HDR needs a decent 10-bit color monitor to be bearable without artifacts. That is why I don't turn on HDR even if my monitor says it can handle it. Saving that feature to use if I can buy a "good" monitor.

[bug77]

I tried on Windows before. I had a cheap monitor that was supposed to be HDR and it was a painful experience due to color bands. I now believe HDR needs a decent 10-bit color monitor to be bearable without artifacts. That is why I don't turn on HDR even if my monitor says it can handle it. Saving that feature to use if I can buy a "good" monitor.

Right. Cheap monitors don't really do HDR like at all. OLED is the only tech that can handle HDR properly atm.

[s9209122222]

Are you saying 6.2 actually regressed in HDR support, forcing you to go back?
As usual, we have our Wayland friends to thank for a protocol seemingly designed for 1980: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-HDR-End-Of-2023

Yes, it gets worse, there are other bug report on their website.
They do some workarounds to avoid some issue, but it makes more issue for other people.