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KDE Plasma 5.13 Released (kde.org)
jrepin writes: KDE unveils the final release of Plasma 5.13, the free and open-source desktop environment. Members of the Plasma team have focused on optimizing startup and minimizing memory usage. Plasma Browser Integration is a suite of new features which make Firefox, Chrome and Chromium-based browsers work with your desktop. For example, downloads are now displayed in the Plasma notification popup, and the Media Controls Plasmoid can mute and skip videos and music playing from within the browser. Browser tabs can be opened directly using KRunner via the Alt-Space keyboard shortcut. System Settings design has been improved further. Window manager gained much-improved effects for blur and desktop switching. Wayland work continued, with the return of window rules, and initial support for screencasts and desktop sharing. You can view the changelog here.
This is pretty cool. One of the biggest features of a desktop is browser integration.
<Churchill>KDE is the worst PC desktop, except for all of the others. </Churchill>
Fixed Akonadi yet? I would say, get rid of the MySQL dependency for a start, or can you not spell ACID? If that is too hard, then just kill Akonadi.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
KDE still can't be trusted and won't be able to be trusted until they close their source. Because KDE is open source, anyone can look through the source code, find the bugs and vulnerabilities, and exploit them. With apps like Konqueror that make network connections, and anyone able to view the source to find the bugs, KDE is basically a ticking time bomb. KDE can be trusted for security when they transition to being closed source software.
I'll stick with KDE4 still.
"KWin does not provide window tabs" -- https://community.kde.org/Plasma/5.13_Errata
What year is it? 2002?
Don't let the devs year you call it KDE 5 - they are quite adamant that there is no such thing. It's "KDE Plasma" and they will deny the existence of KDE 5 for hours before revealing that fact if you ask them about it in a support channel. Just a cautionary note for KDE users - DO NOT use the term "KDE 5" if you ask for help from the KDE support people, you'll never remember what your original issue was until the discussion ends.
uh?
If there is so much attention on the looks... why are kde apps still bloated with empty, unusable space?
It's hilarious when you become enraged. I don't feel threatened by you at all. It's impossible to take you seriously. You're angry because you've done nothing with your life other than troll Slashdot and Arstechnica for the past 16 years. You're really triggered by the fact that my net worth is $50 million more than your net worth. I might actually be threatened by you if I could take you seriously.
Or not. One can't help but feeling that the Linux flagship desktop offerings (Gnome and KDE) are more and more irrelevant with every passing year. Linux keeps spinning its wheels in the desktop, and the prospects are that this will remain true for the foreseeable future. I wouldn't be surprised those two offerings - big, ponderous, resource-hungry, my-way-or-the-highway (especially Gnome) - are contributing decisively to keep things the way they are as far as Linux's share of the desktop market is concerned. Well, at least, under Linux, there (still) are alternatives.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!
ROFFLE DOFFLE!
LMAO - You've just proven you're a liar - nothing more. A person who is successful wouldn't be stalking &/or harassing me like you do, loser.
* Thanks for proving my point AND what I called you - a pussy liar.
APK
P.S.=> You're reprehensible & disgusting... apk
We believe you APK. Just like we believe you when you make posts pretending to support yourself. The failure with APK is strong and every idea he has ever had is an abortion.
Wow. You've got Internet Tough Guy... on Slashdot.
Just when I didn't think your unintelligible screeds couldn't get more pathetic, you stretch to grab the bar and move it lower.
Good job, loser. 1993 called and wants its hosts file clusterfuck back.
If you were half the security expert you claim to be, you wouldn't:
A. Even give a fuck about what randoms on the Internet say;
B. Need him to give you his name, address, etc. so you can act tough and pretend like you would actually even entertain the idea of a physical confrontation.
Just what the fuck would you do if he gave you that information, anyway? Book a flight? Go bang on his door and yell at him? What if he opened it and shoved a shotgun in your face and told you to get the fuck off his property before he hollowed out your skull like a canoe? After all, you've already left public records of threats of physical violence here for people to see, so a claim of self defense isn't exactly a stretch.
