• @Bro666MA
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    I think that KDE’s track record shows that devs do not remove stuff just because. Quite the contrary.

    But sometimes stuff does get removed and often it is because or it is unmaintained (and been so for a while), or because it is built on some old technology that cannot be replicated in the new environment without a complete rewrite.

    In both cases, the reason a feature is discontinued boils down to a lack of resources.

    Fortunately, the solution is simple: do your part.

    KDE is a porous, grassroots and welcoming community. Join us and become part of the effort to build one of the largest and most diverse collections of end user, publicly-owned, free software projects in existence.

    I know, I know: “but I can’t code”, etc., etc. But there are many things you can do to help. You can help organise Akademy 2024, you can translate menus and system messages, you can write documentation, draw wallpapers, design icons, edit videos, support booth staff at events, triage and report bugs, or just donate and contribute to financially supporting devs who still have to hold down pesky day jobs that get in the way of coding for KDE… The list goes on and on.

    The point is, regardless of your level of technical knowledge, the more resources you free up elsewhere, the more time the people who do know how to code will have to maintain and translate software and features in the new Plasma 6 environment.

  • @H2207@lemmy.world
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    I’ve recently switched from Gnome to KDE in preperation for Plasma 6. I’m definitely noticing some rough edges even on 5.27, so I’m highly looking forward to 6.00

    • @skookumasfrig@sopuli.xyz
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      That’s how I felt with KDE 1 and 2. I left it alone for a while and recently came back to KDE 5 after getting a steam deck and now I’ve switched my desktop to it.

  • David Sugar
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    @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social In a sense it feels long overdue, but it also does take time and feels very new…

    My question is what happens to Qt5? I feel like it’s because of #KDE it continues to be maintained at all, and yet many other projects still utterly depend on Qt5, even believe they don’t need to migrate to Qt6 or otherwise refuse to. I believe HelloSystems is in this category.

    • @milliams@lemmy.world
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      I wouldn’t expect so. Firstly, the deadline for packages getting into a distro is usually several months before the release date, and secondly that they’ll likely (understandably) cautious about an x.0 release for production.

      • William Andrew Conna
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        @milliams If Kubuntu 24.04 uses KDE Plasma 6, they could use KDE Plasma 6.1. But we have to follow the best procedure of Kubuntu decision. 👍🏼

    • @Sina@beehaw.org
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      I used to think it might 2026 (the first year after Windows 10’s demise), but seeing how increasingly shit Windows 10 is update after update, (weren’t they only supposed to be security patches now?) they might just force an unprecedented number of ppl to switch.

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    @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social excited! Always loved KDE, but finally made the switch to an AMD GPU this month and finally getting to enjoy kde with Wayland and it so good!(once I disabled freesync on my monitors so my computer would stop crashing)

    • @Bro666MA
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      Another rude and disinformed post. Please refer to this.

        • noncommutativegeometry
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          @PseudoSpock @Bro666 I am just reading this as an outsider, but I can say that if the first message was something like “I hope this time features are going to be preserved. I still remember the transition from KDE 3, where I lost x, y and z” it would have sounded different than “watch this end up like the KDE 4 fiasco”. In this second sentence I assume that your expectations are already set, for a bad release.

          Now I’m genuinely curious: is something important to you being removed from Plasma 6?

  • David Sugar
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    @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social what I do like from what I have seen of this is the idea, which I love in Xfce, of trying to produce the best possible version of KDE at the time, rather than wasting real user’s time by completely re-imagining and re-inventing what a desktop even means to stroke private egos. That is the difference between greater value construction over time, and it’s continual destruction.