170
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Bro666@lemmy.kde.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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!!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] macattack@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

What is one KDE feature developed within the last few years that you think is extremely productive/helpful yet is rarely utilized/talked about.

[-] Pointedstick@lemmy.kde.social 20 points 9 months ago

Plasma Vaults! It's the best implementation of having a little encrypted bucket to put your important files in that I've ever used, on any platform. It's very well integrated into Plasma as a 1st-party supported feature, and it works wonderfully.

[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I use plasma vaults! Its great for homework folders and tax information!

One frustration with vaults though is that theres no clean way to make a portable vault on a USB stick or backed up to a cloud provider (nextcloud, google drive, etc) without digging into weird dot-folder paths and manually entering links to these in a text config file. FUSE-style integration would be rad.

EDIT: The primary use case for this would be to be able to carry sensitive information around like PII, tax, password vaults, family photos, documents, and so on, in such a way that you always have it on you (like on a keychain) or backed up elsewhere, and would be especially useful in cases of disaster - but if you drop and lose it somewhere, a malicious actor doesnt suddenly have your data.

[-] Pointedstick@lemmy.kde.social 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's a fantastic idea. I've had the same thought myself.

One challenge with making it portable is that you need something that will work on any machine you plug it into. If there's an emergency and you need the data on there when you don't have your main computer, it's likely that the machine you plug it into isn't running Plasma. For this reason I think a hardware-encrypted flash drive with physical number buttons on it suits the use case better. That way you decrypt it with your fingers, and then the contents are readable on any random Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS etc device you have to plug it into.

[-] semperverus@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Thats a good point. I wonder how difficult it would be to package vaults as a standalone .exe or get it onto the Microsoft store like how Kate is.

If I have skills in python and mostly work on ETL-style scripts, how difficult would it be to jump in and try to make this happen? Im just now learning ADO pipelines at work, but I don't really work with compiled code.

I feel like i'd be jumping into the deep end.

[-] Pointedstick@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 9 months ago

Packaging it as a standalone binary for different platforms seems like a good plan. I have no idea how hard this might be to do though, sorry. But you can always propose it in one of KDE's chat channels or mailing lists and see if it piques anyone else's interest or they feel like helping you do it!

[-] Certainity45@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

I see a huge potential for mobile users in Vault.

[-] davidre@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 9 months ago

It has not been developed in the last few years but always krunner! A recent-ish feature that was already in Plasma 5 is to bind key presses to your extra mouse buttons or tablet tool buttons

[-] macattack@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Moving to Linux w/ a Logitech MX3 mouse, I legit spent 2-3 days troubleshooting across solaar and piper before I got logiops to work. I'll disable it and dig around the KDE settings to try for a more integrated solution that is easily editable.

[-] notmart@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 9 months ago

to me, the new kwin tiling that first appeared on 5.27, but this will probably change, as feature development on it is about to reopen :)

this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2024
170 points (97.2% liked)

KDE

5207 readers
70 users here now

KDE is an international technology team creating user-friendly free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. KDE’s software runs on GNU/Linux, BSD and other operating systems, including Windows.

Plasma 6 Bugs

If you encounter a bug, proceed to https://bugs.kde.org, check whether it has been reported.

If it hasn't, report it yourself.

PLEASE THINK CAREFULLY BEFORE POSTING HERE.

Developers do not look for reports on social media, so they will not see it and all it does is clutter up the feed.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS