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inb4 floating taskbar in Windows 12

Accent-colored tinted window headers, touchpad gesture configurability

A near term plan is to make it so you don't have to use any Vulkan layer to make it work, by having gamescope use the protocol directly. After that, add support to all the other clients - Mesa, SDL, glfw, mpv, Krita, Chromium and so on

will there be an easy way to get HDR working with the Steam flatpak for the Plasma 6 launch?

You can run Steam in gamescope, doesn't matter if it's sandboxed or not.

Good idea

from what I understand, you can only have them both installed (or none), not one or the other

You can have only one installed, and Fedora KDE ships this way. If your distro doesn't offer that, it seems like a distro packaging issue.

make it easier to change file associations for common file types

That's in Plasma 6. :)

For me it's definively the new overview effect, I already use it all the time on my Plasma dev session.

As a Board member now, I'll answer this one. To a certain extent I ran for a seat on the Board because I realized that proposing this via a Goal was the wrong place to do it, and the more effective way to push for that change was by being on the Board. And now that I've been elected there, yes I do still want to do it and push for internally where possible. However now that I have a fuller picture of the e.V.'s situation, I realize that there are budgetary concerns that must be met before we do more hiring, and KDE e.V. operates under extremely strict German nonprofit rules that makes it not as simple as it might appear. Now, in an ideal world this person would be effectively self-funding, but we need to make sure we can afford them in the first place! It's a bit of a chicken-egg situation, really.

Note that we've already done a certain amount of professionalizing KDE inasmuch as it means "KDE e.V. itself hires professionals to work on KDE." KDE e.V. now employs multiple technical engineers to work on many areas of the stack, and I want to see this grow even more. But, we need more money, and until we do have that employed professional fundraiser, it's up to existing members of the Board and the community to improve the revenue side of the equation so that it becomes possible! That's why I'm so happy with the progress of the current fundraiser. 700 new members means at least 70,000€ of new recurring yearly income, which is enormous for KDE e.V. If we can keep up this kind of fundraising performance, we can do so much cool stuff in the next few years.

A challenge for integrating with Kvantum is that it isn't great for theming QtQuick due to bugs in our existing creaky theming infrastructure, as well as development direction preferences on the part of Kvantum's maintainer.

One thing we have planned and want to work on during the Plasma 6 lifecycle is a new unified theming system that can apply to all KDE and Qt apps, GTK apps, and Plasma. The idea is to have a new theme that can be directly consumed by Qt's Qstyle (for QtWidgets apps), KDE's QtQuick desktop style (for desktop QtQuick apps), KDE's Plasma style (for Plasma), as well as KDE's GTK theme. Essentially we would end up with a new theming engine and each of the existing themes we have would consume those themes. This would replace the current approach where the C++ QStyle is the central source of truth and our QtQuick desktop style pulls content from it, while our Plasma and GTK themes are totally separate and have to be changed manually.

The new proposal is in fact not unlike how Kvantum already works, but it's not rally made for easy upstreaming and it also uses SVG as the basis for its themes. We'd like to build our own thing and investigate using CSS as the basis for themes.

Needless to say, this is not happening for Plasma 6.0. :) But I'm hoping we can get it done sometime in the next year or three.

Also, is there plans to have KDE connect support making your phone a webcam?

That's an amazing idea! Currently I am using my laptop next to my desktop screens as a sudo webcam :D

offtopic, but why is this comment yellow? never seen that before.

EDIT: Oh wait, I think it's to mark unread comments. Haven't seen that before. Must be a new thing.