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KDE developer here. Probably for a few more years but there is no timeline yet, but then we do we will definitively announce it some times before (e.g. a year)

by ognarb 3y ago

KDE developer here. Probably for a few more years but there is no timeline yet, but then we do we will definitively announce it some times before (e.g. a year) and are likely to make the release before that an LTS version.

p4bl0 3y ago
Congrats on the mega-release to you and all the team who worked hard to get there! I really love KDE. I'm a small time contributor to the project but every time I've been very welcomed and guided all the way through the merging of my contributions on Kate and related projects (KTextEditor, KXMLGUI, etc.), and also Dolphin Plugins. I started using KDE after a very long time without any desktop environment at all, for years before, I did not even have a graphical file manager installed on my systems. I was pretty happy like this: everything was very efficient, no bloat was running on my system that I didn't chose to, I knew how everything worked, etc. Good times. One day I decided that I couldn't seriously continue to tell people to switch to Linux while not having a clue what it's like to use it as a muggle, so I decided to try installing a full DE and start using GUI for real (up to that point my only graphical applications were Firefox and Inkscape from time to time, even my emails were in Emacs etc). I made a bit of looking around to compare Gnome and KDE and decided that KDE was closer to what I'd like. It's now been a few years already and I love it, really. Anyway, all that to give more substance to my big thanks and congratulations :).
- SomeoneFromCA 3y ago
  I personally like gnome a bit more, but it has terrible fractional scaling on hidpi.
SomeoneFromCA 3y ago
Font rendering on HiDPI was worse (slightly blurrier, many probably won't notice, but annoys me a lot) on Wayland than X11; probably because X11 had different scaling step, friendlier to the way freetype scales. Many other things just worked better on X11 than on Wayland. I wonder if the problem was solved in Plasma 6 (almost sure it was not).
- ognarb 3y ago
  Qt6 now support the wayland fractional scaling protocol which should improve the situation quite a bit for applications ported to Qt6.

by ognarb 3y ago

p4bl0 3y ago

Congrats on the mega-release to you and all the team who worked hard to get there! I really love KDE. I'm a small time contributor to the project but every time I've been very welcomed and guided all the way through the merging of my contributions on Kate and related projects (KTextEditor, KXMLGUI, etc.), and also Dolphin Plugins. I started using KDE after a very long time without any desktop environment at all, for years before, I did not even have a graphical file manager installed on my systems. I was pretty happy like this: everything was very efficient, no bloat was running on my system that I didn't chose to, I knew how everything worked, etc. Good times. One day I decided that I couldn't seriously continue to tell people to switch to Linux while not having a clue what it's like to use it as a muggle, so I decided to try installing a full DE and start using GUI for real (up to that point my only graphical applications were Firefox and Inkscape from time to time, even my emails were in Emacs etc). I made a bit of looking around to compare Gnome and KDE and decided that KDE was closer to what I'd like. It's now been a few years already and I love it, really. Anyway, all that to give more substance to my big thanks and congratulations :).

SomeoneFromCA 3y ago
I personally like gnome a bit more, but it has terrible fractional scaling on hidpi.

SomeoneFromCA 3y ago

Font rendering on HiDPI was worse (slightly blurrier, many probably won't notice, but annoys me a lot) on Wayland than X11; probably because X11 had different scaling step, friendlier to the way freetype scales. Many other things just worked better on X11 than on Wayland. I wonder if the problem was solved in Plasma 6 (almost sure it was not).

ognarb 3y ago
Qt6 now support the wayland fractional scaling protocol which should improve the situation quite a bit for applications ported to Qt6.