<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I have to agree with others here on the new tabs, I am not a fan. They are way too tall, and the highlight colour looks off. I don't mind tabs spanning the full width like they do currently (seems to be a new change? I don't remember them always doing that, although the sides have some visual oddities) but tabs' focus colour should match the backgrouund colour of the window without a divide, to indicate that this is a tab.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The problems I have here are much the same as others.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:list --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>The colour is off, they should match the foreground colour of the body of the tab, and the accent along the top of the tab represents that it is the currently selected one. A focused accent on the whole tab isn't appropriate.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>They are too tall, the height of tabs currently is appropriate, it doesn't need changed. A lot of vertical real estate is lost here, and the tabs stand out way too much.<!-- wp:list --> <ul class="wp-block-list"><!-- wp:list-item --> <li>I actually quite like that tabs now span the full width of the tab bar, although when dialogs like the shown one in Dolphin are maximized it does begin to look a little odd. Probably a tradeoff is needed after the window exceeds a certain width and depending on how many tabs are present, they should stop filling the tab bar row.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --></li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>The tabs look like buttons, but they are not really buttons in the traditional sense. This makes them look jarring.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --> <!-- wp:list-item --> <li>There should not be a divider between the tab and the content of the panel. The tab is supposed to be a part of the panel, and clicking on it will bring that panel to focus. Having a divider makes it look separate and isolated.</li> <!-- /wp:list-item --></ul> <!-- /wp:list --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I hope the design team reconsider this one, Plasma 6's design direction has been a little bit worrying overall and this compounds the worry. Of course, themes are always an option, but they need maintained. Breeze defaults should give a nice experience out-of-the-box. I just want to echo again the voices of the majority above (majority at time of writing, anyway) that this is an unwelcome change.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2024/09/13/this-week-in-plasma-6-2-beta-release/comment-page-1/#comment-39992">KayDeeMee</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Much better with a taller top bar here too: <a href="https://images2.imgbox.com/1c/24/PqpdtOlE_o.png" rel="nofollow ugc">https://images2.imgbox.com/1c/24/PqpdtOlE_o.png</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>While editing that image I noticed this little flaw: <a href="https://images2.imgbox.com/64/73/YrwYGt2i_o.png" rel="nofollow ugc">https://images2.imgbox.com/64/73/YrwYGt2i_o.png</a> Probably the worst UI mistake I have seen in the last 35 years!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Get to work KDE boys and gals!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Hi Nate,</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Thanks for all the great work. I hope Akademy was fun and I look forward to try 6.2 :)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>One slightly beside the point question, it seems like Cosmic Desktop (system 76) is bringing back window tabbing. It feels kinda sad that this was a plasma feature years ago but now people are raving about it for Cosmic and "we" (the KDE nerds) don't have it any more. Do you think there might be scope / interest from devs to look at how they did it and bring it back (my coding knowledge =null)?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>See: <a href="https://system76.com/cosmic" rel="nofollow ugc">https://system76.com/cosmic</a> or more specifically <a href="https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/issues/262" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-comp/issues/262</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2024/09/13/this-week-in-plasma-6-2-beta-release/comment-page-1/#comment-39995">Mario De Luca</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>@Mario, why so negative, why not give a suggestion for a configurations possibility</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>for have a choice and make it possible to use a checkbox or a pulldown selector for configure something.. and really trolling, is the badest possibility here in the tread where it is give us valuable information's for see what's new and and new usable... your opinion is important, but ideas for improvement are more welcome , like i guess.. ;)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>CiaoCiao Marco :)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>best<br>Blacky</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2024/09/13/this-week-in-plasma-6-2-beta-release/comment-page-1/#comment-39970">aa.bb</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Apropo Mouse gestures.. , does anyone remember Scrolling lines configuration to set how many lines the mouse scrolls when scrolling? It would be nice if something like that could be implemented again, because then fine-tuning for scrolling in KDE would be possible again :)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Algo así se eliminó estúpidamente de Plassma en aquel entonces, como el cubo, pero fue muy útil en aquel entonces. Sería bueno si esta pequeña pero muy útil opción de configuración se pudiera encontrar nuevamente en KDE ;)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>best regards<br>Blacky</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2024/09/13/this-week-in-plasma-6-2-beta-release/comment-page-1/#comment-39992">KayDeeMee</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It's better than what's in the blog post, but still far from <a href="https://www.tuxarena.com/intro/screens/tut_desktop/kde_02.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc">good old Oxygen</a>. (<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Calligra_Stage_2.4.png" rel="nofollow ugc">Calligra was pretty too then</a>.)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2024/09/13/this-week-in-plasma-6-2-beta-release/comment-page-1/#comment-39970">aa.bb</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>They're on my radar, yes. I've implemented a prototype for KWin that now needs to be integrated properly, and also settings will be a whole lot of work.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I keep getting sidetracked by other time-sensitive tasks, but I'm still planning to make time for it starting in 1-2 months from now. Anyone who would like to give it a shot first is welcome to do so, here's the KWin issue with all the important info: <a href="https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/issues/216" rel="nofollow ugc">https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/issues/216</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2024/09/13/this-week-in-plasma-6-2-beta-release/comment-page-1/#comment-39992">KayDeeMee</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Here, I fixed all our problems: <a href="https://images2.imgbox.com/63/d8/JCuAWgcs_o.png" rel="nofollow ugc">https://images2.imgbox.com/63/d8/JCuAWgcs_o.png</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The problem is not the new tabs, the problem is the way too skinny and cramped top bar. Make that taller and you have a nicer UI.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Yeah yeah, I know: "BLASPHEMY!" "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!!!" "NEVER IN MY LIFE HAVE I SEEN ANYTHING MORE ATROCIOUS!!!!" yada yada yada.. Linux gatekeeping explosions going off left and right...</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Just look at it, isn't it pretty now? =) You know it is.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2024/09/13/this-week-in-plasma-6-2-beta-release/comment-page-1/#comment-39995">Mario De Luca</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Ugliest? In 20 years? Really now? You're gonna love this: This is linux, you can change it to whatever you want! =)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2024/09/13/akademy-2024-broadening-professionalizing-and-being-awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-39996">dbeach</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It's an OS, but it doesn't exist yet as a user-facing product, so I'm not surprised that it has no web presence yet! Once it's officially released and announced, this will change.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...