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.
*crickets chirping*.
More seriously, I wish Neon would provide repositories for Debian unstable and testing.
Turkeysteaks Mar 8
Worked again when switching to X11, though X11 has its own problems with remote play and certain games. Plus, I just much prefer Wayland ever since I switched to an AMD card.
That aside, excited to try out some of the improvements this brings along.
But at least it doesn't crash constantly like Plasma 5 did on release, so that's a positive I guess.
EDIT: And I now need to go and configure single-click to open... I'm halfway tempted to ask a refund for the money I donated.
Last edited by tmtvl on 8 March 2024 at 3:10 pm UTC
Holzkohlen Mar 8
Quoting: tmtvlEDIT: And I now need to go and configure single-click to open... I'm halfway tempted to ask a refund for the money I donated.This is sarcastic, right? You don't get anything from a donation. It's not a trade.
KDE has said in multiple places that they were changing the click defaults.
I haven't upgraded my main system yet, but testing the upgrade in a VM went fairly well. I've been kind of excited for Plasma 6.
Quoting: 14This is sarcastic, right? You don't get anything from a donation. It's not a trade.
Yes, it was a joke. I'm not actually gonna ask a refund on my donations just because Plasma 6 is the worst 'upgrade' since GNOME 3. And hey, I get it: they want new users so if they feel like they have to tell the old users to go fuck themselves so be it. It's fine, I just get irked when that happens.
Plintslîcho Mar 10
Oh yeah, and I really like the floating panel(s) and how they can be configures to automatically hide when a window goes full screen.
I'll stick with Plasma 6 for the time being. I may check Gnome again when they implement fractional scaling. But for now, I'm happy with this new Plasma release.
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