I use Ctrl+Super+L for screen locking in #KDE#Plasma.
It works fine, but Plasma doesn't automatically pause media playback when locking the screen.
So, I removed the lockscreen shortcut, and added a custom Ctrl+Super+L shortcut to execute:
bash -c 'playerctl pause & qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver Lock'
My music stopped playing, the phone rang, I answered it.
After speaking for a few minutes, I hung up and the music started up again.
It took me a second to realize that the music wasn't coming from my phone, it was coming from my computer.
#KDEConnect is groovy, y'all. It pauses your music when a phone call comes in. (MPRIS-compatible player required, of course, but even mpv on the command line can do that)
"The Fedora project is currently considering a change for future versions which would switch the default Workstation edition's desktop from to KDE Plasma. GNOME has always been the primary desktop for the Fedora, but KDE's Plasma desktop would offer a better experience. The features the proposal highlights are Plasma's system tray, Wayland support, and a reduced learning curve for new Linux users"
I've got udev rules that trigger a shell script when I turn the mouse off/on. That's the first part!
Still haven't been able to find a way to use libinput, kcfg (Python CLI for modifying KDE settings), probably something else to disable the touchpad or stop processing its events.
I gave KDE Plasma Mobile another go. It improved a LOT over the past few months. No crashes yet! It's a lot more stable now. Although not as stable as Phosh.
I like their whole "just copy Android" philosophy. Everything feels familiar and intuitive. I might keep it like this.
It seems that the #joystick#calibration button, present in #kde#plasma 5, has disappeared in plasma 6. Unfortunately my joysticks are almost unusable if not calibrated :( How can I fix this?
[#ActuScience@IRAP ] A young IRAP PhD student formulates a new #theoretical model of the giant #magnetospheres of the planets #Jupiter and #Saturn: "By considering only the global motion of the #plasma (coming from the moons #Io and #Enceladus), it is possible to understand it simply as... a competition between various rotation resistances!"
Listen, I love #fedora. Bar none it's one of the best distros out there, but more than that it's been the stomping grounds for #linux#desktop innovation. Don't believe me? You've got #Wayland, #PipeWire, contributions to #xdg, to the Linux kernel proper, etc. Fedora is more than a distro, it's a #comunity of people who wish to push the envelope.
That's why I am for #plasma becoming the new workstation standard, because of the good it did #GNOME. Let me explain...
If I were to give a review of the #kde#plasma desktop, I'd give it a few honourable mentions because of the effort put in - but I found myself a bit disappointed.
It's probably a problem of release cadence and steering the unyielding man-of-war that is the Plasma stack, which most likely made #Wayland integration into #kwin a challange and a half.
But for me, the whole Plasma paradigm needs to be rethought because usability wise it's showing it's age. This did not "feel" like a milestone.
That being said, #plasma 6 needs some love, some contributions, and #kde could also do well with some funding.
This is where #fedora comes in. Plasma as the default would mean opening the ticket spigot their way, that's IF users stick to the default workstation, which is the speculation.
But at the very least Fedora devs would most assuredly give expertise and time working on certain complex problems that needs solving, which Plasma would benifit from greatly.
For me, I'm holding out hope for #plasma 6.2 or something, to come barreling in the door, saying "here am I, freshly dressed and ready to mingle."
I hope that the #usability issues would be solved, like the whole desktop costumizer needs modernising, the various widgets and even theming needs to be finely polished.
Once more, let me step down from my high horse by stating THAT'S A LOT OF WORK. Let's not pretend otherwise. It's easier to review than actually do.
In conclusion, if #plasma were to become the default DE of #fedora#workstation, I believe it would be the shot in the arm the #KDE community needs to become as polished and as consistent as #GNOME.
Whereas GNOME has strict #UX, Plasma is the "design-it-yourself" desktop, using various mechanisms and internal standards, which arguably is so hard to do, that desktop ricing isn't even comparable.
It's a great desktop, but needs some love from users and devs. I think Fedora can help with that.
I have a terminal case of distrohopping disease that seems to come up whenever a new version of #KDE#Plasma or #GNOME is released.
This lead me to install the beta of #Fedora 40's KDE spin this weekend, as I couldn't wait to play with Plasma 6.
Impressions so far, ignoring all the great user invisible work that went into things like porting it all to QT 6, are pretty good, while feature-wise it's not a big leap, it feels like a much more polished version of Plasma 5, which is not a bad thing.
I want to emphasize, this is NOT an April Fool's joke. It may come as a surprise, given I am the lead of @buddiesofbudgie, but I am just as interested in seeing adoption of Fedora and the greater Linux desktop increase. I firmly believe that Plasma as a default over GNOME Shell would be a net positive for the Linux ecosystem.
Ok, the way the search/launcher menu on #KDE#Plasma highlights an item in random as you're typing a search query (instead of highlighting the top item) so that it often opens a random file instead of the most likely match drives me NUTS.
I should just use #KRunner more often, as it doesn't seem to have that quirk.
I think it partly occurs if the mouse is down on the bottom part of the screen parallel to where the menu pop up (but not actually ON the menu), but it's happened to me even when the mouse cursor is far out of the way.
I really wish #Plasma let you customize the order of search results (and customize it for the launcher and KRunner separately)