@kde I’m quite happy with the Plasma6 release, but I have number of regression with respect to Plasma5.

The worst, by far, is that lockscreen seems to be broken. I use password or fingerprint, with pam configured to ask for fingerprint after password failure. When I unlock after sleep, the greeter only displays an “unlock” button with an open lock icon. Clicking it does nothing. If I manually trigger the screen locker, I can unlock once, but on the second try it usually hangs.

Second problem: touchpad gestures in wayland. It was already a pain that one could not personalize these actions, but at least the defaults were ok for me (3 finger up/down for desktop grid/present windows). And I could use fusuma for more.
The new defaults hijacks all 3-finger gestures to scroll one virtual desktop up/down left/right which I find useless.

And all those widgets which have not been ported yet, and probably never will. I tried to give a quick look at the two I used most, but it is too far away from my kind of programming.

  • Zamundaaa
    7·
    10 months ago

    It was already a pain that one could not personalize these actions, but at least the defaults were ok for me (3 finger up/down for desktop grid/present windows). And I could use fusuma for more.
    The new defaults hijacks all 3-finger gestures to scroll one virtual desktop up/down left/right which I find useless.

    You don’t remember the gestures on Plasma 5 correctly. They already used both 3 and 4 finger gestures like they do now, and 3 finger gestures were for virtual desktop switching too.

    • pretzel6666 🐙@c.imOP
      4·
      10 months ago

      @Zamundaaa I did actually mix up three vs four fingers, but what has changed is that the three fingers gestures to change virtual desktop only worked on the bare desktop, while now they are global i.e. they work even if you have an in focus window.

      • Zamundaaa
        2·
        10 months ago

        No, they were always global. Scrolling on the desktop to change virtual desktops was disabled by default, but nothing changed about the three finger gestures

        • pretzel6666 🐙@c.imOP
          2·
          10 months ago

          @Zamundaaa I don’t know if it was a wayland quirks or something esle, but they definitely were not global for me, we’re talking two days ago. I would have noticed if desktops kept whizzing around every time I try to maximize a window or pull down the runner, as they do now ;)

          • Zamundaaa
            5·
            10 months ago

            I’m one of the KWin maintainers, I can tell you with absolute certainty that this hasn’t changed. Maybe you were on Xorg then?

            • pretzel6666 🐙@c.imOP
              1·
              10 months ago

              @Zamundaaa I’m absolutely sure that I were always on wayland, and that it is behaving different now than it did before. I have another computer which I still have not updated to kde6 (this one was cloned off that in January) I’ll do some test and come back to you if you are interested.

            • pretzel6666 🐙@c.imOP
              1·
              10 months ago

              @Zamundaaa I went back on the old PC, did a couple of tests and found out exactly what as changed and why. We are both right to an extent.

              I always use 4 virtual desktops, on the old PC I have them organized in a single row (better display in the pager) but I have configured desktop grid to show them in two rows (better usage of the screen). In this was, the three finger swipes up and down do nothing, and the fusuma actions can take over. Swipe left and right still changed desktop, but it did not interfere.

              On Plasma6, I did not find a way to configure the “desktop grid” layout independently from the global configuration, so I reorganized the virtual desktops in two rows. Now all the three-finger can potentially trigger a desktop change.