Plasma 6.0 has been released. Check out the new overview, improved colour management, a cleaner theme, more effects, better overall performance, and much more.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Congrats on the release, great to see KDE going from strength to strength. I like the subtle changes to the breeze theme.
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Blur effect is by default?
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I’m so tempted to move to Arch just to have it sooner
I saw its in their testing repos already
Fedora 40 also has it
@const_void tested fedora rawhide in a virtual machine few weeks ago with plasma 6, run well enough
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Sheen, this is the 7th week in a row you’ve reintroduced the desktop cube in class
Isn’t the desktop cube from KDE3? Something like 10 years ago?
@parens It’s been dropped and readded a couple of times during the late versions in the kde5 series due to wayland-related refactors. Or maybe just once and I’m mixing it up with wobbly windows.
Congratulations and thanks to everyone who worked on it!
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yayintensifies]@kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social The cube! 🧊😄👏
Crazy how Fedora will get such a stable Plasma 6 when 40 comes out, nearly 2 months left.
I tested Plasma 6 on rawhide, reported a bunch of bugs and in the end everything was fixed.
Not related, but why do most of the comments here have several user accounts tagged/linked?
Sounds like they’re masto toots?
This is a masto post
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Can someone explain to me why having a cube to rotate is better than the classic desktop switching views? 🤔
It isn’t better or more efficient. Some people think it’s cool. I don’t you don’t. Some think it’s cool and that’s ok.
@unlucio @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social well its one of those classic features people wanted back. Probably because its fun and visually appealling
@unlucio @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Well, it’s a “in the eye of the beholder” situation. Neither is better, it’s just what each person prefers. I quite like the cube, mainly because of the way in which I can perform 4-or-more-way desktop checking.
Apple did something like that, I guess in the first version of fast user switching for OSX.
On the bottom of the page containing the cool rotation animation, they wrote "Because we can.’
For me it made it easier to visualise which desktop had which thing on, so I knew the front face of the cube was my main desktop and my email was on the face to the right.
The default way for some reason never really clicked with me the way the 3d cube did
Awesome, can’t wait to try it out!
Let’s gooo! Can’t wait to install it
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social what is that?
@jocarren @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Weather forecast?
@jocarren @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Nextcloud integration icon saying everything is synced
Nextcloud integration app. The tick means everything is syncronized.
A fancy new overview!
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Can I use my Gmail account in Kmail now?
I thought it was working years ago via IMAP. Is that not working now or do you mean using another method?
@TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.Gmail may have worked with Kmail occasionally in the past. I think sometimes that involved going back to your Google account and telling it to accept an “unsecure” app. To be honest, I wouldn’t do that for an email app.
Elementary has the same problem with its mail app.
Elementary has the same problem with its mail app.
Because the problem is Google not wanting third party apps accessing their service.
Edit: In other news, I just tried it and GMail works just fine with KMail. Setting up is a three step process and automatic most of the way.
@Bro666 I tried it on Fedora 40 with Plasma 6. Don’t know if it’s broken there or not. In any case, the account wizard repeatedly showed me a screen with only a back and quit button when the account hadn’t yet been created.
Also kept telling me I had set up 2 accounts and asking if I’d like to unify them.
Google eliminated IMAP years ago in favor of OAuth and their API. Thunderbird kept up, I think. KMail didn’t
Im using my gmail account in kmail literally right now, what do you mean?
Teach me your ways, senpai. I’ve tried and couldn’t get it to work.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Apparently, the answer is “No, I can’t use Gmail with Kmail in Plasma 6”.
Booted the current Fedora 40 nightly KDE ISO. Using “Online Accounts” did not set up my Gmail account in Kmail. Kmail found the account in Mozilla’s database when I tried to create directly in Kmail. I was led through a dialog that ended with a display of server info with a “Previous” and a “Quit” button. The account was not created. #KDE #Plasma6
@Corb_The_Lesser @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social yeah the new wizard had to be completely rewritten for Qt6 and still requires a bit of work and testing with various email providers. 😔
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Congrats!
