Kudos to the whole team! That’s pretty impressive!!
Nice life quality improvement
@ngraham Could you please raise this bug:
For example: I cannot set CTRL-W to my mouse button to close a tab, in Russian it does not work, since it is CTRL-Ц in Russian and KDE binds not to physical buttons, but to a layout.
This affects keyboard and mouse shortcuts, the keyboard has a workaround, as you can set more than one shortcut (so one for each layout, that does not work), but no workaround for a mouse.
Actually in bugzilla are more of same type of problems shortcuts in Plasma or in apps do not work right in different layouts.
This workaround worked for Plasma 6.1, but starting 6.2 it does not work anymore (actually it still works on my Fedora, but I installed it in 6.1 times and then upgraded to 6.3, but does not on a new installs):
tnx
Keep up the good work!
I found a questionable one though:
System Settings’ Display Configuration page gained some UI Improvements; now the screen arrangement view is hidden when there’s only one screen, and with more that one, there’s a big obvious screen chooser at the top of the page to make it clear which screen is selected, and when there are any disabled but connected screens. (Oliver Beard, link)
I don’t think this adds anything useful, just more complexity with conditions and it even takes away the name of the monitor in the first picture, which isn’t a good idea.
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Congratulations on the bug fixes! I have also been affected by KWin crashes related to suspending and docks, so thank you to all developers (and bug reporters) for the fixes. The lock screen UI improvement seems quick slick!
About the changes in the System Settings’ Display Configuration pages, I agree that the change doesn’t add anything useful. If anything, it makes it less clear that you are configuring your display as there is no “display layout” widget to indicate that, if you only have one display connected. I believe that it was fine as it was before the change: desktop OSs haven’t ever changed the fundamental behaviour of the setting page, and I don’t think anyone has ever been confused. If anything, the new UI looks like as if KDE hasn’t correctly detected your display.
Thank you!
I fully agree, adding that no showing a screen takes away to fast way to get an impression of the aspect ratio selected. And furthermore, it makes you puzzled where to look for, when you have additional screenes. That change should be reverted, imho!
In general way, you may need to configure or review some settings of these even when the device is not connected.
I would argue the top level should stay no matter what and the display of missing items should be meaningful enough, showing most of your manually edited settings and/or settings which you may want to tune even before connecting such device.
Let’s say for example you connect malfunctioning game controller and it doesn’t work in the game, you go to settings and there’s no game controller settings at all. You are regular user not aware of lsusb, lshw , … What now? Settings page saying there is no game controller connected is IMHO much better UX in such situation, at least hinting to you that the OS doesn’t recognize the device, but you are at the right place to check settings of one.
100% agree with you. To show the KCM with no device identified is much more informative than no KCM because there are other reasons why a KCM might not be visible.