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AUA: We are the Plasma dev team. Ask Us Anything about Plasma 6, gear 24.02, Frameworks 6 and everything else in the upcoming Megarelease. (lemmy.kde.social)

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David, Nate, Josh, Marco, Carl, and Niccolò are here ready to answer all your questions on Plasma (all versions), Gear, Frameworks, Wayland (and how it affects KDE's software), and everything in between.

Fire away, Lemmy!

We were expecting to be done in an hour and we have past the 2-hour mark already! Time flies when you are having fun.

Thank you for all the questions and the welcoming and friendly atmosphere, but the devs must get back to making Plasma 6 great.

Please keep the conversation going and KDE contributors will continue to answer over the next days as time permits.

Thank you all!!

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[-] leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 6 points 10 months ago

What’s the best or recommended way to test out Plasma 6 RC2?

And

What has been the hardest problem to solve moving to Qt6?

[-] notmart@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 10 months ago

To just test out without any risk and not touching any running system i would suggest a live image such as KDE Neon Unstable which has dailiy updated snapshots of our software stack

as moving to Qt6 from a developer POV, It has been remarkably uneventful. there are api changes for sure (Especially on the QML side of things) but the changes are not as great as say, Qt4 to Qt5.

[-] leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 2 points 10 months ago

Thank you so much for the info. I think I'll be grabbing a Neon ISO and give it a whirl on real hardware. Gotta do it right, ya know? :)

[-] Pointedstick@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 10 months ago

What’s the best or recommended way to test out Plasma 6 RC2?

Neon Testing in a VM (or on bare metal if you're adventurous). Arch with the kde-unstable repo is good too, but that also includes a snapshot of the unreleased Qt 6.7 which introduces more bugs.

What has been the hardest problem to solve moving to Qt6?

Personally I'd have to say the large number of API and behavior changes in QtQuick that Qt 6 has brought. We use QtQuick very heavily throughout KDE, so this has required a lot of mandatory porting work, more than in our QtWidgets-based software. And there have even been changes between Qt 6.5, 6.6, and 6.7, so it's still a bit of a moving target

[-] leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the answers! You and the others on the team are doing a fantastic job of convincing me to not use any other desktop :)

[-] herzenschein@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago

What’s the best or recommended way to test out Plasma 6 RC2?

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