As someone who still remembers when Plasma4 was announced it feels really nice to see just how little KDE has changed over the past two decades - all changes are pretty much optimizations and stability fixes. Goes to show how well-thought-out the vision for Plasma was from the start.

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Plasma 6 just came out, and it contains a whole lot of new UI and features. It's much more than just security fixes.

[–] mirshafie 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right, I'm living in the past. Still though, Plasma6 just feels like a polished continuation of what Plasma has been all along. And that's a good thing. When Plasma7 comes out in 12 years I expect it to be the same.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Plasma 7 is being renamed Desktop For Plasma365 2027 edition.
Everything is electron apps. Native apps are ran as web assembly inside an electron app.
There will be no UI, only a shitty AI chatbox that is always suggesting results from askjeeves (and takes 5 seconds before it suggests anything from your local machine).
Oh, and it's a monthly licence now.
And it's actually just a laggy local UI of the actual desktop that is ran in the cloud on a container with 512mb ram and 1 CPU.

Oh wait, this isn't microslop.
Good things on Linux (generally) stay the same or get better, not different so "line goes up".
I think I'm still getting over the windows PTSD

[–] mirshafie 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I'm expecting a fully streamed experience - compute offloaded to datacenters, beamed to your device via a swarm of satellites that block out the night sky, with an emphasis on a voice controlled user interface.