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Comment on What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal! by Aaz

Aaz — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 21:57:57 +0000

There are two major problems with KDE Plasma today:

1. The lifecycle: KDE Plasma does not have a homogeneous release cadence and life cycle like GNOME does. KDE Frameworks are released monthly, KDE Gear and KDE Plasma are released every 4 months, but at different times. There’s basically no harmony across these critical parts of the KDE Plasma stack. This is also compounded by the mess that is KDE Plasma LTS. KDE Plasma LTS only covers KDE Plasma. The Frameworks and Gear are not included. This is a nightmare to collect and release. Actually, Fedora doesn’t even ship Plasma LTS for RHEL/CentOS users anymore because it’s just not viable for a good long-term experience. We upgrade KDE Plasma for RHEL/CentOS users regularly now. For comparison, everything for GNOME is released together, and GNOME releases every six months. This consistency also makes it easier for Enterprise Linux distributions (Red Hat Enterprise Linux [RHEL] and SUSE Linux Enterprise [SLE]) to consider upgrading GNOME on a regular basis (SLE does it every two years, for example).

2. The sprawl: The KDE ecosystem is more than double the size of GNOME. A fully featured KDE Plasma setup is almost 600 components.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/x8m0bt/why_do_none_of_the_major_distros_have_kde_plasma/

Comment on What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal! by Andre

Andre — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 16:26:31 +0000

KDE UI looks outdated. I know Nathan recently worked on the Human Interface Guidelines, but still they reflect the current KDE look and feel. The starting point would admit the developers are in most cases not very good UI designers, and let a team of designers improve HID or even create a new design system. KDE is well known for its customization capabilities which may be great for creating a new an unique environment for KDE, at the same to accomplish a beautiful desktop KDE may need to compromise the customization (for end users) and be more opinionated about how the UI should be. If we compare some design system out there, we can see how spacing between elements has rigid rules, and even colors when you can change, you choose the accent colors only, and the rest is calculated to look good based on that. I’m sure how often people customize their desktop theme, but I never do; because most apps would work ok with Breeze Dark/Light, but some would look wierd with customized themes.

Comment on What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal! by Rob

Rob — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:10:24 +0000

Maintaining compatibility, especially with legacy(X11) software and hardware.

Comment on What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal! by eintopf

eintopf — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 12:43:22 +0000

Customizable Touchpad, but especially touchscreen gestures (I’m talking about the three/four-finger swipes etc.) for tablets or other touchscreen devices. This should include an option for custom scripts for gestures.

The touchscreen gestures (+ the options to customize these) that allow the use to swipe from the edge of the screen are great, but would be more useful if an option was included to execute custom scripts with gestures.

Also, these gestures could be made to include only parts of the edges — a swipe up in the lower right corner could then expand the system tray, for example.

I have not discovered a way to consistently use right-click on a touchscreen device — this means I cannot edit panels and do various other actions.

Final point: The system try is difficult to use on tablets. Using gestures to open it, or enlarge it, or something like that would be very helpful. The tablet mode ultimately does not look nice and does not fundamentally address problems (slightly wider spacing is nice, but not that helpful in a gestures-oriented digital world).

Comment on What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal! by Miguel

Miguel — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 09:48:33 +0000

Unattended remote access on Wayland has been a feature that has been requested many times. While regular remote access is already being worked on with KRdp it would be awesome for it to integrate with SDDM and to permit remote access without requiring confirmation from the user every time.

Comment on What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal! by NolanPG

NolanPG — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 20:14:58 +0000

I’ve been using Plasma for a long while and it’s my favorite DE but I also think that UI/UX can be improved, there are plenty inconsistencies still in Plasma’s design, although Plasma 6 made the environment a little more consistent I feel like it’s still lacking. I’m not referring to Breeze (which I think that also needs a refresh but I don’t feel like it has to be a priority, theming exists), I’m talking about the design in KDE apps, I don’t know if KDE Project has some documentation about guidlines for UI design but if it exists, the apps aren’t using it or it’s as inconsistent as some apps inside the same DE.

Comment on What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal! by deemon

deemon — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 19:56:38 +0000

in no particular order:
– HDR
– VRR
– 10 and 12bit colors

Comment on What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal! by Dini

Dini — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 16:28:50 +0000

Hi,

can you do something to KDE Partition Tool.
In KDE Partition Tool u can check the disk health and it shows also the
Operating hours, in KDE u just get the days and the hours.
In gnome u get hears hays hours.
It will be nice if this will be implanted in KDE

Thx.

Comment on What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal! by rahmanshaber

rahmanshaber — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 16:22:26 +0000

1. Better face detection on digiKam using open AI model, Current ones are not good.
2. Better media info detection on all media files so sorting in dolphin will be easy, currently it fails to get those info and those columns are blank

Comment on What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal! by Antonio Ozámiz

Antonio Ozámiz — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 12:40:18 +0000

Consider enabling a settings profile for optimizing the cloud / virtual desktop infrstructure computing usecase (and thus make plasma a viable option against Windows® in the cloud), in which for example you recover the once available kwin option “hide window contents while moving (and/or dragging?) “; another nice option would be to reduce the framerate and BPP to 16 bits, of course disabling all the compositor 3D code paths that make no sense in a professional cloud/VDI setting; another nice option would be to add a kwin_wayland backend to serve plasma over either SPICE or FreeRDP, at least poor old VNC/RFB (like MacOS); optimize plasma under wayland for KVM. There is a lot of potential for Plasma is the cloud, being so professional, nice looking, natural and evocative to the untrained user, it blows my mind that plasma keeps sabotaging itself, reducing the exposure it deserves, that it is marginal in the enterprise and thus relegated to the personal home space of Linux/BSD experts. Less fancy frames and more users seeing a donate window.