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[–] Dreyns@lemmy.ml 46 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I recently tried plasma after xfce and damn ! That shit is slick af, ut's so polished and satisfying to use ! Also the krita on kde experience is just incredible

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Try KDE Connect if you've got an android phone, it's pretty cool. I had to tweak the notification settings on my phone to get it to work the way I wanted, but ymmv, I'm just saying this because I'm usually happy with the KDE default settings (at least the Bazzite KDE default, I'm not sure how much the Bazzite team has changed their DEs).

[–] Dreyns@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yes kde connect is really cool, i like to put on some music before bead and this way i can skip and tweak the sound ! Very useful!

[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You can even install KDE connect on windows though, I imagine its pretty DE agnostic.

[–] dan@upvote.au 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There's quite a few KDE apps that work on Windows. I think they're trying to position KDE as a provider of high-quality cross-platform open-source apps, rather than being limited to just Linux.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 8 points 6 days ago

It's really stunning these days, super professional and clean, and really good themes actually too.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 17 points 6 days ago

They are doing amazing work. Love Plasma!

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Lots of nice changes here, it's been a busy week

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I really like being able to disable the mute-sound button on the task icons, since I sometimes misclick on them during meetings... And once I had apparently done that and turned off the sound for slack, so my huddle didn't have any sound. Took me like 15 mins to find the reason since I thought it had to do with pulseaudio...

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 7 points 6 days ago

This one threw me off. I'd muted discord by mistake. Weirdly voice still works. I spent ages checking and double checking settings to see why I wasn't getting notification sounds and the ptt sound. Dismissing any mute possibility because voice was working.

When I found it was this....

[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

IIRC it is possible to disable the indicators altogether, although that may or may not be an acceptable solution to you. For me it was worth the trade-off because of exactly this reason.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago

I tried to find where it was but can't find it...

[–] adamnejm@programming.dev 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Meanwhile "per monitor workspaces" have been requested almost 20 years ago and are a dealbreaker for many users...

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

honestly I would be for same monitor configurations myself

having to do the same setup on all 3 is so annoying

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

Oh damn that's actually something I want

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't want features, I want the session restoration in Wayland to work properly 😭

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Me too, there are a lot of bug fixes here though. Anyways, has that ever worked for anyone?

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What actually is not working?

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Bringing up all the stuff you had open the next time you log in.
Edit: it's the manual session save feature that's broken: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436318

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It does open all apps for me. But probably not in the previous state. But idk if that's actually possible?

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How did you do it? For example if I keep some apps open and reboot it should reopen them at startup, right? I tried that and it didn't work, but maybe I configured something wrong

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nah there is a save session button. You can save a session when certain apps are open, then on login thoose apps will open

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh ok, gotta try that, but does that mean that this only works while maintaining the PC on?

No it works always. It also does multiple times for me(opens thoose apps again on each login)

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

6.1 i guess. Iirc it worked on 6.0 as well. Yes wayland on fedora kde

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

it was this one: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436318
I had it backwards, it's the manual session save/restore that does not work.
It looks like it's waiting for an internal feature, and that the current (working) auto save/restore feature is a placeholder hack and will also be replaced by said feature.

Good to know it is possible to open the apps in previous state.I don't use save session that often, but it does "launch" apps