I recently tried plasma after xfce and damn ! That shit is slick af, ut's so polished and satisfying to use ! Also the krita on kde experience is just incredible
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It's really stunning these days, super professional and clean, and really good themes actually too.
They are doing amazing work. Love Plasma!
Meanwhile "per monitor workspaces" have been requested almost 20 years ago and are a dealbreaker for many users...
Oh damn that's actually something I want
I really like being able to disable the mute-sound button on the task icons, since I sometimes misclick on them during meetings... And once I had apparently done that and turned off the sound for slack, so my huddle didn't have any sound. Took me like 15 mins to find the reason since I thought it had to do with pulseaudio...
This one threw me off. I'd muted discord by mistake. Weirdly voice still works. I spent ages checking and double checking settings to see why I wasn't getting notification sounds and the ptt sound. Dismissing any mute possibility because voice was working.
When I found it was this....
IIRC it is possible to disable the indicators altogether, although that may or may not be an acceptable solution to you. For me it was worth the trade-off because of exactly this reason.
I tried to find where it was but can't find it...
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Is decent stability included? I very much doubt so.
Yes, it never crashes anymore at all for me. Lots of work went into stability and bug fixes in plasma version 6.
So please don't try it on Debian stable or something. Use the latest version!
FYI I try it on Arch Linux.
I daily drive Plasma 6 Wayland on Archlinux based distro (EndeavourOS). Its the most stable KDE I have ever used. Before that I was using since Plasma 5 X11 on same distro and switched to Wayland when 6 became available. Unless you have some issues that are specific to your setup, it works surprisingly well. I even use an auto tiler addon and added a second monitor (ok the monitor is since today :D).
All in all, its stable after the 2 big updates that focused on stability since 6 launched.
KDE always gets more stable after a lot of minor updater. But it can't be completely stable and then big updates ruin everything anyways. KDE has a ridiculous update model for a serious project. There's not enough testing.
Compared to 5.1x days, it's much more stable on Arch Linux. I haven't had issues since 6.2 I think (always on latest)
Good for you and have fun.
It is.
I don't want features, I want the session restoration in Wayland to work properly 😭
Me too, there are a lot of bug fixes here though. Anyways, has that ever worked for anyone?
What actually is not working?
Bringing up all the stuff you had open the next time you log in.
Edit: it's the manual session save feature that's broken: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436318
It does open all apps for me. But probably not in the previous state. But idk if that's actually possible?
How did you do it? For example if I keep some apps open and reboot it should reopen them at startup, right? I tried that and it didn't work, but maybe I configured something wrong
Nah there is a save session button. You can save a session when certain apps are open, then on login thoose apps will open
Oh ok, gotta try that, but does that mean that this only works while maintaining the PC on?
No it works always. It also does multiple times for me(opens thoose apps again on each login)
Are you using 6.0? And in Wayland?
6.1 i guess. Iirc it worked on 6.0 as well. Yes wayland on fedora kde
it was this one: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436318
I had it backwards, it's the manual session save/restore that does not work.
It looks like it's waiting for an internal feature, and that the current (working) auto save/restore feature is a placeholder hack and will also be replaced by said feature.
Good to know it is possible to open the apps in previous state.I don't use save session that often, but it does "launch" apps