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Is there some sort of overall vision doc for KDE 6? What are they building towards? I find 5 so good have a bit of trouble imagining where they'll go to improve
Plasma 6 is built using QT 6, currently plasma 5 is using QT5. This is a huge effort to move the code to the new version of QT but it brings many improvements behind the scenes. Once this is done a lot of the code is going to be cleaner and more maintainable, which should translate to a smoother user experience.
Here's the plasma 6 wiki: https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_6#Work_that's_been_decided_on_but_not_implemented_yet
This is super helpful, thanks!
afik they are rebasing on qt6, which fixes a lot of issues with Wayland due to Wayland not being thought of during the development of qt5. Correct me if I'm wrong though
Thanks!