Linux

Focus might be a bit much,
I only have a single feature wish, and that is to have file copy operation progress show correctly.
As it is, if I copy a few gigabytes to an USB stick, it very quickly shows as finished.
But it can take up to a couple of minutes before the operation is actually finished, and the stick can be unmounted and removed.

The easiest way to check I know of, is tom open a terminal and simply use sync. And it seems immensely primitive to me that I have to do that.

This is an age old problem for copying files that began to occur on PC systems way back around 1991, when write cache became a thing for disk operations. And honestly it makes me sad that this problem still isn't solved now 35 years later. 😥

Otherwise I think KDE is doing great with their desktop, except I think it should just be called KDE desktop, and not that other thing they call it now.

Being able to use a GUI for creating mounts is something people have asked for.

I know I can use smb4k to mount, maybe it could he extended to write a mount point at boot.

I know for me it's trivial to simply write a systemd mount rule, but it seems other people want to do it with a GUI.

I know this is a weirdo hope, but I personally would wish to see KDE take a more clear stance against LLM code submissions, and to move away from relying on systemd so much. But I suppose most regular users would prefer more tangible features and changes.

Do they still do 15 minute bugs? That could still use some work.

Occasionally I get an itch to try Plasma and immediately get disappointed every time as I encounter some sort of bug just setting up the panel. Last time I tried was 6.6.5, so it wasn't just a point 0 software issue.

As a side note, I still get so confused by the "new" panel/desktop edit mode introduced in 6.1.

Stability and bug fixes.

bugfixes and qol

Plasma bigscreen or maybe something gaming console like screen for tv with focus on controller based input/navigation

A replacement for what we had with khotkey that allows to intercept and replace key codes, both globally and for specific applications. Bonus points if it also has global mouse gestures.

Issues here and here.

Add more panel types and weird customsation. Im really looking forward to the union update where theming gets easier. Hate svg but can manage CSS.

This surely has more to do with upstream Qt, but I wish they can give way to people make things for KDE with Rust/Zig/C3/Whathaveyounow. Like, you know, besides the C++/QML combo (and the PyQt bindings thing).

That and overlooked apps like Falkon that have so much potential but could get some more love.

Good remote desktop support.

(Aka make KRDP actually work)

If they made a 1:1 easy to deploy Gnome-like template, I'd switch in an instant.

Screen sharing in video conferencing software (bbb, webex, meetme etc). It just doesn't work consistently. Sometimes (rarely) it just works as expected. Sometimes everybody sees a "black screen with a mouse pointer". Sometimes your screenshare is tiny and squeezed into a quarter of the virtual screen. Sometimes it's enlarged instead and doesn't fit into the virtual screen. Sometimes the popup (Wayland recording bridge???) doesn't show up. It's russian roulette basically, this shit definitely needs more eyeballs.

Unattended remote desktop has been the major sticking point for my switch, I have gotten it to work once I have logged in, but someone needs to log me in after a system reboot. I heard they were working on this with the new login manager, but I haven't heard anything more about it.

Go back to 3.5, that was the best!