This week in KDE: #Plasma6 is not only gearing up for a big technological shift, but is also adding cool new features and improving the user experience
Look forward to sound themes! Snappier responses! Prettier widgets! More awesome things!
https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/28/this-week-in-kde-sounds-like-plasma-6/
I always enjoy reading the “This week in KDE” posts.
I hope we eventually get the blue light filter on Plasma in Wayland.
Edit: with Nvidia! I hope we get the blue light filter on Plasma in Wayland with Nvidia!
I hope we eventually get the blue light filter on Plasma in Wayland.
Is this different from Night Shift? I thought that was already working in Wayland (unless you mean Nvidia).
I do mean Nvidia.
@HKayn The blue light filter is a built in feature in Plasma Wayland for a long time (it was even for some time a Wayland exclusive feature). Search for “Night color” in the system settings, you don’t even need to install a third party app anymore.
I was referring to the fact that Night Color currently doesn’t work on Wayland with an Nvidia card.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Can we also look forward to improved #accessibility for #disabled users? #blind #VisuallyImpaired #LowVision #disability #a11y #linux #LinuxCommunity #KDE #KDEPlasma #Plasma6
@noahcarver @[email protected]
It is one of our main goals:
https://community.kde.org/Goals
and we are working accessibility design structures into all our software, not only the desktop.
If you have any advice you would like to share, please visit the links and tell us how we should do things.
@[email protected] @[email protected] This is wonderful! Thank you for prioritizing accessibility up front. It’s especially heartening to know that you’re tackling accessibility head on because it has historically been deprioritized in the Linux community at times. Best of luck, and I look forward to testing KDE in the near future.
@[email protected] @[email protected] It would be amazing to also have a sound profile that turns off all sounds. :) Or maybe this already exists and I just didn’t find it.
@[email protected] @[email protected]
Looking forward for Plasma 6 to land up on #Manjaro !!Note Plasma 6 won’t be ready until towards the end of 2023, beginning 2024 😬
@[email protected] @[email protected] but no room for a new talk about going with client side decorations? 🥺
Why would you want to ruin Plasma?
@ChristianWS How would that ruin Plasma?
We are talking about CSD, are we not?
There are quite a number of DEs using CSD, and a couple of them even feature a more “traditional” layout with a button panel and left side app menu.
While some folks like it, at this point one of the defining features of Plasma is the fact that it stands out by not using Server Side Decorations, or GTK for that matter.
Besides, CSD is ugly@ChristianWS CSD can just look like the normal Window+Decoration.
My point is however that KDE can use it to at least put something to the CSD, like the app-menu if visible. Different apps would find different purposes for it and there shouldnt be a hard requirement for it, but optional feature to use for the devs.
CSD is just a ugly as you make it to be. In my opinion SSD is nowadays very out of place, vertical wasted space.
Not really following what you mean.
The moment you allow CSD, apps can and will put whatever they want on there, leading to wildly inconsistency in the number of things there.
CSD will always looks weird cause it takes too much vertical space. It will never look as good as a normal Title Bar, which can be controlled by the server.
You also lose draggable space, as now buttons are taking space.
@ChristianWS It’s not the app that does this. Developer do this, they do this because they think it’s good. The KDE does have a nice visual design group (I was once part of it, So I know :P). It would be possible to define a design guide to follow so apps won’t look out of place, while still are able to make use of CSD.
Plasma doesnt need to look like GNOMEs implementation of a CSD. The visuals are a completely different thing. The technology is the important part at first.Design follows technology and vice-versa. Once you allow devs to use CSD they can and will use that space to put buttons on it, and that inevitably leads to inconsistency between apps, because they will never share the same amount of buttons or be divided by the same amount of panels.
CSD is a Pandora’s box that is best left unopened.
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