Excellent progress was made this week towards the goal of full sound theme support in Plasma 6, among other topics–including some important performance work for KWin!
I want to see KDE focus on its UX a bit more and break a bit of harmful backwards compatibility. Having multiple rows in the window header like the combination of a title bar a menu bar and an action bar that makes their combination tall AF, having a thousand disjointed panes, apps being completely rigid and non-responsive and using dated customisation options that only lead to inconsistent and ugly results when tampered with, and rejection of design paradigms that get praised and adopted by everyone like headerbars, all in the name of old theming technologies that depend on practically technical debt, like X11. KDE needs to adopt a vision that looks towards the future, not the past. Until then, I’ll stay in GNOME.
I wouldn’t use Plasma if I didn’t have the option to turn on menus. The hamburger menu was a horrible design for desktops. Give me a title bar, menu bar, and toolbar. Small screen devices might benefit from minimization but not the desktop.
headerbars
Nothing against your personal preference but I take a good global menu integration over headerbars every single day 🙂.
Yep a more minimalistic approach to UI/UX would be great for KDE but I don’t think we will see it in Plasma 6
Tangentially, is there a defined timeline with Neon for getting Plasma 6 once it’s released? What about when the new Ubuntu LTS drops?
KDE Neon is rolling release for DE. So it’s pretty much couple days waiting once Plasma 6 released or just instantly released.
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