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#kdeplasma

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Mika

Another banger series of updates by #KDE - especially stoked by the new Animations (config) section, that alone is a huge boost to usability/intuitiveness of #KDEPlasma.

Heck, even some of the other updates are positive (and necessary) UI/UX improvements like highlighting newly installed apps in the app launcher, triggering DND when an app is in fullscreen mode (and focused), informing the user if the mic is muted when an application is trying to use it, and even adding a warning/disclaimer when a user tries to, 'presumably' configure the clipboard system tray icon alone without knowing that under the hood, it's actually affecting the service and why they might not want to do what they're doing (they have to fix this tho long term).

All in all, it's always a good time when Nate Graham is summarising these positive changes up :) NOW I look forward to the day when we'd have a dedicated settings page purely for configuring ALL touchpad gestures.. PLEASE. I'm happy all the drawing tablet folks are getting the love from KDE on #Wayland, but it'd be so nice to have this for the touchpad too considering how many people use these on laptops or even PCs with touchpad i.e. #Apple's Magic Trackpad. For now, these people need to rely on hacky workarounds like using #Touche/#Touchegg, which isn't even meant to work on Wayland (but somehow it does, without none of that one-to-one gesture goodness tho unfortunately).

RE: https://floss.social/users/kde/statuses/114403557090038351

Plasma's launcher adds a flair to newly installed apps
FLOSS.socialKDE (@kde@floss.social)Attached: 3 images This week in Plasma: #Plasma6 labels newly installed apps, checks whether your mic is muted, helps you run apps using your GPU, and much more. https://blogs.kde.org/2025/04/25/this-week-in-plasma-multiple-major-wayland-and-ui-features/
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Jure Repinc :linux: :kde:

Yay, finally all the pieces have come together and I have finally been able to compile Qt 6.9 and @kde Plasma development version (what is to be released as 6.4 in June) for my @bananapi BPI-F3, a RISC-V single-board (mini) computer. Plasma does start and run, but looks like QML/QtQuick applications (which includes the desktop itself) have rendering problems 😞 Qt Widget apps render/run just fine. Now to figure out where the problem is…

Screenshot of the development version of KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop runing on RISC-V mini SBC Banana Pi BPI-F3. Four windows are open: Konsole terminal emulator, Plasma Welcome, Dolphin file manager and Info Center showing system information. Also the application launcher menu is open. Desktop background is all white, panel and application launcher have no icons rendered, there is also almost no rendered content in Plasma Welcome window. Applications based on Qt Widgets render fine, those based on QML/QtQuick have rendering problems.
#Linux#KDE#KDEPlasma
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Raven

Fedora 42 released with KDE Plasma reaching edition status, COSMIC desktop spin, new installer experience with Anaconda WebUI, unification of /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, X86 MIPI camera hardware enablement, optimized binaries for the x86_64 architecture using glibc-hwcaps, and many updated packages

fedoramagazine.org/announcing-

Fedora Magazine · The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is. - Fedora MagazineFedora Linux 42 is officially released. Thank you so much to everyone who works so hard on Fedora and in all of our upstream projects.
#fedora#fedora42#linux
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Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​

In the wee small hours i decided to give #GnomeBoxes another chance as a possible alternative. Chose to install via #flatpak, coz my Host is :archlinux: :kde: :plasma: #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma & i did not wish to risk possible gnome vs plasma file conflicts.

It did a fine job of installing an #ArchLinux VM [which i completed using the latest #ArchInstall v3.0.3], so then in an act of gross stupidity i ridiculously chose to see if it could handle a win10 VM via a 3-yr old ISO i have lying around. As i abandoned windoze "for real" in 2014, i had forgotten the many hours of time-wasting bullshit involved, at the end of which instead of getting something decent, you just get... windoze, ugh.

Anyway, so far it seems that GnomeBoxes is going ok, which makes a nice change as all prior tests of older versions failed to work properly. Doubt though atm that it'll persuade me to give up on #qemu / #kvm / #libvirt / #VirtManager. GB has no facility to Suspend VMs, so they need to be fully shutdown, which is a drag. Also, the FP version does not support USB transfer, which is a bugger, & so far i've not made #SharedFolders work [but think i know why].

The interminable "Preparing to configure windoze, Don't turn off your computer" message.
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