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This week in Plasma: Stabilization for 6.2 (pointieststick.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Don't see mention of fixes for the resume-from-sleep bugs that have been around since at least 6 :'(

[+] [email protected] -12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I don't really get why the KDE guys still insist on this atrocious lack of padding / spacing between UI elements. Even Microsoft figured this out by now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Some people (like me) like having a more compact layout

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Yes, I can't begin to express how much I love 5 cm of whitespace between every setting on Windows Settings pages.

Thanks, Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because you can customize all of that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Defaults matter, most people never bother customizing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Agreed. The great defaults in Plasma definitely are a major draw for me.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Skill issue

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Not for KDE which aims to be good for beginners.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah sorta. First you gotta know what the problem is, good luck getting the average user to figure out the UI looks off because of the padding. Then you gotta know where and how you need to change it to make it better.

Customizing is cool for power users that like to fiddle with their settings, however it can't replace good defaults; not that I have anything against the defaults in this case...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sharing a file to your device via KDE Connect no longer breaks after the first time you do it until the app you shared the file from is restarted

Yeeeees!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh thank you, finally. KDE connect has been pretty much useless since its Inception because of these things

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I think this is a YMMV kind of thing because it has always worked for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I used it like 10 minutes ago lol, it is indeed useful and just got an upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Finally, ~/Templates support!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

You mean one of those 6 folders that I delete as soon as I start up a new install?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

It's a great addition. It's a surprisingly powerful aspect of gnome that nobody, not even Gnome, ever seem to talk about.

They really should place a text file in that folder to explain how it works (and of course exempt it as being used as a template)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just ran through that list of bugs and don't see my issue that happens all the time. I guess I'll have to add a ticket.

My bug is when minimizing and restoring windows (fedora plasma 6 latest version), the first time or two it is smooth, but a few more times and it gets really jerky. It acts like a memory leak somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It can be a theme or a plugin issue.