The dust is starting to settle now the huge KDE Plasma 6 release is out in the wild, with it beginning to land for more distributions but there's been some issues. Thankfully, the release wasn't anywhere near as troublesome as KDE Plasma 4, which I'm sure some readers have memories of.
Firstly, for people using KDE neon, it looks like they had some problems. As mentioned in a news post, the developers of KDE neon apologised for packaging problems in the "User Edition", with more fixes coming as they continue putting out the fires of the new release.
Plasma 6 has also now landed for Arch Linux, so if you run updates you should see it available. Arch is a rolling distro, so it's no big surprise to see it be one of the first to fully roll it out. Much like the KDE neon update, you can expect some issues here and there while things become a bit more tested.
Pictured - KDE Plasma 6
Also, the first Plasma 6 point release is out with Plasma 6.0.1. It's only a small one but with some necessary bug fixes.
Development on Plasma 6.1 is already heating up too. As Nate Graham has been blogging about recently like the addition of a new KWin effect called Hide Cursor, that allows you to automatically hide the cursor after a certain period. Plus an option to allow XWayland apps to eavesdrop on mouse buttons, various UI improvements are coming too like the newer Cube effect not working with fewer than 3 virtual desktops actually now telling you why and prompting you to add more. A previous blog post also highlighted a big fun new feature for Plasma 6.1 with a "fake" session restore (while they wait for the Wayland protocol to be finalised) that re-opens apps you had at the last logout, so all apps should properly re-launch on login and this works on X11 too.
Have you been testing out Plasma 6? What do you think? Let me know in the comments.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Metallinatus Mar 7
sobinsiril Mar 7
It doesn't open for me unless I open it from a magnet link or a torrent file.
Quoting: sobinsirilDoes anyone else have issues with qbittorrent working on Plasma 6, Arch Linux?
It doesn't open for me unless I open it from a magnet link or a torrent file.
Worked fine for me after the upgrade. I did have a version of qBittorrent installed that worked with Qt5 since the official version looked bad on Plasma 5 but now with Plasma 6, I installed the normal version of qBittorrent which looks good now on Plasma 6.
mZSq7Fq3qs Mar 7
pleasereadthemanual Mar 7
Chromium is now really buggy for some reason. It flickers all the time. And the Qt theme is broken. I was already using the Wayland session, so it's strange to see regressions like this. I use Firefox 95% of the time anyway and it works fine, so it's no big deal.
The Steam client was already a flickering mess before the upgrade, but now the icons are in completely the wrong place on the Downloads page.
My single-click to open files in Dolphin was changed to double-click for some reason, so I changed it back.
There's now a bug in the Overview effect where if you have two rows of virtual desktops, it won't display the row of virtual desktops at the top. It worked fine in Plasma 5. I've set it back to one row of virtual desktops for now. The overview effect is an improvement otherwise.
Signal Desktop now takes a long time to load up or doesn't load up at all unless started from the terminal. On the other hand, Thunderbird now starts up when launched and I no longer need to launch it from the terminal!
I hope the annoying bug where resuming from suspend would shuffle my primary monitor to my second monitor is fixed now.
Overall, not too disruptive.
Quoting: sobinsirilDoes anyone else have issues with qbittorrent working on Plasma 6, Arch Linux?Works for me.
It doesn't open for me unless I open it from a magnet link or a torrent file.
sobinsiril Mar 7
Quoting: sobinsirilDoes anyone else have issues with qbittorrent working on Plasma 6, Arch Linux?Well I found someone with the same issue.
It doesn't open for me unless I open it from a magnet link or a torrent file.
Apparently it had to do with the "Hidden on Startup Option". Doesn't matter anymore because I decided to give KTorrent a try and I kinda like it :)
TheRiddick Mar 7
Yet to see what's required for steam and proton to see hdr. Maybe needs gamescope I dunno.
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