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KDE dev Kai Uwe Broulik "accidentally" installed #Plasma6 on his daily driver machine! What happened next will astound you

@[email protected]

https://blog.broulik.de/2023/08/on-the-road-to-plasma-6-contd/

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Not very interested in this. I would rather read about the best 5 things that happened to him after he accidentally installed Plasma 6.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] lol, that's a pretty interesting mistake to make, I want to do it some time! Also, I'm reading stuff about the visual issues of plasma 6, especially under wayland. However, what about accessibility? would plasma 6 become more accessible? would the orca not reading windows under wayland thing be fixed? what about the issue where you have to click the desktop with the mouse first, before you can read it with screenreaders?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@bgtlover @[email protected]

These questions will be better addressed by people working on the Accessibility Goal:

https://community.kde.org/Goals/KDE_For_All

On that page you will find links to he Matrix channel and tasks being carried out be the team. They will be able to answer all your questions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] hmm, now that I try to join the matrix room, I see that I'm already in it. Wonderful! this means that the people there heard my rumblings regarding kde, mostly the software, not the desktop, being very inaccessible and unusable. For the desktop, the worst is the settings app

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@bgtlover @kde @[email protected] Yes, I hear your rumblings and this rumbling is more than welcome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] ok, thanks! kde 5 is almost more accessible than gnome already, if it becomes better with kde 6, probably it's gonna be the default desktop for blind and visually impaired linux users, beginners and advanced alike. By advanced, I mean those who still use desktop environments, in stead of switching to a tiling window manager, like some I know do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@bgtlover @[email protected]

These questions will be better addressed by people working on the Accessibility Goal:

https://community.kde.org/Goals/KDE_For_All

On that page you will find links to he Matrix channel and tasks being carried out be the team. They will be able to answer all your questions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

this blog post warms my heart and i would add this to 8 plasma desktop stories worth reading right now 😂😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] Is it possible to install Plasma 6 in parallel to Plasma 5?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, astounding. Well, it was an amusing little read.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago