assuming nothing goes horribly wrong
0:02
plasma 6.1 is set to release in about a
0:05
week this right here is the T date by
0:07
the time this comes out the tar date's
0:09
probably already passed the actual
0:11
release is on the 18th now 6.0 has not
0:16
been a perfect release it's not been a
0:19
repeat of kd4 but it's not been without
0:22
its bugs some of them new others just
0:25
being discovered and 6.1 is set to be a
0:29
really
0:30
really cool release so I thought hey
0:33
let's go through some of the changes and
0:35
just talk about what's going on now
0:37
massive props to Nate Graham for doing
0:40
his weekly series on KD changes this
0:43
video is made considerably easier
0:45
because that exists the first change is
0:47
fairly minor but I think it is going to
0:48
be really noticeable right now if you
0:50
click the shutdown button you'll see
0:52
sleep hyate restart shut down and log
0:56
out it's not an interface specific to
0:59
the button you click
1:00
now it's going to act more like a
1:02
confirmation prompt so if you click shut
1:04
down you're just going to see shut down
1:06
now and cancel I think in the long run
1:10
this is going to be a better way to do
1:11
it but it is going to take a little bit
1:14
of getting used to the second thing is
1:16
fixing something that looks like a bug
1:18
if you press alt tab on a desktop that
1:21
has no windows open all you see is this
1:24
just empty box here it doesn't tell you
1:27
what's actually going on now it's going
1:29
to say no open Windows is it a big deal
1:33
not really but it does give you a clear
1:35
indication of what's actually going on
1:37
are you an enjoyer of desktop icons
1:40
personally I'm not but if you do and you
1:42
right click on your desktop one of the
1:44
options in your list is refresh desktop
1:48
this is going to be removed now the
1:51
option to refresh is still going to be
1:52
there if you press F5 but they felt like
1:55
having it in the context menu just
1:57
clutched the context menu for something
1:59
that most people people never actually
2:01
use and something that doesn't actually
2:04
work properly something really cool is
2:06
fake session restore right now on
2:09
Wayland if your desktop crashes all of
2:11
the windows you had open are just gone
2:13
when you restart the desktop you need to
2:15
restart all of the windows you had
2:17
individually now there is a proper
2:20
session restore being worked on there is
2:21
a wh and protocol being developed there
2:23
are toolkit changes being done but this
2:26
is still a work in progress the stop gap
2:29
for that is when you restart the desktop
2:31
all the windows you had open just get
2:34
reopened and yes you've lost your work
2:36
but at least you have your windows back
2:39
now someone might say oh on X11 we have
2:42
sesma Store working properly
2:44
anyway kind of there are a lot of bugs
2:46
with it a lot of applications don't
2:48
behave properly and it's kind of just a
2:50
mess the whand solution in the long run
2:53
is going to be better but until then
2:56
fake SES restore will have to do are you
2:59
someone who's bothered when your cursor
3:00
is visible when you're typing watching a
3:02
video or other situations where you're
3:04
not using your mouse well there's going
3:06
to be a solution for that a new desktop
3:09
effect to hide your cursor after a
3:11
period of inactivity now sensibly it is
3:14
going to be disabled by default just to
3:16
make sure that new users aren't confused
3:18
about where the cursor went but I for
3:20
one am absolutely going to use this are
3:23
you someone who makes use of the Legacy
3:25
X11 app support where you can pass your
3:27
keys into X11 apps and have Global
3:30
shortcuts working well there is going to
3:32
be an addition to what this let you do
3:35
allowing Mouse button events to also be
3:37
sent in now I don't know what context
3:40
you would want that to happen but for
3:44
whatever reason if you want that it is
3:46
now going to be supported now onto a bug
3:49
if you try to make use of the desktop
3:51
Cube effect and you have less than three
3:54
virtual desktop setup the minimum to
3:56
make use of the desktop Cube it is now
3:59
not going to silently fail instead it's
4:02
going to call you a and tell you
4:04
that you don't have enough virtual
4:06
desktop set up this is one of the issues
4:08
I ran into in my KDE stream and I think
4:12
this is a great change now how do you
4:14
feel about multiple monitors in my case
4:17
I make use of three of them now there is
4:20
an issue when you're trying to do things
4:22
at the edge of your screen there's no
4:26
virtual border between your screens if a
4:29
window goes
4:30
slightly too far it's already on the
4:32
second screen what if there was a way to
4:35
have a virtual barrier a padding between
4:38
the monitors to make hitting the edge
4:40
considerably easier well now there is
4:43
going to be this might be a change you
4:45
