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Hello all,

I have created a post on reddit to fix the issue where SDDM doesn't scale well on plasma 6, and wanted to share it here in case anyone is having the same issue

I have two monitors that are 4k and SDDM wasn't scaling correctly on either of them. It was too small and was very annoying. I tried many ways to fix it, but nothing helped. Applying plasma settings to SDDM from the settings didn't help either. Some kind soul recommended an Arch wiki piece that helped me fix it. I want to share with everyone just in case. And here is the screenshot on what to do in case the wiki is not clear enough. Navigate to /etc/sddm.conf.d and create a new file and call it hidpi.conf (in case you don't have it), then add the following lines to it and save:

[Wayland]

EnableHiDPI=true

[X11]

EnableHiDPI=true

[General]

GreeterEnvironment=QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=2,QT_FONT_DPI=192

You can change the QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=2 to any number to fit the size of your screen. I set mine to 1.75 since it is the perfect scaling for my 27" monitor. Hope this helps. Have a good day

Scenes from Plasma 6 launch parties from around the world 🌏🥳

1. Dharan (Nepal)
2. Málaga (Spain
3. Berlin (Germany)

Share your party's photos!

https://community.kde.org/Promo/Events/Parties/KDE_6th_Megarelease

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#Plasma6 #party

I've always been a Gnome fanboy and couldn't imagine using something else.

I've dabbled into KDE every few months (by rebasing from Silverblue to Kinoite for example) and I've always switched back after a few weeks.

I always wished I liked KDE, because it's more powerful, but there always were show stoppers. Inconsistencies, bugs and crashes, too many options, cluttered UI, and more. My main argument to dislike it was that KDE tried to do everything all at once, but fails everywhere because nothing is polished and only 90% there.

Gnome on the other hand was simple and just worked, because every feature has been worked on thoroughly and integrated perfectly.
Still, there are just a few things I dislike on Gnome, especially the core problem of "sleeping" devs who decide against implementing stuff like fractional scaling or a good app tray.
The lack of modularity in Nautilus is also hugely annoying, especially when working with RAW pictures, where you don't see a picture. I had to install a photo viewer that is basically a second file manager just because of that. Dolphin does that out of the box.

Still, Gnome felt like the lesser evil for me.

This has changed now!

I rebased to the newest F40 beta (including KDE 6) and WOW!

Everything feels so polished and reworked. I have the feeling, on Plasma 5 were a lot of innovations and new features, but they were just thrown into the room incoherently.
Now, those have been reorganized and finished.

• The design language is almost the same, but cleaned up and less cluttered,
• I don't feel the need to change my themes, only the accent colour and the GTK theme. Breeze looks very mature and good now.
• The gestures are pretty much on par with Gnome, which means A LOT.
• It works pretty reliable, even though it's a beta and I will report bugs if I can.
• Future stability should also be better now, due to the bundles release schedule like on Gnome. Devs had a hard time with that in the past, and I think many bugs were caused by that. Now, Plasma might ship as the default DE for some distros.
• The settings are way more legible now and everything is easier to find.
• I also liked KRunner more than Gnome's search and Dolphin is way better/ capable anyway.
• And much more!

To the developers, you did a fucking great job! Keep going!
KDE feels SO professional now and finally reached its potential in my eyes. The last days have been very pleasant and I can't wait to rebase my devices to the stable release in 1-2 months!

The KDE 6 announcement says that

On prior versions you chose between either password or fingerprint authentication for the lockscreen. In Plasma 6, both are supported at the same time.

I've updated my Neon install, what do I need to do to enable this? I've set up a fingerprint through the user settings, but when the screen is locked I still have to use my password to unlock - there isn't a prompt, and touching the reader doesn't seem to do anything

Edit: follow up on an old post in case someone stumbles across it - I needed to install libpam-fprintd

Plasma 6.0 has been released. Check out the new overview, improved colour management, a cleaner theme, more effects, better overall performance, and much more.

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6

#Plasma6

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I'm currently using gnome and I'd like to switch to plasma, but I want to be able to intergrate my google and nextcloud accounts like in gnome's online accounts section. How could I do this?

