In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/10/13/this-week-in-kde-colorblindness-correction-filters/comment-page-1/#comment-38318">Nikolay Stoynov</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>@<strong>Michael</strong> Does <a href="https://github.com/lliurex/kwin-colorcorrection-effect" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/lliurex/kwin-colorcorrection-effect</a> work better for you?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>"We also made plans to remove QML-themability from splash screens and login screen themes, and instead you’ll simply be able to choose custom images." I have had my own personal SDDM theme for a very long time. I also ported it from QT 5 to QT 6. It gets has no avatars, simply a background, traditional user name with password boxes, an arrow for enter, a session drop down box, time and date, with shutdown and reboot buttons. It is basically Breeze without the generic avatar place holder. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>SO, this simplified login theming would no longer be supported? I would have to accept SDDM's default look, including the annoying generic avatar, and only have the ability to change the background/wallpaper? <br></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I have a single user system installed on multiple devices for years. There should at least be a way to hide some of the elements on the login screen. Specifically, that avatar in the circle above the login name. It is huge and ugly and completely unnecessary for many users with only one or two family member systems that do not use or need avatars/face images. Also, it looks exactly like Windows IMO. I do not need a generic placeholder to remind me that I am not using a face image/avatar. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Thanks for the write up, much appreciated!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/01/notes-from-the-graz-plasma-sprint/comment-page-1/#comment-40275">Drogosław</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Yes, we plan to make the aggregated data public, for just that reason!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/01/notes-from-the-graz-plasma-sprint/comment-page-1/#comment-40274">Drogosław</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It's coming along! You can follow the development progress at <a href="https://invent.kde.org/plasma/union/-/commits" rel="nofollow ugc">https://invent.kde.org/plasma/union/-/commits</a>. Currently it's progressing towards an alpha release.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
<!-- wp:quote --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Our telemetry UX will be the same: people will see a dialog window asking them to participate in the survey, and in there, they’ll see what data will be collected.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Yeah, the problem was that despite one's will to turn it on, one had to manually enter the preferences of each affected app, find the necessary option and turn it on – and some apps had it, some didn't.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>That's too much to ask for to have a representative sample.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Advanced users (like I) would probably prefer a centralized place to tweak telemetry to their liking, but for the wide range of users, a popup is the best way to go, I guess.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>What makes the mentioned Steam Hardware Survey even more successful is the fact that the statistics gathered this way are detailed and totally public. This makes them discussed around in the (social) media which builds up their recognition and reputation. I wish KDE went this way too. The Linux world lacks statistics even more than the PC gaming world.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>As for the theming, how's the effort to unify the existing engines going?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I'm waiting for the day that <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490133" rel="nofollow ugc">my (un)favorite bug</a> (that you personally already remember about, I think, since I keep moaning about it :D) can be easily fixed. Also, this would help the community in developing unofficial themes, which makes it related to the KDE Store issue.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I'm glad to hear that there's been some buzz around "KDE Store"/"KDE Look". As I've stated numerous times, it provides a terrible user experience and really needs to be designed from ground up (I happened to be mentioned by Phoronix once with this claim :D).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:quote --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[…] and the place being sadly flooded with low-effort AI-created junk</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Well, it's been flooded with low-effort man-made junk since I remember, long before the ongoing AI craze. No moderation means no quality control.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The current situation hurts not only users who can download stuff that does "Very Bad
" things (even if that's not what the author wanted to!), but also creators of high-quality themes, addons, icon sets etc. who struggle to get attention among the junk that surrounds them. It makes the ecosystem around KDE/Plasma rather small.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Hopefully, something will come out of it!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/04/06/tools-that-just-work-until-they-dont/comment-page-1/#comment-40254">0penmindead</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I think the big issue here is independence. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>If you have an archive of an old Debian version (the everything CD images that include the whole repos), you can go and install it today and use it forever. Yes, the machine won't be secure online, but it will work. You can put it on a laptop that never connects to the network and it will be perfectly usable. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>If you grab a windows 11 ISO and try to use it in 10 years it won't even install, because the installer needs an internet connection. Same for most software today - there's online license activation, always online functionality, automatic driver detection etc. If I got a copy of Solidworks or anything Adobe suite today, it will be as a subscription and it will just stop working in a year.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>From the 3d printer land, one of my acquaintances was getting one for kids and ended up with a XYZDaVinci machine. Those have all nicely integrated features, proprietary everything, rfid in filament spools for material auto detection. Well now the company is out of business, the slicer is hard to setup since it was compiled for very old Windows versions, and the rfid spools, which are the only thing the machine will accept, can't be purchased anywhere. If the software was open, you could compile a firmware that skips the rfid detection (or more likely some hacker online would and you would just download it feom their forum post) and keep printing. Or, you know, it would not have that "feature" in the first place. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Hey, I left this comment on the KDE forums, but I'm not sure anyone will see it there, so I'll post it here as well:<br></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>"I really love this feature! It feels so smooth and intuitive, it puts the normal autoscroll to shame! I do think it should have a name that describes it better though - how about Pan-Scrolling? Since it’s closer to panning with the MMB.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>However, it does have its caveats. It doesn’t act nicely with some windows and games where middle-click is necessary. I tested it in Hammerwatch 2, where I had a skill bound to middle mouse and couldn’t use it - instead it sent scroll up/down, MB4 and MB5 (back and forward) key presses. Not sure if it’s intended, however, it did work wonderfully in the menus of that same game.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>So I have a question - is it possible to disable it on a per-application or per-window basis? I did try to tweak some settings on the game window like ignoring global shortcuts, but that didn’t prevent me from pan-scrolling, only disabled my alt-tab (which is far from ideal).<br>If it’s not possible, I’d make it a priority to have an option to disable it for specific windows."<br></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...