just simply don't care about but I do
4:48
think having the option there is a nice
4:50
thing to have also note this is going to
4:53
be Wayland only another change is going
4:55
to be to the list of default desktop
4:57
effects one of them changing is Shake
5:00
cursor by default right now it is
5:03
disabled by default what this does is
5:06
when you shake the cursor it makes the
5:08
cursor bigger this is very much an
5:11
accessibility feature it makes finding
5:13
your cursor on a 4K screen considerably
5:15
easier especially when you haven't set
5:16
up scaling yet and going forward that is
5:20
going to be enabled by default I do
5:24
think this makes sense as an
5:25
accessibility feature and for those 4K
5:28
screens but I do expect Downstream Dr to
5:31
end up disabling this by default again
5:34
here is another bug fix direct scan out
5:37
is going to work for rotated
5:40
displays need I say more are you an RGB
5:44
enjoyer do you like all of your colors
5:46
matching well there is now going to be
5:49
the option to sync your accent color in
5:51
KDE with the color on your keyboard I
5:55
have an RGB keyboard here I have it set
5:58
to one of the default settings I never
6:00
change it but if you do like changing it
6:03
hey there you go keep in mind this is
6:05
going to be very very keyboard dependent
6:08
some of them work great others don't ad
6:10
do so don't expect everything to be
6:13
perfect here are you a gamer have you
6:16
noticed that on Wayland sometimes your
6:18
mouse behaves really weirdly like you'll
6:20
click a bunch and suddenly be facing a
6:23
completely different direction or you
6:25
try to change your camera position and
6:27
it feels like you're at 100,000 DPI
6:30
these are known about and should be
6:33
fixed in 6.1 this does say 6.03 here but
6:38
people were testing things and in that
6:40
version it still seemed to be a little
6:41
bit buggy but trying out the 6.1 version
6:44
it seems like it's good this one has a
6:47
lot of moving Parts modifier only
6:50
shortcuts what I mean is when you press
6:53
a key like The Meta key this is a
6:55
shortcut to open up your menu down here
6:57
I've disabled it because I don't like
7:00
now you are going to be able to easily
7:04
rebind these which is good because it'll
7:07
mean that I just unbinded it obviously
7:10
for other people you might have
7:11
different things you want to do with
7:13
your modifier only shortcuts but for me
7:16
I'm just not a fan of them this one
7:17
you've probably already heard about
7:19
whether it be from my video or the
7:21
Articles out there or anything else but
7:23
explicit sync in the desktop Nvidia has
7:27
support for the whand solution in the
7:28
Nvidia 55 5 drivers all we were waiting
7:31
on was desktop support and Nvidia on
7:34
whand is I'm not going to say perfect
7:37
but is going to be mostly good there's
7:41
probably still other issues that need to
7:42
be dealt with but at least your desktop
7:45
is not going to be flickering now some
7:47
people might already be using explicit
7:49
sync because some dros are backporting
7:52
the patch but 6.1 is when everybody's
7:56
going to have it did you know that in
7:58
the window overview if you middle click
8:00
on one of these desktops it will delete
8:03
it I didn't know that and it deletes it
8:07
without any sort of confirmation going
8:10
forward that is no longer going to
8:13
happen now I don't think they should
8:15
just get rid of the middle click
8:16
deletion there probably should be some
8:19
sort of confirmation prompt but the
8:21
argument for removing it is there is
8:23
already this delete button in the corner
8:25
anyway so it feels kind of redundant
8:27
speaking of deletions are you user of a
8:30
fingerprint scanner well there was a
8:32
button to delete all of your saved
8:34
fingerprints that button is now going to
8:36
be removed I don't think it should be I
8:40
think this is another situation where it
8:42
should just be behind a confirmation
8:44
prompt the reason why they're removing
8:46
it is because they don't have a
8:49
confirmation prompt if you accidentally
8:51
click this button all of your Sav
8:53
fingerprints would just be deleted and
8:55
you can have 10 saved fingerprints
8:59
I get it right I get why they want to
9:01
remove it but the prompt just makes way
9:04
more sense to me another minor change
9:06
but somebody realized that setting the
9:08
time on the NightLight with an input
9:11
field is bad and there's probably a
9:14
better way to set a time now it's going
9:18
to work like this so you have two
9:20
separate Fields one for the hour one for
9:22
the minute and there's also a button
9:25
there to increment the number setting a
9:27
global theme is going to have a more
9:29
refined interface as you go and enable
9:32
the individual parts of your Global
9:34
theme is going to give you a clear
9:36
indication of exactly what is going to
9:38
be changing is this going to resolve the
