I Made 4 New Plasma 6 Features: Overview, New Floating Panels, New Panel Settings, 2D Gestures! 

Content quality is so good these days. The team are definitely deserving appreciation. The style is fun, and your behaviour / mannerisms are lovable. Thank you for being the friendly face of KDE development. 💕

thank you and all contributors so much!

This guy alone is improving KDE and modernizing it in more ways than in a year than it did in the last many years. What you are doing is just unbelievable and I never thought that KDE or any DE could improve this much, this fast. UI/UX improvements are a must in this modern software world. You are literally transforming KDE in something that can actually be used by common people. Thank you :)

Wow. I'm getting more and more excited for KDE Plasma 6 release now! Should be an awesome release.

Thanks for adding the "intelegently hide panel" option. The gestures, the panel, everything looks sooo good. Can't wait to try plasma 6. ( But take your time, don't rush the release. I'd much prefer to wait to have a bug free launch).

I'm a XFCE/GNOME guy myself, but I'm able to recognize passion and excelence. You have both of them. Thanks 4 your "mostly free" work on "mostly free" software. Liked and subscripted.

The intelligent hide is actually very useful to me. I don't like "bring mouse down to show the dock" and I would much rather prefer for it to stay hidden, until I press a certain key. Plasma, sadly, did not have an option to just hide the panel, but had one to show up. With this new option I would achieve basically what I wanted, except the dock would still show up when no windows are invading it, which I think is also rather nice

Just a suggestion here the "dock" should allow a 3d zoom on hover like macOS dock or Latte-dock.. tbh since latte-dock is pretty much dead be good to have feature parity in KDE so we aren't dependent on third party docks.. of course I don't expect this on release but be a decent future goal for the "dock"

Oooh, I'm so excited for the panels! Thank you so much!

Every time I watch your videos I want to code for KDE!

The two-directional gestures sound especially interesting for Plasma Mobile - being able to "immediately switch app to the last active one" with an "up and swipe right" motion (not dissimilar to Android) sounds neat.

I'm so happy I fell down the Linux rabbit hole. I'm thankfully in a non-stressful financial situation, so I'm trying to funnel the extra money I make from my part-time teaching job into FOSS projects as much as I can, namely Joplin, Godot, among others. Can't wait to subscribe to your Patreon once that becomes available to me!

That merge request about 2D gestures on GNOME Shell didn't actually land yet (afaik), so when it lands we'll be the ones copying you guys! Awesome work, love that panel configurations window.

It is always so great to hear news like this from the dev himself. Btw this music is stuck o my head now.

All looking fantastic. Thanks for the work, the updates, and the excellent videos

The bidirectional grid is superb!

You've just improved my KDE life - I love kde even more now and can't wait for the upcoming updates 😊

The most logical behaviour for resolving conflicting gestures in 2D is to apply whichever direction has a greater displacement. This means that whenever a gesture is almost diagonal between conflicting effects small movements of the finger should cause the active effect to rapidly animate to 0 and then the alternative to rapidly animate to match its own displacement. This gives the impression of a light switch, which can be precariously balanced between the two options but a small nudge swings it from one direction to another.

I really like the new overview. As a KDE user for many years, this is something that I always dreamed of. I was hoping for something that is comparable to the Mission Control in macOS, but this new overview is much better than that, beyond my best imagination. Thank you so much!

I cant wait the release 😢 I WANT THAT PANELS

Plasma docks are cool! I didn't realize that it was that hard to figure out but people should be able to find out on the Internet or just testing things out. I have my dock set to be a single row icons only and autohide at the top of screen. It reduces my cursor travel distance having it at the top.

Nice work with the hiding bar! I was actually admiring it a few days ago, it's super smooth.

Thank you. Enjoy your concepts and humor.

Visually impaired user here, Plasma is a life saver, thanks for all your work!

We're all looking forward to flirting panels, good work!

I've asked about this before, but is it possible in Plasma 6 to change the gesture to 3 finger up or down to call the overview and still have 1:1 gestures? There's a ton of us with older machines from the ancient 2015 that don't support 4 fingers gestures on trackpads :/

All of this make plasma look so much better, great work Nicco

Thanks so much for the new panel settings in particular! Much much better!

In KDE 6, the system will automatically change all 5s typed through the keyboard to a 6. Amazing and much needed feature.

Thank you for all your great work!!!

These panel changes will be so nice

Nice! Can't wait to try it out. Thanks for your work!

Thank you Nicco for all your work Can't wait for the release of Plasma 6v Next year God's willing.

Ahhh, Far the Days Come, my favorite free RU-vid music track :)

I can’t wait for kde 6. Thank you so much for your contributions!! ❤❤❤❤❤

All I want is a basic desktop that supports Wayland fractional scaling well without weird bugs like transparent context menu items or screen blinking or session crashing that kills all user apps.

