Members of the Plasma team have been working hard to continue making Plasma a lightweight and responsive desktop which loads and runs quickly, but remains full-featured with a polished look and feel. We have spent the last four months optimising startup and minimising memory usage, yielding faster time-to-desktop, better runtime performance and less memory consumption. Basic features like panel popups were optimised to make sure they run smoothly even on the lowest-end hardware. Our design teams have not rested either, producing beautiful new integrated lock and login screen graphics.
New in Plasma 5.13
>Plasma Browser Integration >System Settings Redesigns >New Look for Lock and Login Screens >Graphics Compositor >Discover improvements
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Other changes include:
>A tech preview of GTK global menu integration. >Redesigned Media Player Widget. >Plasma Calendar plugin for astronomical events, currently showing: lunar phases & astronomical seasons (equinox, solstices). >xdg-desktop-portal-kde, used to give desktop integration for Flatpak and Snap applications, gained support for screenshot and screencast portals. >The Digital Clock widget allows copying the current date and time to the clipboard. >The notification popup has a button to clear the history. >More KRunner plugins to provide easy access to Konsole profiles and the character picker. >The Mouse System Settings page has been rewritten for libinput support on X and Wayland. >Plasma Vault has a new CryFS backend, commands to remotely close open vaults with KDE Connect, offline vaults, a more polished interface and better error reporting. >A new dialog pops up when you first plug in an external monitor so you can easily configure how it should be positioned. >Plasma gained the ability to fall back to a software rendering if OpenGL drivers unexpectedly fail.
What about it? They made the font smaller somewhat recently
Jonathan Perez
>>Discover improvements about time, sometimes it doesn't install the package because of dependencies
Kayden Reyes
KDE uses more than twice the RAM than Xfce
>Plasma lightweight Of course not, Lol
Noah Adams
talking about kde memes, what about the calculator one? never understood it
I press space+alt and type a calculation and done
John Allen
currently using gnome with dash to panel, i'm happy with it and never had any problem but lately plasma is looking very good, kde connect and the vault thing sounds interesting. I'm seriously thinking about switching, which one should i try, kubuntu or kde neon?
maybe go neon when they switch to the new ubuntu LTS I personally will be moving back to Manjaro soon I have been using opensuse for about a month
Hudson Howard
X11/X.org or only wey-land? Oh, both. Fucking based germans >The Mouse System Settings page has been rewritten for libinput support on X and Wayland. But will it support xf86-synaptics (same settings as I'm used to?)
Wyatt Thomas
don't know much about linux but kde seems to have the best file manager, can you easily install it on other distros without breaking things?
Xavier Howard
Werks on my suse
Jeremiah Gonzalez
Suse or neon?
Easton Morris
opensuse repos never have the package you want
Jason Clark
That's why you use packman
Kayden Young
xfce or xubuntu ?
Jackson Jones
Reminder that lxqt exists.
Andrew Nelson
gnome is garbage not because of it's design but because it's bugs are not fixed for YEARS nautilus using more than half a gig of ram is not normal
Brayden Smith
IS KDE neon still 16.04 based?
Lucas Reed
Botnet
Mason Martinez
Non-interger scaling yay or nay
Aiden Lopez
Nay, Qt doesn't officially support it so even if you can set it there will be occasional scaling issues here and there.
Henry Wright
It is normal if it's caching 400MB of thumbnails
Asher Flores
Thanks Konqi!
Henry Gray
Repository 'X11:Bumblebee' is up to date. Repository 'home:ckrissun' is up to date. Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-20180326-0' metadata Building repository 'openSUSE-20180326-0' cache Retrieving repository 'packman' metadata Building repository 'packman' cache Retrieving repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss' metadata Building repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss' cache Repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update' is up to date. All repositories have been refreshed. Even with that its still lacking
Easton Gutierrez
They will just remove thumbnails entirely that way they can kill two birds with one stone and fix the file picker meme
Christopher Hall
1.5 scaling works perfectly for me...some icons turn pixelated but nothing too ugly or dysfunctional
Brody Long
The clock is just a widget. Remove it from the panel and replace is with a widget called "Simple Date and Time." It is much smaller and looks a lot nicer.
Jordan Nguyen
openSUSE
Ethan Powell
Sorry I meant to say "under Wayland" - I love KDE but I've been away from Linux because nothing looks good on my X1
Jacob Diaz
for gnome maybe
pcmanfm works the folders with 100megabytes at most AND shows them instantly unlike nautilus which either moves them all over the place or takes forever to load EVERY time
Oliver Wilson
>DE uses more than twice the RAM than Xfce You didn't open a single link, did you? And your great argument is still "no, lol".
Lincoln Butler
it uses less ram than xubuntu but still more than xfce
Xavier Cruz
if you'd read the announcement, you'd know it. in short: yes
James Cooper
Why KDE add features and Gnome remove features?
Liam Walker
> New in Plasma 5.13 >> Graphics Compositor what the fuck, user?
Cooper Wright
>Graphics Compositor >Our compositor KWin gained much-improved effects for blur and desktop switching. Wayland work continued, with the return of window rules, the use of high priority EGL Contexts, and initial support for screencasts and desktop sharing.
Kayden Wilson
Currently yes, but I've been watching their build service and todos and there's practically nothing left holding back the upgrade.
Ethan Perez
KDE was literally designed for tablets. It's perfect.
460MB from a fresh boot. Fuck all in 2018. You could probably go lower than that if you compile your own on Gentoo and disable shit you don't use.
>but muh tinywm setup uses only $(free) bytes! I'm really happy for you, but keep in mind KDE is a full fledged DE with all sorts of eye candy and truckload of features.
>they need to do something about that clock You can easily do something about that by yourself. There are multiple ways to get your super custom l33t 8pt bitmap font. by editing one value in the qml file for the clock, by download one of the custom clocks from the store or by shoving a dragon dildo up your ass.
Carson Parker
God this, i have thousands of porn comics sorted with tags in dolphin that opens the folder instantly with thumbs dynamically loaded while nautilus chockes on it for minutes until it even tries to start to load the thumbnails. Fucking pos should just be scrapped.
Sebastian Ross
This is hot
Nolan Barnes
like what?
Daniel Jackson
>cuckmon
Brandon Perez
>Yet this still exists. Where?
Juan Taylor
On my setup I found it to large, just make it smaller
