Hard to explain for me, but a lot of it comes down to a simplicity factor. I love KDE, I love having control, but I also loving having a surface that I can just work with, yknow? So, there is always settings to go under the hood, but rarely will I need to. I tried to simplify my system using certain widgets and thematic stuffs. Sounds odd, but this is the best way I can put it, haha. I appreciate you asking!
Thank you as well! I didn’t want anything complicated, just a bit pretty and mainly functional. Your words here are something I’ll take to heart. Have a good day!
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I miss this too. It should be possible because it is shown in the Audio System Settings. There is also a bug open for this improvement: 453629 – Show full window titles on Applications tab, as the KCM does https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453629
This looks awesome! Definitely stuff I’d use. I presume it’s also great for stuff like text expanders, autocorrect and typing predictions (if you’re into that stuff)
Like typing !date and it gives you the exact date or something (or unix time! So many possibilities!)
I think I found out how to do what you want. In the System Settings app, you will go to “Workspace Behaviour” (right under Appearance), then in the submenu choose “Desktop Effects”, and either scroll down (number 2 in “Appearance”) or search for “Blur”. To the right there’s a configure button that you press.
In the popup you can then configure the Blur Strength and I suggest you put it all the way to Light (to the left). Noise strength i have no idea what does lol.
Hope this helps, and if you need pictures I can do that as well
Edit: This will also change other places with blur.
And also remember to change the opacity settings of the panel (In edit mode, edit the panel, to the right “more options”, and then you can choose from there)
Thanks for helping. I've already tried putting the blur all the way down (and fiddling with the noise, no idea what it does either) - the screenshots in my post are both with blur at 0 :( Also means my logout screen isn't blurred properly and the icons are harder to see over the background.
My panel opacity is set to "Adaptive" so that it turns opaque with maximised windows. Even if I set it to be "Translucent", it's looks the same as it is in my screenshots.
I tried that. Unfortunately it doesn't play nice with adaptive transparency and makes the panel transparent all the time, so even when a window is maximised its still transparent. 😞
I need to setup notifications here. I am not familiar with how qml works, but can’t ituse qt native integration, like the one documented in the kde page
This is far too late of a response, but I’m glad you found it! I haven’t logged in for a while, but I’m coming back now. Apologies for not getting back! Ditto menu really is great. <3
Nothing is throttling my CPU unless it’s somehow defaulted on in OpenSuse, Manjaro, Debian, or Linux Mint. Also these same distros, I installed other DEs on and had it work just fine. It’s a AMD Ryzen 9 3900x 4 ghz 12 cores.
This is specifically a KDE problem. So question, if you do windows key -> term/kon -> enter. As quickly as you can, does it accept the enter input and immediately launch your terminal?
@MJBrune@Ashiette I tried doing it as quickly as I can and it didn't work the first time (result appeared what looks like about 0.1-0.2s later) but it did work in subsequent attempts (even when looking for other apps)
CPU: i5-1135G7
If you look for an app and then for a different app, does it find it quickly? I suspect it might be reading the .desktop files lazily (meaning it only reads them the first time you look for something)
Edit: nvm ksycoca is there to prevent that
Even if I look for the same app over and over again, it doesn’t speed up. Doesn’t seem like a caching issue to me. Perhaps the second time you were just .1-.2 seconds slower on the enter button?
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