KDE Developers Fixing Initial Bugs From Plasma 6.2

[JackLilhammers]

No, you don’t.

I'm sorry, you're right.
You just need to run an obscure command from the terminal:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout ":minimize,maximize,close"

Discoverable and user friendly. Great UX!

Yes, they did and it does. Desktop icons are not part of the intended user experience.

I know and that's one of the intented UX's flaws, because it flies in face of familiarity.
Maybe it really is better to just stop using desktop icons, but when the other 99.5% of the desktop users have them, perhaps it might be a good idea to keep them enabled by default

You may or may not agree with it, but I’m having a hard time finding someone who would even argue that reasonable keyboard shortcuts are not part of the intended user experience of KDE.

I don't argue that they are or at least that they should be, but keyboard shortcuts are definitely something for power users.
When thinking about UX, there are lots of things that should be addressed before keyboard shortcuts.
Last but not least, power users may want to customize their shortcuts and are usually willing to learn how to do it

I occasionally test KDE, just to check if they had fixed the usability issues (which then turns out that they haven't, but I nevertheless give it a try).

What's the best way to boot a USB key with KDE 6.2 and test it?

Ubuntu 24.10 had been just released with the old KDE Plasma, so that doesn't help.

there are no usability issues. Kde is the most usable, most beautiful and most practicle desktop on any operating system

[solidarity]

There are a couple of ways :
1- Ugly way : press ALT + F3 from upcoming menu Desktops then Select which one you want to move ( This is same with right mouse click on titlebar )
2- Much easier way : Just press Ctrl + Alt + Shit + LeftOrRightArrow this will move the current application- window to next-previous desktop

You can also drag window outlines in the pager, as long as it is configured to show them.

[usta]

2) not having a nice way of moving windows between desktops. Last time I tested was KDE 5 though.

There are a couple of ways :
1- Ugly way : press ALT + F3 from upcoming menu Desktops then Select which one you want to move ( This is same with right mouse click on titlebar )
2- Much easier way : Just press Ctrl + Alt + Shit + LeftOrRightArrow this will move the current application- window to next-previous desktop

[Havin_it]

it's one of those things that's more annoying then it should be, but it first happened to me late at night. Mine is my desktop monitor

I can't even remember where I set the persistent 15% level to begin with, it was so long ago. There are brightness settings in Power Management config (according to whether on AC or battery), but they seem to be ignored anyway.

Anyway a big chunk of what Nate discusses on the blog is brightness-related so I guess they are tearing the guts out of it atm. Maybe 6.2.1 will restore sanity in this area.

[Quackdoc]

For me it's defaulting to 33% (I had it set to 15%) and I can't see a way to reset it. Moderately annoying. That's on my laptop panel.

it's one of those things that's more annoying then it should be, but it first happened to me late at night. Mine is my desktop monitor

[Havin_it]

It's doesn't appear to be available on Gentoo yet. I'm still on KDE Plasma 6.1.5

You need to keyword ~amd64 (or whatever ~arch) and live a little, I merged 6.2 at the weekend ... along with 8 million irrelevant point-releases of minor libraries

[Havin_it]

updated kde on my system to see how the update is, immediately set my monitor to 100% brightness... I'm not the only one either, know at least 1 other person...

For me it's defaulting to 33% (I had it set to 15%) and I can't see a way to reset it. Moderately annoying. That's on my laptop panel.

[torsionbar28]

I occasionally test KDE, just to check if they had fixed the usability issues (which then turns out that they haven't, but I nevertheless give it a try).

Funny, I recently switched *to* KDE because of the usability issues in the other major DE. I must say, the KDE workflow is superior, I should have switched years ago.

[lewhoo]

Switched to Plasma 6.1 (now 6.2) on Fedora 40 recently after many years on Gnome. With Gnome there was always this problem of installing a hundred extensions to enable the functionality of Gnome 2, and after it really misbehaved on Wayland and Optimus laptop for me, I decided to go with KDE. I'll stay, although it does not seem like a simple upgrade. I was instantly hit by several bugs (things disappearing from the "apps" widget, random windows closing after waking up from sleep, installing a Japanese IME is a nightmare and so far only sort-of-works, Zoom shares both of my screens simultaneously, etc.) and, as I felt looking over the shoulders of some friends, the GUI seems quite dated in many places. However, that's a matter of personal preference. However, what really seems annoying is the lack of polish given to the standard widgets. Here I miss some of the Gnome extensions. Configuring system monitors is not straightforward and it seems that none can display text over a graph. I know, I can write my own, but I prefer to complain

So it was true that KDE is buggy as people claimed (I named just a few bugs that I've encountered), and panel widgets are of significantly lower quality than Gnome extensions, but overall the experience seems better. I started filing bugs, but for now for more serious things.