KDE Ends November With More KWin Fixes & Other Polishing Ahead Of Plasma 6.3

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Ends November With More KWin Fixes & Other Polishing Ahead Of Plasma 6.3

KDE developers have wrapped up a busy November with many fixes and other refinements landing this last week of the month...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Ends-November-2024

[Steffo]

- With Qt 6.0, resizing windows for Qt Quick based applications should now look "significantly better and smoother."

Typo. 6.9, not 6.0

[samuelec]

Good. I'm still on kubuntu 24.04 waiting for 25.04 hoping that by that time all major fixes for kde and wayland will be in place

[mrg666]

Plasma has been very solid and reliable for me with version 6 that I use with Intel and AMD cpus and gpus (FC41) plus RPi5 (Ubuntu 24.10). The only problem I had was Discover not launching randomly after 6.2.3 update on FC41. But I was able to use command line until 6.2.4 which seems to have fixed it.

Just a suggestion is to start an initiative for infrastructure overhaul project and slow down the feature developments. One improvement for infrastructure overhaul might be building a general configuration database to replace the nonuniformly distributed config files. Plasma is in such a great condition right now that I think it is worth improving the infrastructure on a simpler more uniform basis. It might also be a good time to go back and improve the efficiency a bit again. Dropping akonadi will help significantly to improve efficiency. It is not useful to have locally stored PIM facilities. Over so many devices I have, the only acceptable/useful PIM options are online alternative such as Google or Apple offer. So akonadi and all those applications that use it are just clutter for me. Plus they are very resource intensive. I uninstall akonadi and all its dependents immediately after the first setup if they are installed.

[sophisticles]

I'm just waiting to for the official KDE distro to be released, I'm tired of the haphazard way KDE is used by various distros, sometimes good, sometimes bad.

I'm looking forward to the day when we have a reference KDE distro against which all others can be judged.

[Mitch]

Plasma has been very solid and reliable for me with version 6 that I use with Intel and AMD cpus and gpus (FC41) plus RPi5 (Ubuntu 24.10). The only problem I had was Discover not launching randomly after 6.2.3 update on FC41. But I was able to use command line until 6.2.4 which seems to have fixed it.

Just a suggestion is to start an initiative for infrastructure overhaul project and slow down the feature developments. One improvement for infrastructure overhaul might be building a general configuration database to replace the nonuniformly distributed config files. Plasma is in such a great condition right now that I think it is worth improving the infrastructure on a simpler more uniform basis. It might also be a good time to go back and improve the efficiency a bit again. Dropping akonadi will help significantly to improve efficiency. It is not useful to have locally stored PIM facilities. Over so many devices I have, the only acceptable/useful PIM options are online alternative such as Google or Apple offer. So akonadi and all those applications that use it are just clutter for me. Plus they are very resource intensive. I uninstall akonadi and all its dependents immediately after the first setup if they are installed.

I think they've talked about Config centralization. While they value the benefits, it is a big endeavor and I don't think they were keen on pushing the volunteer devs to work on that feature, since the volunteers generally work on things they personally want to do. It would be amazing for sure, though.
Perhaps they could at least get some of the big system-wide things centralized first and try to nudge the smaller apps in over time.

One thing that has been on my mind for years is cloud storage. If major KDE Distros could out-of-box support some common cloud services like Google Drive, ProtonDrive, etc. I think it could really help adoption. It's something the proprietary OS'es set up for you on first startup, and it's a big deal having your things like documents and photos backed up, and having your family members' stuff backed up. I set this up by hand on every Linux install.

[mrg666]

I think they've talked about Config centralization. While they value the benefits, it is a big endeavor and I don't think they were keen on pushing the volunteer devs to work on that feature, since the volunteers generally work on things they personally want to do. It would be amazing for sure, though.
Perhaps they could at least get some of the big system-wide things centralized first and try to nudge the smaller apps in over time.

One thing that has been on my mind for years is cloud storage. If major KDE Distros could out-of-box support some common cloud services like Google Drive, ProtonDrive, etc. I think it could really help adoption. It's something the proprietary OS'es set up for you on first startup, and it's a big deal having your things like documents and photos backed up, and having your family members' stuff backed up. I set this up by hand on every Linux install.

I think the key feature for PIM is cross-platform accessibility. Without that, I just can't find a way to use those features. On Windows, those features were recently added like an afterthought and to force the user to create an MS account. But I still don't use those even on Windows. Why would I transfer my already working and secure abilities that are accessible everywhere into MS and then get myself locked up. Even though they are cloud capable I also disable/uninstall all Windows PIM apps/services. So, I am not sure, with akonadi features moved to cloud, I will ever use them. Currently, I can access my email, payment, and PIM abilities on any platform with a browser and a couple simple clicks.

I apologize, I used the word "I" too many times. But these are my personal preferences. I just wanted to give my perspective with the hope that could be useful for developers.

[bug77]

I'm just waiting to for the official KDE distro to be released, I'm tired of the haphazard way KDE is used by various distros, sometimes good, sometimes bad.

I'm looking forward to the day when we have a reference KDE distro against which all others can be judged.

I know it's just your usual trolling, but in case someone may lean to believe that: OpenSuse, Neon or Arch all have superb KDE integration.

[sophisticles]

I know it's just your usual trolling, but in case someone may lean to believe that: OpenSuse, Neon or Arch all have superb KDE integration.

No trolling, I consider OpenSuse to be garbage overall, one of the worst distros out there and I find KDE on it to suck.

Haven't tried Neon, but Kubuntu blows, Fedora+KDE is a joke.

Haven't tried Arch but Manjaro is great with Plasma, though there is an issue with the spacing of text in the terminal that is a showstopper for me, and MX Linux with Plasma is really nice.

But an official KDE distro is sorely needed.

[deck]

No trolling, I consider OpenSuse to be garbage overall, one of the worst distros out there and I find KDE on it to suck.

Haven't tried Neon, but Kubuntu blows, Fedora+KDE is a joke.

Haven't tried Arch but Manjaro is great with Plasma, though there is an issue with the spacing of text in the terminal that is a showstopper for me, and MX Linux with Plasma is really nice.

But an official KDE distro is sorely needed.

How is Fedora KDE a joke? I've been using it for over a decade, and it works really well. Stable, fast, for me it is a very solid distro.