KDE Developers Work Through More Bug Fixes & Features For Plasma 6.1

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Developers Work Through More Bug Fixes & Features For Plasma 6.1

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary to outline all of the prominent feature work and fixes that landed in the KDE space this week...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Fixes-For-Qt-6.7

[schmidtbag]

Oh nice, Kolourpaint was one of the few Qt5 apps remaining on my system - glad to see that ported.

[Vistaus]

Major regression? Various crash fixes? Probably not as major as they make it sound, given that everyone and their mother keeps on commenting how rock solid and bug-free Plasma 6 is.

(Don't hate on me; I really like KDE, so it's not an anti-KDE post.)

[HighValueWarrior]

I will be happy if they fix the disappearing trash can whenever you put something into it .......... constructive critism, been rocking Plasma daily for 15 years

[bug77]

Major regression? Various crash fixes? Probably not as major as they make it sound, given that everyone and their mother keeps on commenting how rock solid and bug-free Plasma 6 is.

(Don't hate on me; I really like KDE, so it's not an anti-KDE post.)

I imagine it's pretty major if you use LUKS encryption. I don't, so...

[bug77]

Oh nice, Kolourpaint was one of the few Qt5 apps remaining on my system - glad to see that ported.

There's always Krusader. That thing took ages to move off Qt4, so I'm not holding my breath. Luckily, since Qt5 and KDE Frameworks5, everything has been broken into small modules, so programs still depending on older versions won't install the whole framework just to use some bits here and there.

[danger]

Hope they fix this annoying bug soon: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484323

[Nth_man]

There's always Krusader. That thing took ages to move off Qt4, so I'm not holding my breath. Luckily, since Qt5 and KDE Frameworks5, everything has been broken into small modules...

There is https://invent.kde.org/utilities/krusader/-/issues/28

[smirky]

I will be happy if they fix the disappearing trash can whenever you put something into it ..........

Maybe stop putting nasty things in it? It has its own feelings ya know...

[Vistaus]

There's always Krusader. That thing took ages to move off Qt4, so I'm not holding my breath. Luckily, since Qt5 and KDE Frameworks5, everything has been broken into small modules, so programs still depending on older versions won't install the whole framework just to use some bits here and there.

And the leap from Qt 5 to 6 is much smaller than from 4 to 5, so it should be easier to port now, just like GIMP GTK 3 to 4. Besides, Krusader is not even really a good example. What about Amarok? There's still no stable Qt 5 version to date. At least Krusader has been stable on Qt 5 for a long time now.

In fact, with Amarok it's even more of a shame, as it was once regarded as one of the best and most extensible music players on Linux, and even if you didn't agree, at least you knew about it. Krusader, on the other hand, is also fantastic, but it's targeted towards a niche (especially these days) group of people that want a more traditional file manager.

Edit: marked "stable" bold as apparently I wasn't clear enough by just writing the word "stable".