This week in KDE: a smooth release of Plasma 5.27

https://pointieststick.com/2023/02/17/this-week-in-kde-a-smooth-release-of-plasma-5-27/

23 6 3 years ago

ykonstant• 3 years ago

I have a question about Plasma, and Linux DE more generally: is there a relatively easy way to get skeuomorphism through customizations? I lurk on r/unixporn but all I am seeing from big DE rices is material, material and more material; flat, flatter, and flattest. I am thoroughly sick of it.

ahartmetz• 3 years ago

Regarding KDE, I think the Oxygen icons and widget style are still available. They are somewhere between leather-bound notebook Apple and Google Material.

2Gkashmiri• 3 years ago

i updated to 5.27 and i changed to wayland and it has been VERY stable. Last year i could not continue for an hour without graphical bugs and crashes.

thejosh• 3 years ago

I love Plasma, was using it for years until the jankiness got to me. Used low latency patch for a while. Chrome for example can't run past 60fps in kwin.

I really think the future is more smaller desktop environments like LabWC etc.

Desktop environments like Gnome, KDE etc where they try to package everything you might possibly need in a desktop, but half the apps they provide are out of date or broken is a bad user experience.

Gnome for example has become impossible to change important settings such as mouse acceleration without also having gnome extensions installed. It's bizzare.

mathisdiego• 3 years ago

Btw they actually just merged mouse acceleration options into Gnome settings.

wkat4242• 3 years ago

I really wish they'd fix the bug that's keeping us FreeBSD users stuck on version 5.24 :'(

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458356

Nothing has happened on it since last September.

At least 5.24 is an LTS version so it's still receiving security updates, but it's still annoying, I want this new goodness :)

This week in KDE: a smooth release of Plasma 5.27

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