Do you even think before you post this shit? Wait, don't answer, we already know.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
That's unfair, APK is a very stable genius just like that other guy.
Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017
(APK's work), I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon February 11 2016
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015
I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015
I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017
I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017
APK
P.S.=> See subject, those quotes above & you turning up a lying loser (lol) publicly here https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12224626&cid=56774660/ (no wonder you HIDE behind UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts pussy) ... apk
can i disable any and all animations and eyecandy?
See subject: Those quoted do say they like & use my work. Others know it - no "twisting" it from you https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12199712&cid=56751026/ + /.ers don't say it about YOUR "non-existentware" do they? Nope.
* They do of MY work...
APK
P.S.=> You have issues & AGAIN - PROVE YOU HAVE 50 MILLION DOLLARS as you said here https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12224626&cid=56774208/ because until you do YOU ONLY PROVE YOU ARE A LIAR... apk
See subject: Your unidentifiable ac posts lying about yourself & impersonating or stalking ME prove you're psychotic & a delusional lying loon only worth 50 MILLION LIES, lol!
APK
P.S.=> Prove you're what you say you are - you can't. You're full of shit & I can see you in some filthy hovel wishing you hadn't wasted your time + life hating yourself - it's SO obvious - a successful person worth 50 million wouldn't stalk/harass & impersonate me (they'd be too busy maintaining their lives instead)... apk
Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017
(APK's work), I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon February 11 2016
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015
I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015
I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017
I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017
* See subject & answer that question
APK
P.S.=> You're just another FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE OF A LIFE "MachineShedFred" & you KNOW it... apk
See subject: Your unidentifiable ac posts lying about yourself & impersonating + stalking ME prove you're psychotic & a delusional lying loon only worth 50 MILLION LIES, not 50 million dollars you lied about here https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12224626&cid=56774628/
APK
P.S.=> Prove you're what you say you are - you can't. You're full of shit & I can see you in some filthy hovel wishing you hadn't wasted your time + life hating yourself - it's SO obvious - a successful person worth 50 million wouldn't stalk/harass & impersonate me (they'd be too busy maintaining their lives instead)... apk
A noble effort, but trying to reason with ACs is like trying to play chess with pigeons.
Answer the question asked you here "MachineShedFred" FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE OF A LIFE https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12224626&cid=56776160/ internet 'talk, talk, talk' DO NOTHING "ne'er-do-well" you are... ok, BIG TALKER (all talk, no production = you).
APK
P.S.=> "Big BAD Fred" criticizes BUT HAS NOTHING TO SHOW FOR HIS WASTED LIFE, lol... apk
... and buttons that don't look like buttons! How original!
Why, it's almost as if the 'designers' behind the KDE desktop are a bunch of assholes who blindly COPY whatever Crapple/Microsoft does, no matter how unusable it is. Well done! Give yourselves a pat on the back for blindly jumping on the 'flat' bandwagon.
Is there any option to change the 'flat' shit to 3D BUTTONS so we can instantly see what is and isn't a button? Of course not! That would be too easy!
Answer the question asked you here "MachineShedFred" FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE OF A LIFE https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12224626&cid=56776160/ internet 'talk, talk, talk' DO NOTHING "ne'er-do-well" you are... ok, BIG TALKER (all talk, no production = you).
* Little do-nothing PRATTLING WORM = you & you KNOW it (but I did offer you to prove otherwise, only problem is, YOU CAN'T you zero, lol)
APK
P.S.=> "Big BAD Fred" criticizes BUT HAS NOTHING TO SHOW FOR HIS WASTED LIFE behind a FAKE NAME online (anyone can do THAT, especially losers like you), lol... apk
Yet we see fake name for a FAKE LIE OF A LIFE like Wootery run from a simple question apk asks MachineShedFred https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12224626&cid=56776160/
Windows 10 is supported by ads, telemetry and the money you spend on a licence.
Plasma 5 is supported by donations.
Your post is supported by Down's Syndrome.
Plasma isn't much heavier than Xfce actually, and is far more modern. I alternate between them both, and as of 5.10 noticed I was spending more time in Plasma than anything else. When .13 hits the Void repos, with its support for global menu from all kinds of applications, I may switch to it permanently. There's a few small things that still bug me about it, but KDE has finally gotten close to where it was in the 3.5.10 days again.
I was a longtime user of KDE, but switched to XFCE about 7 years ago and haven't looked back. I find it hard to believe that KDE is somehow now not "much heavier" than XFCE, but would like to hear specs about why you say that is so. A quick search found the system requirements, which are heavier for KDE, but I'd like to know what you're referring to with your statement.
Not looking for a holy war, just curious. I really doubt I would go back to KDE because I've tried others (MATE, Cinnamon) and really just prefer XFCE.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017
(APK's work), I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon February 11 2016
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015
I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015
I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017
I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017
* See subject & Answer this question - Do they about YOUR non-existent "HOTAIRWARE", chattering dolt?
APK
P.S.=> You WISH you were me you UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous JEALOUS Jowie "ne'er-do-well" do-nothing ZERO you are.. apk
See subject & via APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p (remove spaces between characters & download).
Yields more security/speed/reliability/anonymity vs. any SINGLE solution (99% of threats = hostnames vs. IP address (that most firewalls use)) more efficiently/FASTER + NATIVELY 4 less!
(... Vs. "Bolt on 'MoAr' illogic-logic" competitors slowing you, hosts speed you up 2 ways (adblocks + hardcodes u spend most time @) vs. competition loaded w/ bugs (DNS/AntiVir) + their overheads (messagepass ('souled-out' to advertiser addons) + filtering drivers) & their complexity leads to exploitation).
* Created in FreePascal/Lazarus 1.8.2 using GTK3 on OpenGL 3.1 via KDE Plasma desktop on Kubuntu 18.04 plus patches.
APK
P.S.=> Enjoy - it's much better vs. the Windows model on many fronts (speed & efficiency, mostly (plus new "merge" feature))... apk
Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017
(APK's work), I've flat out said it's good by BronsCon February 11 2016
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015
I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015
I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017
I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017
* See subject: Best part is this Linux 64-bit model is faster & more efficient (does 2x the work in 1/2 the time, literally)
APK
P.S.=> Enjoy a faster/safer/more reliable internet... apk
Yeah yeah. AC comments on Slashdot are consistently of far worse quality than those posted by 'named' (generally pseudonymous) users.
You two ACs (if you really are two different people) have been 'conversing' at the level of unruly children.
The Internet-tough-guy nonsense? Heaven spare us.
You're a FAKE NAME from your self-delusional phantasyland of your dull brain FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE of a LIFE do-nothing "ne'er-do-well" Wootery!
PROVE you have a 1,000 employee company and are worth 50 million dollars instead of your 50 million lies https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12224626&cid=56774548/ - prove it.
* Otherwise you're 50 million lies you unidentifiable do-nothing "ne'er-do-well"... which you clearly are.
APK
P.S.=> Of course, you've ALREADY PROVEN all I say above about you & "your kind" sitting in your 1 room filthy HOVEL somewhere sucking on the welfare tit, lol (& you KNOW it - now, everyone else does too)... apk
Yea, yea yea (bs) PROVE you have 50 million $ instead of 50 MILLION LIES - ok? You do that, then, we'll talk & MAYBE I'd believe you (not)...
* ... as you can BET that nobody believes you anymore than I do!
(Jealous? Bwaahahahaha! Of a bs artist CLEAR LIAR in yourself?? Please - you think everyone makes "money their God"? Clue: I don't & have enough + am happy w/ my life as is (everything paid off & running my own businesses too doing well for a decade++ no longer having to "take trips" as you're doing "SUPPOSEDLY", probably not (those ARE a pain in the ass imo)).
