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Plasma 6 looks to be shaping up quite nicely already! Some really nice quality of life style updates, and I'm quite shocked (though the reasoning makes sense) to see them moving to double-click actions by default instead of single-click.

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

Quick question, has the relation between KDE (the organization) and Qt company improved? I remember reading about the tension regarding Qt 6 that will be available under different term such as waiting time for non paying license holder to use latest release.

For reference https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah this is one of those subjects that I'm just not too familiar with myself. As far as I understood it, KDE has a license granted to them by the Qt Foundation which should allow them to continue/press on but admittedly I've not looked into it too much myself unfortunately.