This week in KDE: bug squashing and more

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by jrepinc • 7 years ago

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Jonnax• 7 years ago

I really like KDE. The philosophy that an DE can have extra functionality rather than the standard "if it doesn't run on a 10 year old ThinkPad, it's trash."

Of course I'm being a bit unreasonable since the majority of desktop users likely are running vms and accessing it it over VNC/xRDP/Guacamole. And so require something snappy.

I'm running KDE Neon on a Lenovo T450 and an XPS 13. And the experience is great.

However high dpi is hell to configure, still not happy with it.

fenaer• 7 years ago

How did you configure high DPI for the xps 13? I couldn't figure it out and gave up.

Vogtinator• 7 years ago

However high dpi is hell to configure, still not happy with it.

If it's about the HiDPI autodetection you should try Tumbleweed, Qt has many HiDPI related fixes there and sddm works OOTB.

quantummkv• 7 years ago

However high dpi is hell to configure, still not happy with it.

You should check out the Wayland session. They have fractional scaling working perfectly there

scrollaway2• 7 years ago

Yeah X11 is unusable with HiDPI. Works great on Wayland.

jhoechtl2• 7 years ago

They have fractional scaling working perfectly there

Hear, hear! So you are not using firefox? All the XWayland apps are blurry.

KDE/Plasma apps are crisp. But to be fair, Gnome had experimental fractional scaling on Wayland two years ago.

est312• 7 years ago

extra functionality rather than the standard "if it doesn't run on a 10 year old ThinkPad, it's trash."

Actually, nowadays KDE is one of the most lightweight DEs out there. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/23/bold-...

The view that KDE is bloated was accurate years ago, but nowadays it's outdated.

jraph• 7 years ago

if it doesn't run on a 10 year old ThinkPad, it's trash.

And Plasma probably runs quite well on a 10 year old ThinkPad anyway. I run one of the latest versions of Plasma on an old x86 tablet with 1 GB of ram, a slow SSD and an Intel Atom CPU. It's just a bit slow to boot, but this was improved on the last release (I could not test it on the tablet though).

It is quite lightweight, but you probably shouldn't install the kde-full package on an old computer.

Symbiote• 7 years ago

I have KDE with HiDPI set up on a desktop, and that works fine. I wrote this a year ago, and included a screenshot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17420889

Multi-DPI may well still be an issue.

opencl• 7 years ago

I use KDE on a 9 year old thinkpad and it runs reasonably well, at least much better than GNOME.

jhoechtl2• 7 years ago

However high dpi is hell to configure, still not happy with it.

Plasma 5.17 on Wayland gained fractional scaling support. Works good for KDE apps, blurry on XWayland apps such as Thunderbird and Firefox. However, when you start

GDK_BACKEND=wayland firefox

firefox isn't usable, but sharp. Still a long way to go as it seems.

ta999999171• 7 years ago

Running it on an almost-10 y/o ThinkPad, careful mate.

est312• 7 years ago

Dolphin now tells you what’s blocking unmounting a mounted volume (David Hallas, Dolphin 19.12.0)

Wow, that's pretty cool! I've often been wondering about which application is blocking the volume.

iforgotpassword• 7 years ago

My personal pet peeve with KDE and GNOME is how they both pretend there is no other DE. At work we try to give users the choice and install multiple DEs, but it requires painful workarounds for silly stuff.

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