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Plasma and apps for mobile also getting overhauled for 6. (cdn.masto.host)
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Plasma and apps for mobile also getting overhauled for 6.

It's not only Plasma on the desktop that is getting a new version, as Devin Lin explains in his blog post,

https://espi.dev/posts/2023/12/plasma-mobile-towards-6/

developers are working hard on getting #PlasmaMobile 6 ready for the #megarelease scheduled for February.

#Plasma6

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hear me out... Maybe every app on your desktop doesn't need to start with the same letter.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago

K

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Gwenview, Dolphin, digiKam, AudioTube, Elisa, NeoChat, GCompris...

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Not sure what you're trying to say here.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

KDE apps that don't start with the letter "K". Also, many KDE apps a not tied to any particular desktop or indeed platform.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

@Bro666 @baggins just as a suggestioni: knames are cool, and I miss them

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That's cool and all but none of those apps are in this screen shot?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

K

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Khere kre kther ketters kords kan ktart kith??

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Kver khere

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

For better or for worse, starting every project with a K does make KDE software very recognisable. Their themes don't jam with my setup so I use it as a way to avoid most of them, but it's solid branding. KDE users used to be able to do the same thing with Gnome applications, but Gnome has switched away from that approach.

KOrganizer should just be filed under "o", though. And I don't know what krfb does, but it needs a name users can pronounce.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

"kurrrrfb" not pronounceable for you?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Cool!

What kind of devices would this run on?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I'm not a Linux mobile expert but I think you can get it on a handful of older devices like the OnePlus 6. Limited support sadly since ARM insists on not enforcing UEFI (among other things)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] kdeconnect is one of the best things ever ๐Ÿ’“

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

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I can't say how happy this upgrade makes me. I love this style of home screen so much more than Halcyon (although I understand the reason that needed to exist), and the most common complaint I've heard from people trying out #PlasmaMobile was the stability, so I really feel like this is an important one-two punch for improving #PlasmaMobile.

I'm still looking for ways that I can significantly help #PlaMo out without money or coding skills to spare. Call me if y'all need an icon, ok?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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I have an old phone lying around. How can I try plasma on it?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

@somegeek @[email protected] @[email protected] You can try plasma mobile by installing postmarketos on your phone https://postmarketos.org/

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

@CQL @[email protected] @[email protected]
In the postmarketOS website I saw that my device ( smasung A6 2018) isn't supported. Do you have any suggestions?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

No

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] does kmail works in Plasma Mobile? Can we use it to fetch emails from google for example?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

@itsoulos @[email protected] @[email protected] It works of course, but it's interface isn't mobile friendly at all. Merkuro will be a better fit, it uses the same backend as KMail (Akonadi) anyway.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] Docked mode is exciting! That's the kind of thing I'm looking for. Getting a desktop session on an external monitor when you plug in would be amazing

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Same here. I prefer to do 9/10 tasks on a desktop vs a phone, but sometimes I leave the house to go places. I would love to be able to dock my phone and carry a folding mouse rather than having to manage syncing a device for each stage of portability.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

looks very dope.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] this looks fire

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