Icons on the desktop! The minimize button! Visible Panels and docks! Just kidding, don’t have a heart attack. :) Well actually there are some things… just not those! The full list can b…
  • qaz@lemmy.world
    40·
    1 year ago

    This all seems very reasonable, it seems like the plasma team made the right decision to remove semi-broken / obsolete parts, but Unsplash removal because of AI scraping is a bit disappointing.

    • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      There is a wallpaper plugin that grabs pictures from subreddits of your choice, or probably was if they used Reddit’s API. Maybe one could port this to Lemmy or other services.

  • dr_robot@kbin.social
    33·
    1 year ago

    Plasma is amazing. It has been my DE of choice for years now. So happy I’m donating to the project.

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
    18·
    1 year ago

    At first I wanted to “complain” about the removal of the thumbnails task switcher, because I prefer that one. But then I noticed that the thumbnail grid is the same and better! So if you were using what I, maybe the grid version is what you actually want.

    Also, I love the concept that you can put back things that were removed from Plasma without building it all yourself.

    • Hubi@feddit.de
      3·
      1 year ago

      Thanks, I had no idea the “thumbnail grid” existed. I usually hate changing things I use all the time but this one is most definitely an improvement.

  • Ryan@lemmy.world
    18·
    1 year ago

    Can’t say that I’ve really used any of the features mentioned in this list, so doesn’t really affect my experience negatively. Also, updating some icon sets to fit with the overall theme would provide a more unified experience. So two thumbs-up from me for removing code that, by & large, wasn’t getting used, should help maintaining it in the long run.

  • carly™@lemm.ee
    12·
    1 year ago

    Icons in Plasma Styles

    In Plasma 5, the icons shown in various parts of Plasma widgets (but not apps) can come from one of two places: the active icon theme, or the active Plasma style. How do you the user know which icons come from which place? You can’t, not easily. What can you do if you apply a Plasma style and it includes weird icons that make your Plasma widgets look visually inconsistent with the rest of your system–but only partially? Nothing!

    […]

    For Plasma 6, we’re removing this questionable feature, and icons in Plasma widgets will always come from the systemwide icon theme. Much simpler, much more user-comprehensible, much better visual results 99% of the time.

    I’ve tried to give Plasma a fair shot a few times, but, among other issues, I’m not a fan of Breeze and I found the theming functionality overwhelming and difficult to navigate. Mainly I could never figure out which themes certain elements were attached to. This is a big example and I’m glad to see them changing it.

    • Ananace@lemmy.ananace.dev
      9·
      1 year ago

      Basically, you can open some widgets inside a standalone window instead of attaching them to a bar/desktop, making them act like some kind of standalone application instead - including losing all their state as soon as their window is closed.

        • Ananace@lemmy.ananace.dev
          5·
          1 year ago

          The only widget I’ve found in any way useful as a detached window like that has been the sticky note, and even there the usability is limited compared to just opening kwrite - or any other simple text editor.

          It’s definitely an interesting - if quite useless and potentially confusing - feature, but it makes complete sense to drop it from core and instead let it live as an extension instead, since it’s quite literally just a krunner runner anyway.

  • Andy@programming.dev
    9·
    1 year ago

    I miss:

    • old amarok
    • actively developed oxygen qt style
    • wallpaper per virtual desktop
    • window tabs
    • latte dock
    • parachute

    I will also miss:

    • khotkeys
    • plasma theme icons
    • windowed widgets
    • icon size settings
    • some task switchers, I think
  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
    2·
    1 year ago

    For the desktop wallpapers, it couldn’t use the unsplash api? Just ask the customer to input an unsplash api key