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Plasma 6.0 has been released. Check out the new overview, improved colour management, a cleaner theme, more effects, better overall performance, and much more.

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6

#Plasma6

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago

My son impressed his friends with wobbly windows the other day. Got to introduce him to the cube.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Not related, but why do most of the comments here have several user accounts tagged/linked?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago

This is a masto post

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Sounds like they're masto toots?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] Apparently, the answer is "No, I can't use Gmail with Kmail in Plasma 6".

Booted the current Fedora 40 nightly KDE ISO. Using "Online Accounts" did not set up my Gmail account in Kmail. Kmail found the account in Mozilla's database when I tried to create it directly in Kmail. I was led through a dialog that ended with a display of server info with a "Previous" and a "Quit" button. The account was not created. #KDE #Plasma6

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

@Corb_The_Lesser @kde @[email protected] yeah the new wizard had to be completely rewritten for Qt6 and still requires a bit of work and testing with various email providers. 😔

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I thought it was working years ago via IMAP. Is that not working now or do you mean using another method?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Google eliminated IMAP years ago in favor of OAuth and their API. Thunderbird kept up, I think. KMail didn't

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Im using my gmail account in kmail literally right now, what do you mean?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

Crazy how Fedora will get such a stable Plasma 6 when 40 comes out, nearly 2 months left.

I tested Plasma 6 on rawhide, reported a bunch of bugs and in the end everything was fixed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] Sheen, this is the 7th week in a row you've reintroduced the desktop cube in class

#kde

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Let's gooo! Can't wait to install it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] Congrats on the release, great to see KDE going from strength to strength. I like the subtle changes to the breeze theme.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This makes me reminisce about Sabayon Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Compiz and Beryl live on in spirit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Awesome, can't wait to try it out!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] I'm excited to try it out in a few months when it hits the repos 💖

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@[email protected] @[email protected] Kongratulations 🎉👏👏 woohoo 🎉

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] I'm running debian 12 on my laptop... and I might move over to this soon. How easy is it to remove all that padding around the taskbar and such? I imagine the old themes still work, but I'll take a look. It's pretty otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

If I remember right old themes do need a port

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

@ward @[email protected] @[email protected] you can disable the floating panel in Edit Mode

edit: for the record, a floating panel will revert to non-floating mode if a window touches it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who worked on it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (8 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] Can someone explain to me why having a cube to rotate is better than the classic desktop switching views? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

It isn't better or more efficient. Some people think it's cool. I don't you don't. Some think it's cool and that's ok.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

@unlucio @kde @kde do you not remember how cool Compiz was ? How it made the Mac users jealous and the Windows users weep
#geek

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

@unlucio @[email protected] @[email protected] well its one of those classic features people wanted back. Probably because its fun and visually appealling

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

For me it made it easier to visualise which desktop had which thing on, so I knew the front face of the cube was my main desktop and my email was on the face to the right.

The default way for some reason never really clicked with me the way the 3d cube did

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Apple did something like that, I guess in the first version of fast user switching for OSX.

On the bottom of the page containing the cool rotation animation, they wrote "Because we can.'

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

LONG LIVE KDE!

Kdenlive will automatically let you know when there is an update available without even requiring an internet connection.

What? How? Will it check the local package manager database?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

New versions of Kdenlive are released at regular intervals. When release day comes around, you'll get a notification.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] On that announcement page, on the video of the welcome screen for Plasma Mobile: the “wifi” screen renders only the title and a blank screen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@kde @kde "let you know when there is an update available without even requiring an internet connection."

How does that work. Because sounds implausible...

#linux #kde

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] For me, the killer feature so far in #kde_plasma_6 is the huge performance improvement for screen sharing in #wayland

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
  1. What's that driving game?
  2. It makes me nervous that they call X11 legacy when AFAIK they may never implement window shading on Wayland.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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