This week in KDE: Triple buffering and other sources of amazingness (pointieststick.com)
from MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml to linux@lemmy.ml on 25 May 2024 07:13
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Brickardo@feddit.nl on 25 May 2024 08:53 next collapse

Dolphin now includes a feature to move the selected items into a new folder, all at once

This one feels awkward

Hadriscus@lemm.ee on 25 May 2024 10:02 collapse

Why ?

Brickardo@feddit.nl on 25 May 2024 10:36 collapse

It feels to me that it’s looking to replace the Cut and Paste operations. This makes perfect sense for a tactile device, but I don’t feel like Dolphin is tactile ready - other KDE apps like Index intend to cover that ground instead.

Limitless_screaming@kbin.social on 25 May 2024 11:35 collapse

This isn't a replacement for cut & past. It's for creating a new folder and moving the files into it, not to an existing folder.

boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net on 25 May 2024 09:55 next collapse

System Settings’ Printers page now guides you through the process of installing the system-config-printer package to improve printer detection, if it wasn’t pre-installed by your distro (Mike Noe, Plasma 6.1. Link)

This is really good! It may still be needed for stuff like plasma-workspace-extras, the sddm kcm, the flatpak kcm etc?

boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net on 25 May 2024 10:01 next collapse

System Settings’ Background Services page is no longer actually visible in System Settings by default; everything here is an implementation detail

Sooo… will Plasma convert all these services to systemd services that can actually be disabled in a normal way?

That settings page was always only semi useful as the most important ones were missing. But disabling stuff like Orca, KDEConnect, accessibility, legacy adapters etc. should be possible.

github.com/boredsquirrel/kde-systemd-services

This doesnt work currently as KDE has multiple mechanisms to launch these (and maybe I dont really know how to do systemd stuff)

MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml on 25 May 2024 10:04 collapse

you can still get to it by searching for it in KRunner

boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net on 25 May 2024 10:24 collapse

Yes but normally this is a first step in removing it

Deckweiss@lemmy.world on 25 May 2024 11:26 collapse

You can still do it as a first step.

Since the menu is usually only accessed extremely rarely, it is fine having a slightly more inconvenient way to reach it.

Antiochus@lemmy.one on 25 May 2024 12:12 next collapse

Weren’t the devs also supposed to be adding the ability to rebind the overview to just the super key (like GNOME)? Is that still in the works?

Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de on 25 May 2024 13:03 next collapse

It’s been possible for a long time, but yes, now you can do it intuitively in the shortcuts GUI

D_Air1@lemmy.ml on 26 May 2024 21:07 collapse

I’m beta testing 6.1 on Arch and can confirm that the feature is present and working great.

Wet@lemmy.world on 25 May 2024 18:14 collapse

anyone knows what the sleeping cat in the thumbnail is?

I’ve never seen this widget before

0oWow@lemmy.world on 26 May 2024 02:35 collapse

The comments in the OP link say it’s Catwalk. I don’t know what Catwalk is though. 🙂

Edit: it’s a CPU monitor.

Wet@lemmy.world on 26 May 2024 07:22 collapse

thank you so much!