Plasma 6.5
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KDE is on the verge of making it big for the general public

How do you make a great desktop into a fantastic desktop? Easy — chip away at the rough bits, polish the good stuff, and add awesomeness. After 29 years of development, KDE’s got the foundation nailed down. Plasma 6.5 is all about fine-tuning, fresh features, and a making everything smooth and sleek for everyone.

Ready to see what’s new? Let’s dive into Plasma 6.5!

Highlights:

  • Automatic Theme Transitions: Configure when your theme will transition from light to dark and back.
  • Caret Text Navigation: Zoom now swoops in to where you type
  • KRunner Fuzzy Search: Even if you type it wrong, KRunner will find it!
  • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
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    14 days ago

    Am I the only one who thinks it looks ugly? Don’t get me wrong, they are improving it in many ways and it’s going in the right direction, plus a ton of features and customizability, but when I look at Gnome I don’t doubt for a second where I want to be.

    • Kami@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      14 days ago

      They are two opposite styles of UI.

      However, KDE has a fuckton of customization possibilities that I have always been dreaming of in GNOME.

      And I’m saying this as a GNOME guy, absolutely zero fanboyism here.

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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        14 days ago

        I don’t think anyone would think you were a fanboy, just beacuse KDE has ton of configuration and customization. That’s the opposite of GNOME. I always think of GNOME like Apple, who decides what you can and cannot do, what you are allowed to. I used GNOME 2, then Unity, then GNOME 3 all the way from Ubuntu 2008 to what, 2020 (I forget when I switched to different distro for the first time).

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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      14 days ago

      You are not the only one. Its a taste. I personally like the KDE look the most, its beautiful to me. No other desktop environment looks this good.

    • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
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      14 days ago

      I also think Gnome is much prettier than KDE but KDE is a fully working desktop environment that does not need extensions to get it to a working state so here I am.

      (Although I would not call KDE ugly)

    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
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      14 days ago

      kde is pretty enough, it’s not exactly trendy but I feel they’re going the best they could do while keeping information density

    • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Yep. Ugly, disjointed in appearance, etc. I set up Debian KDE for a family member moving from windows so it fits. I was impressed that KDE came far from what it was but it very much is like a bucket of bolts to me.

      Gnome in contrast is very put together. Yes, has some quirks but appearance wise is very curated IMO.

      • Echolynx@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        14 days ago

        I’m fairly new and happened to choose KDE for my own taste, but I would argue GNOME is not “fully” polished as per this post. The nits there may be small or mindless to GNOME diehards, but from a design standpoint, they seem pretty… rough.