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This Week in Plasma: Everything You Wanted and More (blogs.kde.org)

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[–] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

Gnome likes to remove important APIs from time to time which leads to extensions being broken for an awfull long time after an update and also has all sorts of issues with QT apps, simply because Gnome devs do not want to bother with things they consider not important.

What's your issue with KDE?

EDIT: Typos.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

i can chime in with some actual experience!

my current problems with KDE are

the greeter only accepts my password on the secondary monitor
the compositor shuts down whenever something uses the GPU even though the setting is off
my primary desktop randomly shunts itself to the right, plopping on top of the desktop on the secondary display and leaving a big black void on half my primary until plasmashell is restarted
my panels keep collapsing their content down to the width of a single pixel until i resize them
Wayland just crashloops and is completely unusable (no, i don't have an nvidia card)
i still can't get the acrylic transparency to work :(

and what's fun about this is, the issues are so intermittent and random that i never know what i'm going to get on a given day!

[–] krimson@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I really appreciate the work and time the volunteer devs put in, but everytime I try KDE I have to give up because of some workflow breaking bug. Window rules disappearing into thin air, context menu's not rendering properly, power management not consistent, widget search freezing, random crashes. the list goes on. This has been the case with every major KDE release I tried and yes I have reported my fair share of bugs but it seems the priority lies with adding new features instead of fixing old ones which is a shame imo.

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

the window rules one really fucks me up.

It stopped working at the beginning of the year for me and nobody gave a shit about the bug reports.

Now I have to keep juggling windows and their sizes every day like a caveman.

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