There is now a 0% screen brightness setting! Huzzah! (for those who don’t have sensitive eyes: it used to be possible to lower brightness to 1% in the power menu, but hitting the adjustment buttons could only lower it to 5%, which was noticeably brighter than 1%)
Screenshare (Discord; Jitsi) is broken. No Wayland for me.
The new system sound scheme sounds contemporary and inoffensive. It would be fine if it weren’t for the way the volume-pop sounds like an error notification. I’ll stick to the old scheme.
The taskbar is one pixel shorter than the width of my screen (background exposed on the right).
The auto-hide taskbar is now much trickier to raise. I’ve gotta hit the bottom just right to coax it out.
Widgets are broken now. I don’t know what I expected…
The UI/menu changes are too subtle for me to notice.
When connecting to bluetooth, it now syncs the sound to what’s playing through speakers, so there’s not a gap in what you hear.
Konsole and system fonts stayed as set, but Kate reverted its font to default.
My ctrl-shift-esc shortcut to raise the system monitor no longer works, but there’s a new default shortcut, super-esc. That’s fine.
Laptop battery life predictions appear to have been un-learned.
On one of my systems, clicking on “Open Terminal” in Dolphin’s toolbar or context menu doesn’t work (Konsole tries to open but crashes). On the other system, it works fine . Using X11 on both.
Yeah, I noticed this too. I thought maybe it was just me.
Quite annoying, though it doesn’t happen on every minimize with me. Just sometimes.
For anyone who may not be aware, pressing F9 restores (toggles) the Places panel.
It’s been reported so hopefully it’ll get resolved soon. It was doing my head in when I was making those splashscreens as I often work with multiple dolphin windows, GIMP and settings all open at once.
For the first one, you can use this command: qdbus org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement /org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/BrightnessControl setBrightness 1 ← its the brightness %
Another new thing: poking the upper-left corner now opens the ‘overview’ perspective. I disabled this because I frankly don’t understand the point of multiple desktops (have you heard of alt-tab?!), but presumably this was something that a lot of people were doing.
Shake to find cursor is probably the coolest feature added to kde 6… Now I don’t have to start searching for my cursor when it feels to play hide and seek with me…
Feature available in Desktop Effects and disabled by default…
Cursor gets pixelated when enlarged which is bummer but atleast it is there…
Gnome does this way better with proper setting assigned for it as well (not by default but with add ons)
Wow, I’m getting way better performance from games. On x11 I was barely able to run Divinity Original Sin 2 on the lowest settings but on Wayland I’m able to play it quite comfortably with medium settings.
Do you have AMD or Nvidia card? I have the latter, which might explain it. I want to say I was seeing tearing, but that wasn’t it. It was more like very rapid stuttering when trying to smoothly pan the camera.
Previously, there was some feature (I didn’t know whether it was part of Plasma) that could detect when a video was playing and prohibit the display from sleeping. Now this feature seems to be gone.
Yeah, I miss that too (also gone in X11 session)! When a video is playing in the browser or in the video player, this should not be considered as idle! That’s annoying. Ideally, the night light should also be able to detect and deactivate when the video player is active.
. Using X11 on both.
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