Plasma 6.1

[Zema Bus]

Plasma 6.1 was released this past week, and Arch has shipped it. It's supposed to fix a lot of the issues that came with 6.0. Here's the default wallpaper:

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Though they left out the default wallpaper:

Note that due to unforeseen circumstances, we have been unable to ship the new wallpaper, “Reef”, with this version of Plasma. However, a new wallpaper will be coming soon in the next 6.2 version of Plasma.

If you can’t wait, you can download “Reef” from here:

That's from discuss.kde.org

Here's what all they changed: kde.org/announcements

[Grogan]

Well, that's certainly a better wallpaper than their usual 4 year old digital finger painting. This one was at least drawn by a 10 year old

I'll have to give that a spin. I still have that Arch VM, though it hasn't been booted up in a long time. I have half decent semi-accelerated 3D with virgl.

[Zema Bus]

One problem I had with it is that it would periodically want to severely dim my screen when waking the screen or logging in, even though it's set to full brightness in Plasma. This only affected my main screen, not the 2nd screen. After I moved the Plasma brightness setting down slightly (counterintuitive) it immediately returned to full brightness, and stayed that way after moving the slider back to full. So far it hasn't happened again since touching the brightness setting. I found other reports of this bug.

[Grogan]

I hate "dim the screen" power management. I set that to "Never" on laptops etc.

Moreover, I hate Desktop Environments' power managers in general. I have none, I removed xfce-power and I just use X11's DPMS and control it with xset (usually just the 10 minute default, but I turn it off and on with xset in scripts when I don't want it)

You name it, I probably hate it (software wise, I mean)

I'm generally negative about software environments etc. I cracked one customer up hysterically one time (I didn't think it was as funny as he did, it just kind of came out). I was ranting about all the annoyances in Windows and he was listening and engaging, what's that thing do etc. and I said something like "I fucking hate anything that does anything!" (I knew what I meant by that, it was rational in my mind lol)