LWN: Comments on "KDE Plasma 5.17 released"

KDE Plasma 5.17 released

HelloWorld — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 07:56:08 +0000

Kwin has had this feature on Wayland long before it was ported to the X11 version.

Jandar — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 08:30:54 +0000

> Night Color, the color-grading system that relaxes your eyes when the sun sets, has landed for X11.

Is something similar available in KDE for Wayland? Redshift is the only application which binds me to X11.

I don't use a sunset based configuration but a time based. I don't go to bed at dusk but at a relatively constant time regardless of season.

flussence — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 21:40:36 +0000

Is fractional scaling a Wayland-only feature in Qt5?

Zen42 — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:22:48 +0000

"If you are using Wayland, Plasma now comes with fractional scaling" - Well thats a bit awesome
- Me (now)

gb — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:04:37 +0000

... start-up scripts have been converted from Bash (a slow, interpreted language) to C++ ...

Interesting change. Is it a trend now?

XTerminator — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:24:59 +0000

So is now the time to switch to Wayland? Is it fully supported now for KDE/Plasma?

jfebrer — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 08:51:33 +0000

Excellent release! Congrats to the team.