KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta Released With A Ton Of Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta Released With A Ton Of Improvements

Ahead of the planned stable release next month, the beta version of Plasma 6.3 is out today for testing this next iteration of the KDE desktop...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.3-Beta

[Danny3]

Sad to see that they prefer to waste development time to support Canonical's crapware!
Why are they not letting Canonical themselves to waste time with this?
Imagine asking for more donations, even nagging them every year now and then use that money to help Cannonical's centralized store with a closed-source backend...

[mrg666]

Wow! so much KDE news lately. This project is so lively.

[mrg666]

Sad to see that they prefer to waste development time to support Canonical's crapware!
Why are they not letting Canonical themselves to waste time with this?
Imagine asking for more donations, even nagging them every year now and then use that money to help Cannonical's centralized store with a closed-source backend...

You can remove any backend you want. Or, you can even add snap on Fedora. Tell them to ask you next time before doing such foolish things.

[Danny3]

You can remove any backend you want. Or, you can even add snap on Fedora. Tell them to ask you next time before doing such foolish things.

I don't think that more backends than the native and Flatpak should be installed by default in the first place.
Having to remove or turn off thing where there are lots of things you don't want is not that nice.
And it's even very bad when you are in charge of multiple computers.

Also, they can tell us next time they ask for money on what they will invest it, because some peple like me just refuse to donate it the money will be used to help shitty companies like Canonical and Nvidia.
A bit more transparency doesn't hurt.

Or who knows, just separate donations!
I would like to donate for bug fixes and improvements in the following areas: Vulkan support, HDR support, Apt + Flatpak + Flathub support, but not for anything from Canonical or Nvidia.
Getting my money and do whatever you like with them doesn't fly with me.
Either you don't use my money for these two shitty companies or implement separate donations or you don't get my money at all.
Same with bug fixes, I don't want to see that my bug reports are ignored or take an enourmous amount of time to be fixed because they are too busy to fix things for Canonical's and Nvidia's crapware.

[V1tol]

I would like to donate for bug fixes and improvements in the following areas: Vulkan support, HDR support, Apt + Flatpak + Flathub support, but not for anything from Canonical or Nvidia.

I'm sure that most of Nvidia and Canonical crap is fixed by engineers from those companies. So basically by not donating you are prioritizing that crap over everything else. Congratulations.

[slalomsk8er]

Sad to see that they prefer to waste development time to support Canonical's crapware!
Why are they not letting Canonical themselves to waste time with this?
Imagine asking for more donations, even nagging them every year now and then use that money to help Cannonical's centralized store with a closed-source backend...

Looks like the most work was done by a google summer of code student for KDE and Canonical (?) and at least one other of the 4 is a Canonical employee.
Also don't forget, that unpaid open source contributors like to work on what ever they want.

https://github.com/KDE/snap-kcm/graphs/contributors

[Volta]

I'm sure that most of Nvidia and Canonical crap is fixed by engineers from those companies. So basically by not donating you are prioritizing that crap over everything else. Congratulations.

Wishful thinking. In this case it was done by independent contributor:

https://soumyadghosh.github.io/website/about/

I never understood how can someone work for crap like nvidia or snaps, but its his time and energy.

[MorrisS.]

Wishful thinking. In this case it was done by independent contributor:

https://soumyadghosh.github.io/website/about/

I never understood how can someone work for crap like nvidia or snaps, but its his time and energy.

Because many end-users have Nvidia cards.

[Mirox]

Better tablet and joystick support. Can you please explain why is a Desktop environment responsible to manage these inputs devices? Would this be rather the job of the system OS?

For example, what can KDE do better with those input devices compared to another Desktop Environment?