Plasma 5.22 has become more pleasurable to use through improvements to the design and greater smoothness and consistency in transparencies, blurs, icons, and animations. Moving things to accessible locations, offering hints and visual cues, and creating new settings allows you to customize your work environment to make it fit perfectly to your needs. Following the true KDE spirit, the push for a more stable and attractive desktop does not mean you have to renounce control over how you want it to look or behave. Plasma 5.22, as always, packs all the flexibility and tools for customization you have come to expect and love, and some more to boot.
Meanwhile, the push to move Plasma in its entirety to Wayland (the display protocol of the future) continues in full swing. So much so that popular distros are starting to ship Plasma with Wayland by default. By using Wayland behind the scenes, Plasma is able to include features and bug fixes not possible to implement on X11, offering you a better experience and more stability.
This is a massive release, and I can’t wait for this to trickle down to Manjaro over the coming week. I use Wayland, so I’ve been excited for this release since the beginning.
No links? Here, grab a link to Nate Graham blog post:
https://pointieststick.com/2021/06/04/this-week-in-kde-plasma-5-22-is-nigh/
Has kmail gotten anymore love?
leech,
I’d also like for that to be the case.
I’ve been a thunderbird user for many years, but am extremely concerned over its future.since mozilla give it the boot. The team is doing to best with the limited resources they have, but they’re struggling to support a very long backlog of bugs. The alternatives I’ve tried like kmail and evolution fall short of what I’ve gotten used to. Meanwhile gmail has virtually wiped out the user base. Thankfully email has strong roots as a federated protocol to discourage a single company from controlling everything, but I’m sad to say it looks like traditional email clients are in a long slow decline. Hopefully I’m proven wrong though.
It just hit Void and I got it with my morning ‘xbps-install -Su’ just now. So far so good, no immediate visual changes other than changing my wallpaper to one of the new ones and some new icons, and some neat transparency stuff that seems to be just enough fluff without overdoing it. I still can’t run Wayland 24/7 as it doesn’t allow for certain niche apps even with XWayland. Honestly though, performance on X11 is still superb. I was never a KDE fan until I tried Plasma on Slackware-current a few years ago (thanks to AlienBOB’s Ktown project), and it has only gotten better since then. It has unseated Xfce as my go-to desktop permanently at this point.