Plasma 6 Release Candidate 1 has landed.

We are less than 50 days away from the final version of #Plasma6.

Along with Frameworks 6 and KDE Gear 24.02, the Megarelaease on the 28th of February will be one of the biggest and more complex upgrades in KDE’s history.

One more RC will be released on the 31st of January and then it will be (hopefully) clear sailing until the final release.

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/rc1/

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  • KDEOP
    36•6 months ago

    @kde@lemmy.kde.social

    IMPORTANT

    Please note that release candidates, although often called “sneak peeks”, are still work in progress and must be installed and used with extreme care. They will contain bugs, some of which may still be critical. Do not use this software in production environments. Use for testing only.

  • Dojan
    7•6 months ago

    That looks really sleek! I always liked how smooth an experience KDE was back when I used it.

      • @heliumlake@lemmy.world
        2•6 months ago

        As silly as it sounds, the new taskbar modification pop up. Dragging the taskbar from one side of the screen to another was a point of jank that took away from the polish of the desktop. The floating panel retaining proper proportions upon maximizing windows is also a nice fix.

        I think I’m most looking forward to Plasma becoming more polished overall. I like that this release isn’t completely revolutionary like 4 to 5 was. It’s about removing things that don’t work that well and tightening up what does.

  • @ikidd@lemmy.world
    3•6 months ago

    Is it possible to install 6 as a separate DE so I can swap between stable and this in my DM?

    • aqua
      -6•6 months ago

      @ikidd @kde no. you cannot install multiple DEs without breaking stuff. especially different versions of the same DE. if it is even possible, i would not recommend it.

      • @Bro666MA
        14•6 months ago

        you cannot install multiple DEs without breaking stuff.

        You definitely can. There is no problem on having, say, Plasma, GNOME. XFCE, and so on on the same machine, even on the same partition and switching from one to another from the login menu.

        [it is not a good idea to have] different versions of the same DE

        This, however, is absolutely correct. The overlapping different versions of libraries and other common software would make things very messy indeed.

        • @ikidd@lemmy.world
          2•6 months ago

          Pretty much what I suspected. I was hoping there was a segregation method that was used for development/testing that I was missing.

        • aqua
          0•6 months ago

          @Bro666 well yeah, it is possible to install multiple DEs and it should work just fine. though i wouldn’t really recommend it since the configs will break a lot from the DEs fighting, and you’ll have a lot of redundancy because of the same utilities and apps for different desktops coexisting… not saying it is not possible though, but do it at your own risk

          • @Bro666MA
            1•6 months ago

            i wouldn’t really recommend it since the configs will break a lot from the DEs fighting

            Hm. Yeah, you have to be careful with that. There may be configs with coinciding names. You are right. Be careful @ikidd@lemmy.world ! Do your research.

    • @leopold
      6•6 months ago

      Eventually, I guess. Plasma 5.27 didn’t make it until last November tho, so it’ll take a while.

  • DumbAceDragon
    1•6 months ago

    Will my current plasma 5 themes work or will I need to port them over/find new ones?

    • @1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
      2•6 months ago

      Yeah nah

      It looks just as similar to pretty much any desktop interface of the past 40 years, and openwindows isn’t even the first thing with that design

  • pop
    -7•6 months ago

    @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
    “one of the biggest and more complex upgrades in KDE’s history”

    …there was four… and then all of a sudden there was five… it was so confusing and… I think… now it never stops!!! 😣 😫 😭

    • @Bro666MA
      11•6 months ago

      5 came out… TEN YEARS AGO. I would not call that break neck speed that would give you update whiplash.