Plasma 6.7

7 days ago by Zerush to c/opensource

Plasma 6.7 brings powerful new features to KDE’s classic desktop, and refines its user experience to new levels.
HiTekRedNek 9 points 6 days ago

Long time KDE user. As in "back to the 1990s" long.

A new systemd dependency bothers me.

Why? I run FreeBSD. We have no need for something that started as a service manager and became basically the entire Linux operating system.

BSD is not Linux.

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aim4harmony 8 points 7 days ago

Thanks for sharing. As a Linux newb with a laptop running Fedora, I'm now curious whether I can download and use Plasma 6.7 or will it be distributed with the next Fedora update? 😊

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frongt 18 points 6 days ago

I would just wait for the Fedora folks to pull it in and make it available to you.

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AcornTickler 9 points 6 days ago

It should be available in just a few days at most.

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aim4harmony 2 points 6 days ago

Do you mean as part of Fedora 44 or as an update?

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AcornTickler 11 points 6 days ago

As an update to Fedora 44.

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zstg 2 points 3 days ago

A regular update.

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aim4harmony 2 points 3 days ago

It happened yesterday! ✨

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Ephera 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, it should come with the next Fedora release, which is scheduled for October 20th.

Feature updates, like this new Plasma version, get shipped every half year on Fedora. In between, you mostly just get security and bug fixes...

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AcornTickler 13 points 6 days ago

While that's the case for the Workstation (GNOME), in KDE Plasma version the desktop environment is a rolling release. It shouldn't take more than a a few days, considering their previous Plasma releases.

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plutopos 2 points 6 days ago

Really?? Cool!

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Ephera 1 point 6 days ago

Oh, huh, I saw the release announcement for Fedora 44 explicitly mention Plasma 6.6, so I figured it was tied to the release. 🫠

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Luffy879 3 points 6 days ago path: 0 24288078 24288486 24288749, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 0
glimse 7 points 6 days ago

Sadly didn't fix the one bug that's driven me crazy since switching...

The start menu and krunner needs to stop launching programs before I'm done typing.

Hit start, type "kwr," hit enter. Konsole opens.

Why? Because when I typed "K," it autocompleted to Konsole. And instead of waiting to resolve the remaining characters, it just launches whatever is selected.

Really tired of accidentally opening games when I'm already playing a game

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icelimit 5 points 5 days ago

Why would it ever launch programs before a user has finished specifying? How would one ever run anything other than calculator?

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glimse 3 points 5 days ago

Because - and I'm not defending this behavior - it launches the highlighted program as if you were navigating with arrows

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icelimit 1 point 5 days ago

Oh man that's also terrible. Or a great way to launch 15 programs just by swiping through a list.

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glimse 3 points 5 days ago

It's just the one since the start menu/krunner disappear after launching something.

I just have to wait like 200ms but....I use AutoCAD for a living. I type commands and hit enter thousands of times a day. Really hard habit to break and frankly, I don't want to break it!

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