2mo ago

Plasma 6.5 is out! Look forward to lots cool stuff

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

Coming to your favorite desktop: cool interface re-designs (rounded corners! Automatic smooth light-to-dark transitions!), features (smart KRunner searches! Pinned clipboard items!) and tons of usability and accessibility improvements.

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- Done, thanks for great desktop environment

Fuzzy search on the start menu was my main issue. No KDE, I wasn't searching for Firwfox...
- Stupid computers, always doing what you tell them, never what you want. Guess that's changing.
  
  Autocorrect/fuzzy search have been available on mobile phones and search engines since what, 10 years? 20?

KRunner, Plasma’s search/launch/unit converter/calculator/“but wait, there’s more” tool, uses fuzzy matching to look up applications. This means that even if you misspell an app’s name, KRunner will probably still find it for you. How search results are ordered has also been improved, and KRunner will start to provide those results after the first character is typed.
Oh nice!
I also didn't know it could do unit conversions lol

WOO looking forward to it. KDE Plasma is the most advanced Linux desktop.

Wow, this is how it's done! Can't wait to install this update.

Are we going to get the CTRL-F4 cube rotation effect that was removed like 4 years ago?
I loved that effect, it was smooth and I used it to show off the cool desktop features of Linux (even though it's worthless, it's nice bling)
- I believe that came back recently! I think it's one of the desktop effects in kwin settings

I’m so happy to have automatic light and dark mode!

Awesome! I can't wait to install it! Any plans for a Miracast solution to be built in? I know that's not an easy protocol to work with.

Great to see work done on the accessibility front!

Do I get my AutoHotKey back yet?
- it never left xorg
  
  I have it installed, but support for it is starting is wane. I'm dogfooding.
  I dug into it a bit, we need the new api to allow a few things and they're not budging. There's enough traction to have X11 on the downslide but not enough force to get them to support the little needs. Too damn big/fast to fork for now.

I don't get it. No AI integration?!

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