Plasma 6.0 has been released. Check out the new overview, improved colour management, a cleaner theme, more effects, better overall performance, and much more.

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@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Can I use my Gmail account in Kmail now?

If you're willing to try the kde-unstable repo until its out, you can try it today. A few things are broken but they're not showstoppers and mostly graphical (i also havent been able to use my computer today so i dont know if a lot of it got fixed with today's release.)

Fedora 40 also has it

@zestygrass @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I’m waiting for it on my endeavouros install

Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.

If I remember right old themes do need a port

@ward @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social you can disable the floating panel in Edit Mode

edit: for the record, a floating panel will revert to non-floating mode if a window touches it

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I'm excited to try it out in a few months when it hits the repos 💖

It's in the testing repo right now, but I'd expect it in the main repo pretty soon. End of the week, give or take.

It isn't better or more efficient. Some people think it's cool. I don't you don't. Some think it's cool and that's ok.

@unlucio @kde @kde do you not remember how cool Compiz was ? How it made the Mac users jealous and the Windows users weep
#geek

For me it made it easier to visualise which desktop had which thing on, so I knew the front face of the cube was my main desktop and my email was on the face to the right.

The default way for some reason never really clicked with me the way the 3d cube did

@unlucio @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social well its one of those classic features people wanted back. Probably because its fun and visually appealling

Apple did something like that, I guess in the first version of fast user switching for OSX.

On the bottom of the page containing the cool rotation animation, they wrote "Because we can.'

@unlucio @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Well, it's a "in the eye of the beholder" situation. Neither is better, it's just what each person prefers. I quite like the cube, mainly because of the way in which I can perform 4-or-more-way desktop checking.

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

thanks for all the answers, long story short seems like the reason might be "aesthetics".

Personally, I'm happy if something works great, and is also visually pleasant, but I'd never

"Sacrifice speed and efficiency on the altar of beauty"

New versions of Kdenlive are released at regular intervals. When release day comes around, you'll get a notification.

@baduhai @kde because the version number follow the date. So if you are running 24.02.5 (published around May 2024) in 2026 something is wrong :)

That is my laptop. It is the Nextcloud integration app. The tick means everything is synchronized.

@jocarren @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Nextcloud integration icon saying everything is synced

@jocarren @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Weather forecast?

KDE has a schedule for its major releases.

That's Cyberpunk 2077.

Not the GPU itself but rather its drivers. Plasma 6 flies on potatoe laptop integrated graphics in power saving mode.

I'd say the GTX 960 is unlikely to be the bottleneck. Plasma really does not need a recent GPU.

I run KDE 6 on Core 2 Duo with Nvidia 9400/nouveau.

@shanesemler @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social For what it's worth: I still run KDE Plasma 5 on a core 2 duo and a period correct low tier gpu, it won't blow your socks off, but it works fine, and i have no reason to believe that 6 should perform worse.