APK
P.S.=> Douchebag - ANYONE can "talk", anyone (even losers like you), very FEW of us as are a DEMONSTRATABLE DO (like me)... apk
PROVE you have 50 million $ instead of 50 MILLION LIES - ok? You do that, then, we'll talk & MAYBE I'd believe you (not)...
* ... as you can BET that nobody believes you anymore than I do!
ESPECIALLY AS YOU STALK ME BY UNIDENTIFIABLE ANONYMOUS PUSSY POSTS...
Lastly on "NET WORTH"? "NET WORTH" = HUGE illusion (means you're like a drug dealer w/ his gangster roll, all debt that has to ROLLOVER into your next buy, NOT REAL WEALTH DISPOSABLE INCOME & risky as hell, NOT LIQUID & bad risk...)
APK
P.S.=> Douchebag - ANYONE can "talk", anyone (even losers like you), very FEW of us as are a DEMONSTRATABLE DO (like me)... apk
LOL! You're discrediting yourself stalking me by unidentifiable anonymous posts & NOT PROVING you have "product" I do others like & use (even a guy that I do NOT get along w/ is "giving it a go" today here on /. https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12229650&cid=56779724/ & I'll have to wait out his opinion (Linux version IS better by FAR vs. my older Win64 one others ALREADY SAID THEY LIKE & USE https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12224626&cid=56775116/ so it SHOULD "go ok" & I hope he enjoys it...)
* BIG DIFFERENCE between YOU & "Your KIND" (liars & bs artists that stalk me nigh endlessly on /. & for years online elsewhere)? I can DEMONSTRATABLY show even my HOBBIES do well & do well by others...
IF your "product" IS PURE BULLSHIT (which clearly it is)? SORRY - normal people do NOT like "your product" hotairware.
APK
P.S.=> ... & YOU? Just plain CAN'T, lol - see the difference? There's "LOGIC" even an ILLOGIC-LOGIC using liar psycho like YOU should understand (normal people like myself that actually DO things they CAN SHOW, do - not "your kind", lazy "ne'er-do-well" BULLSHIT ARTISTS like yourself, clearly can't)... apk
See subject: What I can show (want more? Ask) is growing as of the past week (EETech1 asked for a link & even PopeRatzo's trying it https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12229650&cid=56779724/ )
* HOW ABOUT YOU "big talker" do-NOTHING zero lazy "ne'er-do-well" STALKER of myself like the psycho nut you are?
(ZERO I can see, & that's what ANYONE NORMAL thinks of "your kind", JEALOUS Jowie, lol...)
APK
P.S.=> Many others here have - but I see ZERO from anyone saying ANYTHING GOOD about a damn thing you've done (which is clearly, nothing, lol)... apk
See subject: Mr. "hotairware" or rather (lol) "notware" vaporware that when I simply ask you to prove your bluster you RUN (where's that 50 million dollars? More like 50 MILLION LIES, lol!).
APK
P.S.=> You really, Really, REALLY MADE ME LAUGH on "Net Worth" illusion you kept trying to sound "so big" on (apparently you have a 2" dick if "money is your God" & YOUR "sense of worth" (lol, "net worth" ILLUSION))... apk
I even said that + you're running (where's that 50 million lies, net worth ILLUSION non-liquid). I did abstractions others say are "difficult" https://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12218352&cid=56765568/ - not me https://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12218352&cid=56765500/ ... & unlike "your kind" & YOU? I can demonstrate REAL working MULTIPLATFORM product (even in my hobbies like this one).
* A something others here LIKE & USE (in an older inferior model no less) https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12224626&cid=56776634/ - & you?
ZERO!
By the way: I didn't start this "topic" - you JEALOUS JOWIES did & I shut you down by making you all RUN, lol... like you.
By the way, again - PROVE you have 50 million (net worth non-liquid ILLUSION, lol).
APK
P.S.=> That MAY not be your fault but LAZINESS is curable (necessity is the mother of invention & creativity) but perhaps NOT in your case WELFARE SUCKER (on the tit), lol - after all, what do YOU have to show for yourself? Nothing... apk
Yeah, you said. My points remain.