Plasma 5.23 is in the Arch repos

Desktop Environments Plasma
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You can always install Q4OS in a VM if you want some nostalgia.

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Err, thatā€™s based on Debian I think? CDE on Arch perhaps? :wink: Or Endeavour of course.

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But what I dislike a little is the overhaul of the application launcher. The height is calculated so that the font is cut off in the categories. Looks stupid :frowning:

KDE_Favoriten-Layout

Perhaps that is also due to my screen resolution in relation to the font size :thinking:

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I donā€™t think youā€™ll regret the move. :smirk:

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When you are in Dolphin or Kate, press F4 and now you have a terminal to work in with a single keystroke.

Got to give credit where credit is due. Thank you @Kresimir for teaching me that trick. When coding in Kate, F4 yielding a terminal window is almost like an IDE.

Pudge

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Indeed, and if you install a language server, Kate truly becomes a small IDE. I just love it, itā€™s a text editor that makes me happy whenever I write code.

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Kate is one of the first things I install even on a non-plasma setup. That and Krusader. I donā€™t care if they pull in a few KDE deps, for me they are both worth it.

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I do the same with DeadBeeF, even if it comes from the GTK corner. No matter if it comes with GTK stuff (GIMP does that anyway), I donā€™t know a better music engine. KDE can handle it very well.

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Yeh, same with DeadBeef. I think itā€™s the best one on Linux, love the Graphic EQ and the easy way to theme the colours. Iā€™m not really into the ones that catalogue everything and all that extra stuff. I do like Strawberry though (a fork of Clementine). I have it installed but I donā€™t really use it. If you set up DeadBeef with custom keyboard shortcuts it gets really good!

Oops, we are getting way Off-topic here! :laughing:

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Especially the global keyboard shortcuts are very useful. It reminds me a lot of my former beloved foobar200.

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Yeah quite similar I think. Never used it as I used Macs before Linux distros but all the Windows users rate that App very highly. The best one on the Mac was/is Decibel AFAIK, but like many things itā€™s not open source or free. Each selection gets pre-loaded into RAM before playback which is nice.

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OK, never used a Mac or anything else from the bitten apple. But it makes you think that people with a brand new MacBook prefer to install Linux on it :slight_smile:

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Today again lots of KDE updates! I guess plasmaā€™s in the pipeline!

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