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Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened. (floss.social)

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Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened.

http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/qt6_wayland_robustness/

You will lose no data, the video you were watching will not skip a frame, and the contents of your clipboard will remain intact.

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/5C7uct72cxGnEQJn6LqdSn

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[–] aschnefuenfzehn@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@whjjackwhite @nora
The lack of transparency leads one to suspect that other companies also pay permanent developers. Among others Trolltech and SuSE.
d) The "companies" you mention are for the most part not companies but scientific institutions. You can quickly compile something there if it doesn't work. This is not the case with companies that have to earn money.
e) The KDE I find at Cern has the version number 3.

[–] nora 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look, it comes down to the fact that as far as I know, the vast majority of KDE developers are volunteers with their own lives. There was a given explanation for why it hasn't been fixed, it was complicated code that was hard to maintain. Its not as simple as someone writing code to reimplement the feature, the feature also needs to be maintained which is a lot of work for a project with so few resources compared to proprietary projects that can afford to pay hundreds of full time developers.

People requesting that feature to come back are just kind of rude about it, skipping out on basic manners. Personally if I were a KDE developer I wouldn't want to work on a feature after all that.

[–] aschnefuenfzehn@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@nora
Which brings us back to the beginning:
the developers do what they want. After all, they do it for free (except for those who are paid).
Personally, I think that with this attitude they have driven away the most committed users.

Me, for example. I used to donate to KDE and even did some translations. But back then, after I asked nicely when the various widgets and backgrounds were coming back, I was called nasty names.
Since then KDE doesn't get a penny from me anymore.