MartinR

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Another 6 weeks have passed, another bugfix release for Plasma 5.27 has been made. The next one is scheduled for September 12th

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I don't think many of those removals will have any impact on power consumption - at least not unless you're using them right now. Removing a non-default task switcher (if you don't use that currently) or theme (e.g. "Plasma Air") will help with maintainability of the code and more time for other work than hunting down issues in that task switcher or theme, though. This might result in freeing up time to work on other stuff. So, indirectly: it's possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've had a quick look at the code, there doesn't seem to be a way to change the "default" currencies, they are hardcoded. See https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kunitconversion/-/blob/master/src/currency.cpp and search for "addCommonUnit" and "addDefaultUnit".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can specify your target (e.g. 11 USD in INR should work), however I don't know how to change the defaults or if KRunner is "smart" enough to automatically include INR in those conversions.

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

I'm not sure (not the author) and I think syncing config is a lot more difficult than it would seem at first glance. Eg Panel Layout: Imagine syncing between a multi-monitor-setup (work PC) and a single-monitor-setup (Laptop) - how's that supposed to work? The panel might be on the second screen on the PC, but once synchronized to the Laptop, that would mean either

  • missing panel (off screen)
  • double panel (stacked on top of each other)
  • hidden second panel (one below the other)
  • ...

Syncing .config would (at first glance) work best for device independent settings (e.g.: Indentation in Kate with Tabs vs. Spaces) - but even "fonts" in Kate might already not be a good idea, as a font might not be installed in both systems (and it might get worse with font-sizes, scale-factors...)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The proposal isn't mine, I just read and shared it :-) The blog post has a paragraph or two about multpile subfolders, as I read it, the specification is not clear on whether thats supported? But actually: at first glance I think this would be better to have, because it would possibly make synchronizing to a new PC/Laptop even easier. However, this only works if any machine-specific settings (e.g. "offset /size of window") are not stored in config, as that might break if you sync config between a multi-monitor setup and a single-monitor setup. This requires a lot of thought...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just for clarification: this would be a one-time process per application, right? I'm sure this will work for 99% of users, but there'll always be the one (or a couple of users) that synchronizes their .config directory, then doesn't update all machines at the same time and all hell breaks loose - a.k.a https://xkcd.com/1172/ :-) But I'd say that's probably not worth losing the advantages of a cleaner .config-directory, so this might be one of those "tough-luck" situations... 🤷

 

There's a proposal at the linked blog post for how to clean up the config directory.

The post goes into detail which changes would be required in KDE software using Qt.

After reading, I just have one question (the blog does not seem to have a comment section): how does this handle transitioning from the old location to the new location? Imagine having a katerc config file under ~/.config and one under ~/.config/kate (which is the suggestion from the post) - should those be merged once and then the old one gets deleted?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you're interested in the full change log, see https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/23.04.3/

 

Crossposted from: https://feddit.de/post/1323288

You can now test version 6 of KDEs Plasma Desktop by using the unstable edition of KDE Neon. Not all distributions offer an easy way of installing Plasma 6, for now (for good reasons, too).

I only know of one other distribution, that offers an easy way of testing a Plasma 6 version: KaOS: https://kaosx.us/news/2023/kaos04/ (Feel free to add comments to other distributions or e.g. wiki pages with easy installation instructions).

Be aware that in any of the above versions, there will very likely be lots of (smaller and bigger) bugs, as this isn't even considered an Alpha-Release, yet, and still heavily in development.

 

You can now test version 6 of KDEs Plasma Desktop by using the unstable edition of KDE Neon. Not all distributions offer an easy way of installing Plasma 6, for now (for good reasons, too).

I only know of one other distribution, that offers an easy way of testing a Plasma 6 version: KaOS: https://kaosx.us/news/2023/kaos04/ (Feel free to add comments to other distributions or e.g. wiki pages with easy installation instructions).

Be aware that in any of the above versions, there will very likely be lots of (smaller and bigger) bugs, as this isn't even considered an Alpha-Release, yet, and still heavily in development.