• Bro666@lemmy.kde.socialM
    171·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • David Sugar@floss.social
    5·
    2 years ago

    @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social 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.

    • skookumasfrig@sopuli.xyz
      31·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • Sina@beehaw.org
      1·
      2 years ago

      I used to think it might 2026 (the first year after Windows 10’s demise), but seeing how increasingly shit Windows 10 is update after update, (weren’t they only supposed to be security patches now?) they might just force an unprecedented number of ppl to switch.

  • David Sugar@floss.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social 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.

  • superkret@feddit.de
    35·
    2 years ago

    I’d love Plasma if they removed like 2/3 of the options and made the default look a bit more modern.
    Gnome is a little too minimalist for my taste, but the default is good enough.
    Getting Plasma to behave and look in a way that doesn’t annoy me is possible without installing anything extra, but it’s a chore. And I hate that bouncing loading cursor with a passion.
    I’m genuinely glad there’s an alternative to Gnome, though.

    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      2 years ago

      if you like the current look, then you wouldn’t even have to see the options, because you wouldn’t be trying to customize it.

      but you’re arrogant enough to assume that if you don’t need them, then I shouldn’t either

    • ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub
      3·
      2 years ago

      The point of kde plasma is extensive customizability and aesthetics at the cost of performance. I don’t like default kde, but after tweaking everything with kvantum manager I can’t go back

      • Bro666@lemmy.kde.socialM
        6·
        1 year ago

        There is no sacrifice of performance. Plasma is one of the lighter desktops out there and having lots of options does not impact that. We are also increasing efficiency across the board thanks to the Eco project.