r/linux • u/MatchingTurret • 20h ago

Software Release Plasma 6.8 is out, it's KDE's 30th birthday, and we're kicking off our fundraiser

/r/kde/comments/1x5mq2f/plasma_68_is_out_its_kdes_30th_birthday_and_were/
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u/KsiaN 16h ago

For the first day of our fundraiser

And once the popup will come up i will give you money again KDE.

A year of pure W's and more to come i hope.

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u/Traditional_Hat3506 20h ago

Wayland-only, finally!

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u/Kingwolf4 20h ago

When out on fedora 44?

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u/WickedDeity 17h ago

Usually days to a week.

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u/0riginal-Syn 17h ago

They are usually not far behind, but I could see it taking a bit longer being the switch to Wayland only.

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u/cwo__ 16h ago

Usually a day or two, but will likely be longer this time, as the Fedora repos are frozen due to the imminent F45 release.

There's a copr by the Fedora Plasma packagers that should have it much earlier.

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u/185EDRIVER 16h ago

Anyone else have random stutter if they have the dock set to pop up when moving the mouse down to it

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u/sheeproomer 1h ago

They finally deprecated themselves.

Good riddance, I have been building my own QT based environment for a while now.

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u/fat_kaiju 18h ago

... the better accessibility they felt important enough to bring to the front is a clicker?

i am not saying that isn't a cool thing to have but, um... wayland-only is really screwing over a lot of people with accessibility needs and none of those issues have been addressed and so it's a little "cherry on a sh*t sundae"-esque I'm afraid.

(sorry to be so negative but, gheez...)

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u/cwo__ 15h ago

A dwell clicker was the main thing missing in Wayland from the X11 session, with regard to accessibility feature support - screen readers have been working fully for a while, I think even including mouse review. Keyboard input accessibility had its missing bits filled in throughout the 6 series, Slow Keys was the major missing one which came with 6.6. Magnification and other visual effect have been working for a good while, usually better than on X11.

Dwell clicking only had KMouseTool, which was X11 only. So the new feature closes a major gap.

(As usual, there's a bunch of more accessibility improvements coming with 6.8, but those are not release note material)

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u/the_abortionat0r 14h ago

Stop the concern trolling.