Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Sputnik_tr_02KDE Plasma is awesome, it was actually one of the reasons that I switch to Linux back in the day.

Plasma isn't that old, is it? Hell, I remember the KDE 1.0 release and why Gnome was created in the first place (literally because Qt wasn't GPL).

I tend to think that the Steam Deck should be Plasma Mobile unless docked though. Or the Deck needs a stylus... using KDE on that small of a screen with how many options it has will be... not as great as if they used Gnome.

Say what you will about Gnome-shell, it does sort of succeed at being touch friendly and desktop friendly at the same time, where KDE has a separate shell for touch / small screen footprints.

KDE will certainly improve in that regard, and not only the shell. KDE mobile goes way beyond the shell and making plasmashell touch friendly isn't really the problem.
Regarding Stylus: You realize the Deck comes with 2 quite advanced touchpads and a LOT of buttons? I'd be surprised if we couldn't get some quite comfortable mouse simulation/input that way.

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Quoting: junibegoodI installed a distribution with KDE Plasma (Netrunner) on a brand new laptop a few months ago. It was a very good desktop experience, but even with all effects turned off and tlp installed, it was a huge battery sink and I had to switch to something else. Now with LMCE, my battery lasts 3 times more.

I can't tell how much of this issue was directly related to KDE or was caused by this specific distribution, because I changed both at the same time. But in any case, the amount of features in KDE Plasma must have a cost in ressources, even if it's very well optimized. This should be a concern for a handheld device like the Steam Deck.

I'm sure that if these battery killers exist in KDE base, the SteamDeck is the best chance to get them fixed.

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Quoting: omer666I've been using both KDE and GNOME and I like them both, however I prefer the GNOME workflow.
Nevertheless we can only rejoice when a project such as a complete open source desktop environment gets backed by a company such as Valve, because everyone will benefit from it.

I very much prefer my Frankenstein Gnome/Xfce setup to KDE, yet I think KDE was a good choice. KDE has done work toward touchscreen usage for a long time already, gnome has more or less just started. KDE are pretty open to changes and optional features from external entities, gnome really only knows those damn javascript/dbus desktop extensions and is notoriously breaking their javascript/dbus API again and again... With each gnome update I pray that those extensions that make the system shine for me will continue to work of be fixed in the next weeks...
In KDE, Valve have a much bigger chance to get their contributions upstreamed and that's where we want them.

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I'm assuming that mobile and mixed platforms will profit the most from this. My guess is that plasma mobile will mature a lot faster now, since people would clearly benefit from a mobile UI when using a 7" screen on the go. Also plasma desktop and mobile might turn from different sessions to different states of the presentation, hopefully per screen.
We want the same for future plasma based phones. When hooked up to a dock with a mouse and a screen available, the second screen should be a full desktop.

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Quoting: constcheater! The buttons can't be colored in the tool, can they?

Grady updated the page with more color options. :)

Nice. Now I could finish a scheme based on Sweet-Mars KColor Scheme :)

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Quoting: dpanterPresenting the GOL Deck, a.k.a. GOLdie

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cheater! The buttons can't be colored in the tool, can they?
Anyway, this looks slick.

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Imagine every colored Deck came with a fitted KDE color scheme :)

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Wow, some of those schemes look amazing. Kind of states how well designed this machine really is.

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Quoting: wvstolzingI haven't tinkered much with Pipewire yet, but I hope it keeps this 'network transparency'.

Sadly not really, that's one of the things still missing, last time I checked. It was also much harder to create virtual devices. Hopefully, those things will come soon.

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I think Frozenbyte is one of many developers that got a totally wrong idea of Linux port rentability because of the Humble Indy Bundles. I have like 3 licenses for all of their games ported to Linux and I guess that's true for all of us who were gaming on Linux before Steam on Linux really got a thing. Now sure we didn't buy their games on Steam any more, we already had them. Then they looked at sales statistics and we got irrelevant. No surprise, really.
Anyway, they were among the first to jump the Humble Linux train that got everything started and I'll never forget that. Linux gaming today only exists because of some critical events and the HIBs were a key part of this.

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