The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6

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  • gimp

    Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp

  • matrix.to

    A simple stateless privacy-protecting URL redirecting service for Matrix

  • There is this list of 15-minute bugs that should be easy to tackle https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=critical&bug_s...

    Also strarting on smaller KDE applications is usually a great way to start, For example the Plasma widgets/applets or KDE games or educational applications.

    You can join the New Contributors char room on Matrix to get help with starting out https://matrix.to/#/#new-contributors:kde.org

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  • strawberry

    :strawberry: Strawberry Music Player (by strawberrymusicplayer)

  • areweguiyet

    A website built for the Rust community

  • I would suggest that nearly every person on this website is a developer. Both C and C++ let you shoot yourself in the foot quite easily, but at least C++ has RAII.

    If you're referring to Rust, it's just not there yet for anything serious: https://areweguiyet.com/

  • pcmanfm-qt

    File manager and desktop icon manager (Qt port of PCManFM and libfm)

  • konsole

    Terminal emulator by KDE

  • karousel

    KWin tiling script with scrolling

  • > How-the-ever, GNOME is ahead of them because of the progress on high dynamic range color, non-fullscreen/partial scanouts, variable refresh rates, and the hidden work in GNOME extensions enabling things like PaperWM.

    What?? Plasma/KWin 5.27 already had support for VRR. On Gnome/Mutter, it's still in a merge request (or maybe it's finally been merged recently? not sure but it's definitely not in any released version to my knowledge).

    Not sure about partial scanout, but Plasma 6 also enables basic HDR support (although it doesn't seem to work well on my Nvidia machine, SDR-on-HDR looks very washed out).

    Gnome is indeed massively ahead in terms of extensions, but I don't know how much of that is due to capabilities vs. market share. See for example Karousel https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel.

    From my perspective KDE is much farther ahead in pushing Wayland features. Apart from them currently shipping VRR and HDR, there is also for example long-standing support for XWayland-native scaling that Gnome is just now starting to consider. Or how about implementing server side decoration instead of forcing applications to use something like libdecor?

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  • Gradience

    Change the look of Adwaita, with ease

  • If your main problem with Adwaita are the colors, you can easily customize them, and there are even great GUI tools for this[1]

    My issue with Breeze aren't the default colors, but rather the theme itself

    [1]: https://github.com/GradienceTeam/Gradience

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