It’s coming! The date for the big release of KDE’s new desktop environment has been set.
#Plasma6 should land on your computer in February 2024 🤞.
https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/06/september-plasma-6-update/
I think that KDE’s track record shows that devs do not remove stuff just because. Quite the contrary.
But sometimes stuff does get removed and often it is because or it is unmaintained (and been so for a while), or because it is built on some old technology that cannot be replicated in the new environment without a complete rewrite.
In both cases, the reason a feature is discontinued boils down to a lack of resources.
Fortunately, the solution is simple: do your part.
KDE is a porous, grassroots and welcoming community. Join us and become part of the effort to build one of the largest and most diverse collections of end user, publicly-owned, free software projects in existence.
I know, I know: “but I can’t code”, etc., etc. But there are many things you can do to help. You can help organise Akademy 2024, you can translate menus and system messages, you can write documentation, draw wallpapers, design icons, edit videos, support booth staff at events, triage and report bugs, or just donate and contribute to financially supporting devs who still have to hold down pesky day jobs that get in the way of coding for KDE… The list goes on and on.
The point is, regardless of your level of technical knowledge, the more resources you free up elsewhere, the more time the people who do know how to code will have to maintain and translate software and features in the new Plasma 6 environment.
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I’ve recently switched from Gnome to KDE in preperation for Plasma 6. I’m definitely noticing some rough edges even on 5.27, so I’m highly looking forward to 6.00
@[email protected] @[email protected] will Kubuntu 24.04 also use KDE Plasma 6? 🤔
I wouldn’t expect so. Firstly, the deadline for packages getting into a distro is usually several months before the release date, and secondly that they’ll likely (understandably) cautious about an x.0 release for production.
@milliams If Kubuntu 24.04 uses KDE Plasma 6, they could use KDE Plasma 6.1. But we have to follow the best procedure of Kubuntu decision. 👍🏼
@[email protected] @[email protected] Make it Feb 6th to coincide with Plasma 6.
I really couldn’t get into KDE before. I’ll give it another go when 6 comes out.
That’s how I felt with KDE 1 and 2. I left it alone for a while and recently came back to KDE 5 after getting a steam deck and now I’ve switched my desktop to it.
@kde @[email protected] In a sense it feels long overdue, but it also does take time and feels very new…
My question is what happens to Qt5? I feel like it’s because of #KDE it continues to be maintained at all, and yet many other projects still utterly depend on Qt5, even believe they don’t need to migrate to Qt6 or otherwise refuse to. I believe HelloSystems is in this category.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I have a good feeling about this. I think 2024 is going to be the year of the Linux desktop.
Awesome stuff everyone, cheers to KDE ❤️
And here I am looking into swapping KDE for a window manager.
@[email protected] @[email protected] excited! Always loved KDE, but finally made the switch to an AMD GPU this month and finally getting to enjoy kde with Wayland and it so good!(once I disabled freesync on my monitors so my computer would stop crashing)
@[email protected] @[email protected] That’s pretty exciting, but if it needs to bake longer, let us know 😀
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Another rude and disinformed post. Please refer to this.
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@PseudoSpock @Bro666 I am just reading this as an outsider, but I can say that if the first message was something like “I hope this time features are going to be preserved. I still remember the transition from KDE 3, where I lost x, y and z” it would have sounded different than “watch this end up like the KDE 4 fiasco”. In this second sentence I assume that your expectations are already set, for a bad release.
Now I’m genuinely curious: is something important to you being removed from Plasma 6?
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Hooray! Very excited for this
@[email protected] @[email protected] I’ll finally be able to switch to Wayland!
I really miss my keyboard shortcuts… (I use multiple keyboard layouts and the shortcuts aren’t consistent across them - it’s fixed in Qt6)
@kde @[email protected] what I do like from what I have seen of this is the idea, which I love in Xfce, of trying to produce the best possible version of KDE at the time, rather than wasting real user’s time by completely re-imagining and re-inventing what a desktop even means to stroke private egos. That is the difference between greater value construction over time, and it’s continual destruction.
