You can install maliit but it will pull in the entire qt5 kf5 bloat.

Maliit is being replaced by plasma-keyboard which is supposed to be released with Plasma 6.6

Maliit is really abandoned, still based on Qt5

Gimp supports wayland, Krita doesnt. So not at all.

Also plugin support is better with gimp afaik.

I dont get it. Krita doesnt even launch if X11 support is disabled.

These are some crazy big things!!

Plasma-login is nice, has some very needed things

Plasma-keyboard is essential for anyone on a convertible or even tablet, as the old maliit keyboard is abandonware

The usb portal will be really useful

Ocr support in spectacle! This exists on proprietary android but not AOSP, and on windows too. Really neat. I hope the integration is nice, this is a really big UI task.

All these articles…

I listened to the Tech over Tea episode with the GNOME guy about their new systemd dependence. Any regular distro uses systemd, everything is free software.

Nobody is forcing anything.

KDE is building new tech, streamlined, minimal, performant. And yeah that uses systemd.

But if people want to generalize components so they can work on OpenRC or worse init systems, I highly doubt that they will block it.

Or that they will block launching startplasma-wayland from any other login manager, which currently already works. This is just their login manager, with way more features that are crucial for making it a windows competitor, like headless RDP support.

Here is the podcast episode btw

While it is a cool project, a release on Feburary is kind of crazy, that is so fast! I will try it a few months later (on NixOS which is 100% dependent on systemd as systemd is nice)

Did you know that Debian uses systemd but neither systemd-boot nor systemd-resolved? So you have an extremely shitty and slow boot and no DNS-over-TLS support. Amazing.

Bro fears normal distros

What is the cause?

Yes, as libadwaita is just one platform theme of GTK4.

Is there a list of good GIMP 3 compatible plugins?

Oh damn I always assumed it was just video

TIL!

But to be honest, that was also pretty much before standardization. I have never seen anyone use Meta for the Alt key.

Wait there wasnt a Windows key since forever?

I never saw the Alt key referred to as anything else than Alt

On MacOS it is option or something

Tbh custom libadwaitas are kind of how GTK4 is supposed to be used.

QT is built from the ground up to be used by anyone

Well, KDEs Qt fork (I think they have one). Qt is released proprietary and the older versions are open source. Which may make it pretty well funded but also always behind on updates.

just a toolkit for GNOME.

Tbh after reading a recent blog post, I think this is not true at all.

Like theming can be shipped as part of the platform toolkit or something.

Budgie made a crazy turn. From a legacy GTK based desktop to Wayland and Qt??

I dont know why Qt but I guess it is good

No they are interchangeable