And the Winner of the Plasma 6 Wallpaper Competition is... “Sun/Comet”! 🏆

Congratulations to the winner 🖌️ and we look forward to enjoying your work on our #Plasma6 desktops.

https://discuss.kde.org/t/winner-announcement/9608

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FreeBSD has supported Plasma for a long time, but on OpenBSD, it's been a long time coming. I believe a KDE desktop hasn't been available on OpenBSD since Plasma 4, perhaps even KDE 3.

Plasma 6 Beta 2 released! We are nearly there, but more testing needed.

Just in time for the Winter Holidays 🎄, Happy New Beta 🎉!

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta2/

After this second Beta, there will be two Release Candidates, one on the 10th and the other on the 31st of January. All these releases are **not** final, they are for testing and should not be used in production...

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#Plasma6

Hi! I've recently switched to KDE Plasma with Wayland, running ArchLinux, I'm using a Fujitsu Lifebook T901, which can be folded to only reveal the screen. KDE is smart enough that if I do that, it automatically enables touch mode, making the UI larger, but then it's missing an onscreen keyboard. I installed Maliit, and once enabled, it works well, but the keyboard remains enabled even if I turn touch mode off. Can I change this behavior somehow?

One of these 6 beauties will become the wallpaper for Plasma 6. Which one do you prefer?

#Plasma6 #wallpaper #desktop

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Plasma pony

Why wait for Microsoft to catch up with what we've been doing for decades?

Get Plasma, a modern, fully functional, clean, privacy-respecting, non-intrusive operating system now, regardless from where you live and ditch Windows for good.

https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/

#windows #DMA

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Krita 🖌️ is now available on the macOS store.

If you are an #Apple #Mac user, you can now install KDE's powerful #painting program @Krita directly to your #macOS-powered machine.

Read why it took so long and how to avoid scammy knock-offs (of which there are quite few) here:

https://krita.org/en/item/krita-in-stores-update/

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KDE is 27 years old today 🎂! Happy Birthday to us!

Check out all our kool stuff:

https://kde.org

Help us keep KDE alive and kicking for 1000 years more (at least)!:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2022/

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Introducing KDE for Students

Make your #study sessions more productive, compose papers with ease, and ace your #finals with KDE. Our apps and Plasma desktop will give you all you need to succeed during your studies and in #academia... and will even run fine on your old laptop!

https://kde.org/for/students/

#students #school #university #college

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Check out our new "KDE for Gamers" guide.

Whether you are into casual, retro or AAA #gaming, KDE has something for you 🎮🎲!

https://kde.org/for/gamers/

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Become a Plasma 6 Supporter!

#Plasma6 is coming in February 2024. Support KDE with an official membership and your name will be recorded in the release of our brand new desktop environment.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

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Finally got around to looking at this, and… we've basically had this solved in Ubuntu Touch for 6 years already. Long press on space bar to switch to cursor mode, which turns the keyboard into a rudimentary touch pad for moving the cursor and selecting text. It's gained a few features over the years, and is part of maliit-keyboard under @kde Plasma Mobile now too.

https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/111108791774428342

Here's a couple shots of the keyboard in this mode under Plasma Mobile on a @PINE64 #PinePhone as well.

I was thinking, with the recent news of a contributor to GitLab adding support for forge federation, given some time we could see that being enabled in the KDE instance as well, I hope.
So that brings me to a question, if it will be used, will we be able to largely move to reporting and discussing issues on the specific project pages without signing up rather than going to the more generic Bugzilla?
I was really hoping for something like this to happen because I find Bugzilla to be very dispersive and it feels hard to find the issues that you want, unless you remember the syntax needed to filter the results correctly every single time, so much so that I never signed up on there (but maybe I'm just too lazy and I never took the time to actually understand it).
On the other hand I think most other issue trackers integrated in software forges are way more intuitive, as well as having better discoverability, since they're right there by the code base.

If, instead, you won't do it and prefer to keep Bugzilla as the main issue tracking platform, could you tell us why? Is it to keep the developer discussions separate from the user ones so as to keep your GitLab more focused? Or would there be other reasons?