Comment on A slight UX change in Plasma 6.4.1 by Oliver Beard

In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/06/25/a-slight-ux-change-in-plasma-6-4-1/comment-page-1/#comment-40390">yin</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The problem specifically is that the animation is cancelled when it goes from fading away (no windows being highlighted) to fading back in (windows being highlighted). This results in a jump rather than a smooth transition, which is the problem here.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>This isn't triggered by alt+tab because there's no way to rapidly highlight nothing and then something again but because of the empty space between the thumbnails in the Task Switcher tooltip, it's surprisingly easy to rapidly trigger just by moving your mouse across them at a reasonable speed.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I think the fix will be a combination of making the animation slower (150ms -> 250ms, too much and it no longer feels responsive) and of course fixing the issue which causes the animation to cancel.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...

Comment on A slight UX change in Plasma 6.4.1 by Alexander Sanderson

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I'd like to think that the doom-and-gloom vibe about accessibility is actually a good thing because it shows that our community is starting to care a lot more about accessibility, and as a result is starting to uncover all the issues with it which were previously ignored. Now that it's getting more attention, there's a bigger chance that we can improve it.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...

Comment on SteamOS destroys Windows by Nate

In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/27/steamos-destroys-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-40386">SatoMew</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>ArsTechnica concurs with the premise of the post, FWIW: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-steamos-than-windows-11-ars-testing-finds" rel="nofollow ugc">https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-steamos-than-windows-11-ars-testing-finds</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...

Comment on A slight UX change in Plasma 6.4.1 by yin

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>With thee default settings, there is no 'flicker' to be pedantic. It changes the screen at the same speed of pointer movement from one thumbnail to another. This can be fast enough to cause issue. The animation curve can be twicked, or a delay can be added if the effect is triggered once (first highlight). I'm not familiar with this effect impl though so likely I'm writing nonsense lol.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...

Comment on About Plasma’s X11 session by Jaime Antonio González

In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/06/21/about-plasmas-x11-session/comment-page-1/#comment-40374">Jaime Antonio González</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I installed Heaptrack to try to figure out what's happening. I get lots of "unresolved functions" doing a lot of allocations and adding up over time.<br><br>Bug filed: <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506197" rel="nofollow ugc">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506197</a><br><br></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...

Comment on About Plasma’s X11 session by Iv Ko

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Recently I hit an unexpected roadblock to use Wayland session in KDE. Some of us have to use some Time Tracking software to "snap" our "work" (hint to the software name) and it turned out it heavily relies on different X-related command-line tools to track keypresses, active windows and stuff. I know there is an "Legacy X11 App Support" page in System Settings but it doesn't allow to expose mouse movement to such applications. And as a result I get almost zero "activity score" there. I heard this works in GNOME Wayland session (a colleague reported this works on latest Ubuntu) but I don't have any desire to poke GNOME and I am afraid Plasma X11 session will degrade up to being completely unusable in the future. I used an "xinput test-xi2 --root" (a command the software uses) to verify that it can't see mouse movements outside of any X11/XWayland apps. Is there any possibility we can receive mouse movements setting to allow X11 apps to see that everywhere?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...

Comment on SteamOS destroys Windows by SatoMew

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>As an avid Windows user, I feel a bit skeptical about news like this because it feels like the technical details and configurations aren't sufficiently described in order to properly evaluate the comparisons.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>For example, are both Windows and SteamOS using Modern Standby (https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby) when assessing battery life? If not, how does Windows fare on this gaming handheld if configured to use classic standby, assuming it is available (run "powercfg /availablesleepstates" in the CLI)? Furthermore, the ArchWiki suggests that the implementation of Modern Standby on Linux isn't as thorough as those of Windows and also macOS.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Then there are other features that only Windows has like fast startup: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/power/system-power-states</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I'm not trying to diminish your efforts and those of KDE as a whole, they're extremely positive, especially since KDE has helped Wayland mature and enhance the Linux desktop UX, but I just feel disappointed in the lack of information when it comes to this stuff.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...