Thank you Nico😭😭😭❤

interesting video. I came here from watching the video of louis rossmann yesterday. great to see how the KDE desktop is coming along. by the way, I subscribed yesterday. and today, I subscribed again. guess, this is the first time I experienced youtube unsubscribing me from a channel.

Hi! Good job! Thanks a lot for talk about GNU/Linux and Open Source, and shows news about this. The key, named "Meta", is the key that have inscription "Alt". The key with a draw of the penguin, or of the four little squares, is named "Super". Keep pushing!

Nicco do you think it would be possible for KDE to properly implement modifier only shortcuts for this release? It is very easy to break your application launcher and not have it work with the super key anymore. With the only solution being deleting kwinrc so that KDE regenerates it. It seems right now it all works around a hack in Qt

Video quality is so good. Nice work nico and team.

Exciting stuff Edit: I can't wait for the dock stuff, I wanna try and get my KDE to look like OSX and see how it looks XD

Editor: "How many memes do you want?" Nicco: "All of them"

sounds really great, cant wait to try!

The changes look amazing, thank you for your work!

Thanks for making kde better mr nico

Ridiculously waiting for plasma 6

good to see u.

Appreciate what you're doing for KDE Plasma. I'm a Gnome junkie when I started messing with Linux years ago, but I found KDE Plasma to be more in line with what I want since I jumped ship from windows to Linux in April this year, and I must say it looks amazing over all, and now you're expanding on more options and features, which is really great to see. Thanks so much for what you guys are doing 🙌

I like how Plasma devs are not scared to change big chunks of the code, pretty much making it a whole new DE with major releases, like the new Plasma 6.

looking very good and hope your health is ok.

I'm using Debian 12 KDE now with floating panel. Looking forward to Debian 13 with Plasma 6 that will have this and next iteration perks. My first KDE was 3.3, everything changed, but the spirit is there so I don't even feel any nostalgia for earlier versions.

I had to reinstall Fedora Kionite after having a bug I couldn't resolve with leaking storage space somewhere in system files. Decided to try W11, cuz why not. I feel like Windows will never fill this huge gap in usability and customisation, heck, you can't now change panel placement even! 2 months and I already long for KDE workflow. And these changes make me want to switch even faster😍

10:43 I really like the layout/look, (of course I typed this just before it gets covered, thankfully I waited before posting) -however, for visibility, where's "windows can cover" and "windows go behind"?- -I needed to use "windows can cover" for a while, as "auto-hide" was playing up (working now) and I'm sure some prefer that way.-

Nice, super looking forward to that. Right now I’ve already mapped overview to Meta+Tab and then Meta+Shift+Tab to grid view.

Looking forward to panel setting redesign!

👍Thanks man!

Awesome work. I also hope for three fingers gestures option. I find using four fingers not as handy.

wait wait wait, is this kinda like latte-dock but more official and not totally broken and horrible? Actual dream of mine holy moly

Great work :) I am excited to see Plasma 6. Holding off for now to try it out with kdesrc-build as I would need another weekend to do so. But really looking forward for the end result of Plasma 6.

I need desperately round corners, everywhere, as round as they can get hehe😊

As a Patreon I am very, very happy with what you’re doing. Not only as you developing free software, which I love, but you’re also addressing my biggest pain points. The only major pain point I have left which isn’t a technical bug or shortcoming with the display stack in Linux and KWIN is that I haven’t found a way to automatically have all desktops have the same panel and plasmoid layout automatically.

I love those margin sliders, but auto resizing is going to be great.

The only feature I miss from Latte is to use the mouse wheel to cycle through tasks.

that's really kool!

Hard work indeed...as you are a developer and working on gestures...i have a request that you add a gesture for changing volume too...this is the only thing that's making me stay in windows...

Very nice update. That's quite a few quality of life features and a nice new look. Keep up the good work. More suggestions & feedback↓ suggestions & feedback: The UI could use a more consistent flow and design. Get rid of the sharp edges. And native life wallpaper support, would be nice in the form of wallpaper engine or its own separate implementation, add alternative or similar features to latte dock because it is very missed by the community (including myself) and uncap the minimum height of the hovering taskbar/dock it is very frustrating when trying to customize the layout to be similar to latte dock's implementation when you can't set a custom size. (For some reason when I updated on my arch distribution the panel transparency switch in the panel customization settings does not work. Just reverts back to whatever it was originally set to in my case transparent, but it is not actually transparent at all and is not set to adaptive in any way)

Thanks a lot for the great additions and the good content! Also lots of love for the team

You had me on Hello! just give it to me! 😛

Amazing video! The quality improvement is huge and I love the background music (it reminds me of apple events) Keep up the great work

Thanks for the work man, KDE remains as cool as ever!

