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This Week in Plasma: Everything You Wanted and More (blogs.kde.org)

submitted 1 week ago by MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[+] sunoc@sh.itjust.works -30 points 1 week ago (7 children)

GNOME is rock solid on my device, unlike KDE. What do you mean by that exactly?

[–] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Gnome likes to remove important APIs from time to time which leads to extensions being broken for an awfull long time after an update and also has all sorts of issues with QT apps, simply because Gnome devs do not want to bother with things they consider not important.

What's your issue with KDE?

EDIT: Typos.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

i can chime in with some actual experience!

my current problems with KDE are

the greeter only accepts my password on the secondary monitor
the compositor shuts down whenever something uses the GPU even though the setting is off
my primary desktop randomly shunts itself to the right, plopping on top of the desktop on the secondary display and leaving a big black void on half my primary until plasmashell is restarted
my panels keep collapsing their content down to the width of a single pixel until i resize them
Wayland just crashloops and is completely unusable (no, i don't have an nvidia card)
i still can't get the acrylic transparency to work :(

and what's fun about this is, the issues are so intermittent and random that i never know what i'm going to get on a given day!

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I only get a couple of problems.

A panel that wraps content is sized to one icon when logging in for the first time
Plasma Shell occasionally crashes and restarts

But then, I'm not running a stock plasma, I have a few add-ons compiled from source and a few widgets downloaded from the get new things. One of those could be causing the crash but I haven't proved that yet. I'm fairly sure the panel is a plasma bug.

Edit: Oh and sorting pinned icons in the icons only taskbar is a real pain in wayland.

Edit 2: It seems the sorting has been fixed since I last did it ~~and I haven't had the crash since the last plasma update~~

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