Plasma 6.5
kde.org
KDE is on the verge of making it big for the general public

How do you make a great desktop into a fantastic desktop? Easy — chip away at the rough bits, polish the good stuff, and add awesomeness. After 29 years of development, KDE’s got the foundation nailed down. Plasma 6.5 is all about fine-tuning, fresh features, and a making everything smooth and sleek for everyone.

Ready to see what’s new? Let’s dive into Plasma 6.5!

Highlights:

  • Automatic Theme Transitions: Configure when your theme will transition from light to dark and back.
  • Caret Text Navigation: Zoom now swoops in to where you type
  • KRunner Fuzzy Search: Even if you type it wrong, KRunner will find it!
  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    111·
    2 months ago

    What a banger release! Last time they focused on bug hunting, this time its about features. This ping pong focused development is very nice.

    • KRunner Fuzzy Search: Not earth shattering, but welcome. I hope there is a way to dynamically force to enable or disable it. Sometimes fuzzy search can be in the way (I know it from other fuzzy search tools). My recommendation is ~ character to toggle the functionality: "~file" to enable fuzzy in example, if its disabled by default. I may even make a suggestion in the issue tracker, but I don’t know what options they integrated into it yet.
  • mogoh@lemmy.ml
    71·
    2 months ago

    Every time I try KDE I get burned by some bugs. How is stability?

    Baloo for example was some source of pain for me. And if I look at the bug tracker I do not get confidant. https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&field0-0-1=component&field0-0-2=alias&field0-0-3=short_desc&field0-0-4=status_whiteboard&field0-0-5=content&order=changeddate+DESC%2Cbug_status%2Cpriority%2Cassigned_to%2Cbug_id&query_format=advanced&type0-0-0=substring&type0-0-1=substring&type0-0-2=substring&type0-0-3=substring&type0-0-4=substring&type0-0-5=matches&value0-0-0=baloo&value0-0-1=baloo&value0-0-2=baloo&value0-0-3=baloo&value0-0-4=baloo&value0-0-5="baloo"

    • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      Same. I always try it out and run into some critical bug causing me to abandon it.

      My Linux Mint install with Cinnamon “just works”, so I’ve been sticking with that and hoping Wayland support goes stable soon, because I hate X Server.

  • HeyMrDeadMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    My only beef with KDE is just that there’s always been ‘too much’ of it. Like, every settings screen and right-click context menu just like, goes on for days.

    There needs to be a prominent toggle switch between ‘Turbo Nerd Mode’ and ‘Babby’s First DE’.

  • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
    53·
    2 months ago

    Am I the only one who thinks it looks ugly? Don’t get me wrong, they are improving it in many ways and it’s going in the right direction, plus a ton of features and customizability, but when I look at Gnome I don’t doubt for a second where I want to be.

    • Kami@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      15·
      2 months ago

      They are two opposite styles of UI.

      However, KDE has a fuckton of customization possibilities that I have always been dreaming of in GNOME.

      And I’m saying this as a GNOME guy, absolutely zero fanboyism here.

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
        2·
        2 months ago

        I don’t think anyone would think you were a fanboy, just beacuse KDE has ton of configuration and customization. That’s the opposite of GNOME. I always think of GNOME like Apple, who decides what you can and cannot do, what you are allowed to. I used GNOME 2, then Unity, then GNOME 3 all the way from Ubuntu 2008 to what, 2020 (I forget when I switched to different distro for the first time).

      • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 months ago

        Well, that’s kind of the thing, except for a few things I don’t want to customize it that much, when I’ve tried KDE in the past I just customized it a bit and it looked like shit because I didn’t spend that much time into it. I know you can make it look pretty, but I’d rather waste that time learning how to use Hyperland to be honest since it’s way more customizable and offers something else completely. Except for a better KDE Connect integration I don’t think I’m missing anything I would need on Gnome.

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
      5·
      2 months ago

      You are not the only one. Its a taste. I personally like the KDE look the most, its beautiful to me. No other desktop environment looks this good.

    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 months ago

      kde is pretty enough, it’s not exactly trendy but I feel they’re going the best they could do while keeping information density

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      A colleague always complains that KDE looks like Windows. She does also get jealous, though, when she sees me using poweruser features.

    • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      Yep. Ugly, disjointed in appearance, etc. I set up Debian KDE for a family member moving from windows so it fits. I was impressed that KDE came far from what it was but it very much is like a bucket of bolts to me.

      Gnome in contrast is very put together. Yes, has some quirks but appearance wise is very curated IMO.

  • Uairhahs@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    I guess KDE remembering your previous monitor layout after temporarily switching to built in only for laptops is still too big an ask. Related merge has work done but is indefinitely closed and shelves. What a shame.

      • Uairhahs@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Wayland, Super+P always just bring up every option except second screen above built in display. Had to write my own bash script to more flexibly handle this instead of the native manager.

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    Came to say what most have already: It works already as well / better than Gnome, doesn’t require superduper hardware, stable, why the feck did I wait until 2025 to try it? Not looking back.

  • TechLich@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 months ago

    And Debian Sid is still stuck on 6.3.6 :(

    Hopefully they figure out the qt update thing and get the new version packaged soon?

  • DiamondOrthodox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    219·
    2 months ago

    Unfortunately, KDE is quantity over quality. I like the look and feel for the most part, but out of all the mainstream DEs, I’d say it’s the buggiest. GNOME with too many extensions is absolutely less stable, but vanilla KDE is embarrassing for stability, even on Linux Approved hardware.

    • muhyb@programming.dev
      15·
      2 months ago

      If you knew/remember the first days of KDE 5, it was the buggiest DE ever invented at that time. However nowadays I barely even see any bug in KDE, at least for my use cases. And I’m a WM guy who use KDE out of laziness.

    • suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      I’ve experienced far fewer bugs on KDE than Mint or Cinnamon, and I refuse to use GNOME. What else are you comparing against?

      • DiamondOrthodox@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Cinnamon I’ve found to be buggy too. Panel and wallpaper glitches, black screens on wakeup, to name a few.

      • dinckelman@programming.devEnglish
        32·
        2 months ago

        They are comparing against a mix of “trust me bro” and “i’ve heard that…”. The local classic

        • DiamondOrthodox@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          You’re making assumptions. I’ve used GNOME since 2008, with extensive use of KDE and Cinnamon too in later years. I’ve used other DEs such as XFCE for niche applications. KDE - for me - has always been buggy despite being the most feature rich. This is just my experience. You don’t have to trust me.

          Edit: Currently daily driving COSMIC. It was a little rough in the Alpha stages but it’s now very stable for me.