Cannot wait to install plaama 6 when it gets released

Can I just say, that I think you're doing great work on KDE. If someone's trying out linux for the first time, I've always recommended they go with KDE instead of Gnome personally. However I've not used KDE myself in over 15 years or so. Watching how KDE has come along, as well as how both yourself and the modern KDE team interact with everyone really makes me consider switching back after all this time. You're a great ambassidor for open source development.

i wonder how many linux users don't use an adblocker, making content about linux must give really low ad revenue lmao

Maybe the kde logo could be an easter egg gesture somehow, like 3 fingers for the 3 dots and drawing the > with another finger

I think I'd rather have no floating panel and clean code than hacky code and floating panels. The dock-mode and dodge windows settings are probably the lion's share of the value in the end. New overview seems amazing. With my current machines, I probably need the Asahi team to catch up, though...

Nice, vibrant colors. They convey well your excitement and pride, which is great. I'm happy to hear about the panel, because it was the weakest point of Plasma, and now it seems finally to gets basic things in a well-designed way. And the intelligent hide is finally there! Yay! It's still no latte-dock, but a good start. ;) As to overview, it sounds OK when you talk about it, but I'm a bit confused about how it would work. I personally don't need all the elements, and overview is for me a big alternative for alt-tab. Basically, I use alt-tab to switch between recent windows back and forth, but for managing window (and I have a lot of windows opened), I use overview. To do that, I already assigned the shortcut meta+tab for overview and it works the best. The thing with circling between various effects makes me wonder - can I disable or skip some of the elements and keep just the one I use? In theory, when I switch to overview, I choose a window, which ends the overview effect, so the new elements shouldn't bother me, but there is a danger, that I hit my shortcut twice which, instead of ending the overview, enters the next element, which I have no use for. So again, will there be a way to personalize this overview workflow? Maybe I'm not understanding how it would work in practice? Time will tell. And what about settings for mouse gestures in Wayland?

Amazing work!!! Love it😍

All these exciting changes just from you. I wonder what other devs are cooking!!!

Looks great! I recently tried plasma again (latest 5.xx) but there are some showstoppers for me which are per monitor virtual desktops, configure panels/widgets to be "cloned" across all monitors, and an easy way to sync settings across devices (haven't looked into this one yet). I'll gladly test plasma 6 when it gets released :) Thanks for all of your hard work!

So.. how realistic is it to have the option of the panel not maximizing when there are maximized windows? I would kinda love that. Also some native way of setting space between opened windows that aren't maximized would also be extremely welcome!

I was really hoping for mouse gestures (not to be confused with touchpad gestures). I heard that the feature would be cut completely in Plasma 6, I use it _constantly_ and would hate to see it go.

While I don't think I will move away from my dynamic tiling WM, Plasma 6 is looking to be my go-to recommendation for newer users that want a functional & comfortable DE. Plus I always did like the customization that Plasma has had.

Love the work. Already donating. Hopefully with the new panel settings, we will have the option eventually to set the panel floating width

Plasma 6 looks soo good... I'm switching to Arch just to use it as soon as it drops..❤

nice

This is going to be so awesome on the framework laptop

Dock dock dock... Please please make a way of saving layouts so I can copy layouts to different computers.

Looking forward to trying out Plasma 6 once it lands in Fedora Rawhide. I'm primarily a Gnome user, but I recently trudged through setting up Plasma on my system. To be honest, setting up Plasma is super discouraging because I run into so many bugs and weird design decision while doing so. But once set up, I actually enjoyed using it.

really excited for kde 6 now

6:15 I'm waiting for this! floating panel change

It sounded like you pronounced KDE as a word, "kadee." I'm going to start doing that from now on.

I hope they also add a new clock so, when you want to make the panel vertical, the clock can adjust itself to a vertical position. right now I am using a third party clock called "split digital clock". It's alright but, I wish it also included the date.

I really wish the panel to be visible in overview mode.

I have absolutely not understood how the overview is supposed to work. And yes, I have watched it multiple times.

How many developers have a Steam Deck? How many developers use it in desktop mode (KDE Plasma)? I think Steam Deck desktop mode, is the most used KDE Plasma device today. And it is a tablet too. Please add some love to tablet mode. Such as, - Zoom menu options (as a lens), in order to be able to read them and to press the correct key - Some voice interaction, such as better Almond or similar integration, or at least any multilingual system speech to text. - Some other tablet features copied from IOS and Android.

I might wait for debian 13, but im tempted by this

cool I don't need to use Latte Dock for a dock in KDE 6

Hi. My dear, could you configure mouse's scroll to run on the virtual screen (overview) like Gnome do? I think that this is a little thing to you and I think that the choice the screen on overview will be amazing. Congratulations!!!

I feel like there's a stylistic problem with floating panel. It's round playfull, doesn't really match the harsh corners of the applets that are attached to it