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.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Congrats on the release, great to see KDE going from strength to strength. I like the subtle changes to the breeze theme.
@[email protected] @[email protected] what is that?
@jocarren @[email protected] @[email protected] Nextcloud integration icon saying everything is synced
Nextcloud integration app. The tick means everything is syncronized.
@jocarren @[email protected] @[email protected] Weather forecast?
@[email protected] @[email protected] Congratulations on this milestone! Been hearing positive feedback from people who’ve used it already, can’t wait to get my own hands on it :ablobcatbongo:
@kde @[email protected] The cube! 🧊😄👏
LONG LIVE KDE!
Kdenlive will automatically let you know when there is an update available without even requiring an internet connection.
What? How? Will it check the local package manager database?
New versions of Kdenlive is released at regular intervals. When release day comes around, you’ll get a notification.
Makes sense, but I’m fairly sure that would be a February 2024 release :)
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
@[email protected] @[email protected] Can someone explain to me why having a cube to rotate is better than the classic desktop switching views? 🤔
@unlucio @[email protected] @[email protected] well its one of those classic features people wanted back. Probably because its fun and visually appealling
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
@unlucio @[email protected] @[email protected] 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.
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.
@[email protected] @[email protected] the alt text on the third screenshot is wrong, should be gwenview
@[email protected] @[email protected] I’m running debian 12 on my laptop… and I move move over to this soon. How easy is it to remove all that padding around the taskbar and such? I imagine the old themes still work, but I’ll take a look. It’s pretty otherwise.
@ward @[email protected] @[email protected] you can disable the floating panel in Edit Mode
edit: for the record, a floating panel will revert to non-floating mode if a window touches it
If I remember right old themes do need a port
@[email protected] @[email protected] oooooooooooo hell yeah
@[email protected] @[email protected] Congrats 👏🎉 !
@[email protected] @[email protected] desktop cube?!?!
A fancy new overview!
@[email protected] @[email protected] Can I use my Gmail account in Kmail now?
@[email protected] @[email protected] 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 @[email protected] yeah the new wizard had to be completely rewritten for Qt6 and still requires a bit of work and testing with various email providers. 😔
I thought it was working years ago via IMAP. Is that not working now or do you mean using another method?
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.
@[email protected] 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.
My son impressed his friends with wobbly windows the other day. Got to introduce him to the cube.