9:41
issue that happened with global themes
9:42
before no because that was due to a bug
9:45
in the way the global theme was written
9:47
but at least when you are dealing with
9:49
global themes it's a lot more clear that
9:52
it's not just a theme I haven't really
9:55
encountered this one myself but
9:56
apparently in chromium based browsers if
9:59
you drag and drop a file into it it
10:03
might just crash or just completely
10:06
freeze that's a problem that problem
10:10
shouldn't happen anymore support for
10:12
triple buffering so normally with vsync
10:15
you have the frame being shown and the
10:17
frame waiting to be shown with triple
10:19
buffering you have the frame being shown
10:22
and then two spots for frames waiting to
10:24
be shown this allows for potentially
10:27
more consistent frame timing potentially
10:30
smoother experiences and overall is just
10:33
a better way to do things it might be
10:36
completely unnoticeable to you it might
10:38
be a massive Improvement but it is nice
10:41
to have there in the cases where it is
10:43
going to be a big change I have talked a
10:45
lot about global shortcut support and
10:48
especially the portal to make it
10:50
possible with Native whand apps and
10:55
finally somebody is actually
10:58
implementing the portal so now hopefully
11:02
applications will try to use the
11:05
portal we're still going to wait a while
11:08
but at least somebody's taken the first
11:10
step now I've talked about this in great
11:12
detail in a recent video but we are also
11:14
getting the improved desktop edit mode I
11:18
think ultimately it is a big Improvement
11:20
I think there is still a lot of work
11:22
that could be done with it but is much
11:26
much better than what we have are you a
11:29
screen saer enjoyer while screen saver
11:32
is not going to be directly supported
11:34
but there is going to be a fairly good
11:37
approximation what you're going to be
11:39
able to do is have your lock screen
11:41
automatically unlock without needing to
11:43
enter a password this is better than
11:45
nothing are you not an enjoyer of really
11:48
annoying system sounds that were made 30
11:50
plus years ago that kind of sound
11:53
terrible well plasma is going to do a
11:56
lot more interception of these sounds
11:59
overriding these sounds and make them
12:02
sound more pleasant now I don't use the
12:05
weather applet if I want to know the
12:06
weather I just open the curtain but if
12:09
you do use it and if for whatever reason
12:12
information is not currently available
12:14
it is going to tell you information is
12:16
not currently available this seems to be
12:18
a common Trend in 6.1 let's stop having
12:22
silent errors silent errors are bad on
12:27
the tiling editor rather than using the
12:29
terms vertical and horizontal split now
12:32
it says split left and right or split
12:35
top and bottom did it need to change not
12:38
really there are icons here which
12:39
indicate what is going to happen but I
12:42
guess it's a fine change as well plasma
12:45
no longer dies if too many windows are
12:48
open now we're talking having over a 100
12:51
windows open here I have never had this
12:54
happen myself I didn't know it happened
12:57
but it shouldn't happen anymore now is
13:00
there a normal situation where it is
13:02
going to happen probably not but it
13:05
shouldn't happen nonetheless and the
13:07
very last change I want to mention to me
13:10
is a very very important change and it
13:13
should have never been a problem and it
13:15
should have been fixed during plasma 5
13:18
the cash bug now if you have your cash
13:21
on slow storage plasma is not constantly
13:25
trying to read and write from your cash
13:28
locking up up your entire desktop if you
13:30
use a desktop
13:32
effect good job I don't know why this
13:35
ever had to happen in the first place
13:37
there was no reason to be using the cach
13:39
like this disabling it didn't cause any
13:43
problems so that's good this is by no
13:47
means a full change log for plma 6.1
13:51
there is so much else changing so many
13:53
bug fixes happening and I see why a lot
13:56
of people said hey Brody maybe you
13:59
should wait until 6.1 or 6.2 to actually
14:01
use plasma because it looks like this
14:03
release is going to be massively
14:06
improving the desktop so let me know are
14:09
you a plasma user maybe you are waiting
14:12
for Debian to ship plasma 6 maybe you're
14:15
already using it and you're trying out
14:17
the beta 6.1 I would love to know so if
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you like the video go like the video and
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if you really like the video and you
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people over here check out the patreon
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14:33
and soon I'll be on Cosmic though
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