I moved away from plasma a few years back. I can’t remember the reason(s) why. I think it was I just wanted to use a tiling wm. Either way, I decided to pop on the unstable NixOS channel and give plasma6 a go. I ain’t going back to no damn tiling shenanigans.
What the plasma team did here is what, I think, a lot of people have been waiting for. It feels very polished and refreshed. I’m so damn impressed by it.
with three inputs (-i flag) -- a video file, and two audio files.
The streams are explicitly mapped into the result, counting the inputs from 0 -- i.e. -map 0:v maps input 0 (the first file) as video (v) to the output file and -map 1:a maps the next input as audio (a), etc.
It sets the metadata for the audio tracks -metadata:s:a:0 language=jpn sets the first audio track (again counting from 0...) to Japanese; the second metadata option sets the next audio track to English.
-c:v copy specifies that the video codec should be copied directly (i.e. don't re-encode -- remove this if you DO need to re-encode)
-c:a copy specifies that the audio codec should be copied directly (i.e. don't re-encode -- remove this if you DO need to re-encode)
output.mp4 -- finally, list the name of the file you want the result written into.
It's already way below Firefox, so I don't think that changes search order. I'll probably end up removing it if there's no other way. Far form ideal, though.
Yes, I like KDE and am happy to help. And I really like the fact that it shows an example of what data is being sent. If more software did this, I would be willing to do it more often.
I get into phases where I use Activities, and I like the workflow, but then I forget about it for a while. I like having the separated workspace with no other thing showing up in the taskbar, but moving applications between the activities is a pain.
I’d like to see it stay but I don’t have the knowledge to maintain it, so I guess I’m at the mercy of the KDE team’s willingness to keep it on life support.
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I use 4 work spaces & organize by my own system/categories as I start opening stuff after a weekly restart, a couple of vivaldi instances, firefox all with their own email & download locations
No special setup beyond me remembering my own scheme, easy to move stuff between work spaces
It’s funny. I was around from KDE 1.1 to about 4.7 and some of those decisions were things I was involved in directly… Like the branding shift towards KDE as a community (people sharing vision and development infrastructure) as opposed to KDE as a monolithic desktop environment. I haven’t been involved for ages now. I did some coding too, but not a tonne.
The KDE 4.0 release messaging was one of my core tasks. We had a release party in Mountain View – and we invited all the packagers for all the distros to the event. Linux community “luminaries” like Patrick Volkerding were there and it was a great party. But we thought that, by bringing all the packaging types there, we had the messaging problem bottled – and KDE 3.5 and 4.0 would be offered alongside each other as though they were different desktops entirely. (Like Gnome, or whatever… Just choose what to launch in your session manager.) What happened instead is that 3.5 was dropped like a hot potato and users fled 4.0. Distros didn’t want two versions of libraries installed, so running a 3.5 app in a 4.0 environment was difficult, but not all the 4.0 apps had been ported yet. Yikes! This is a huge reason for the subsequent split between version numbering of Desktop releases (later Plasma) and things like “Frameworks”.
Side note: we had even considered the idea of KDE (as a community) offering multiple desktop interface offerings, each with their own branding. So you could run Plasma, Kicker (a hypothetical KDE 3.x desktop environment ported to the current frameworks), etc. alongside applications from multiple versions of desktops. This was the reason the session management code was in KRunner rather than Plasma, for example. This would allow highly experimental user interfaces to be developed around the KDE libraries. But that never happened, as far as I can tell.
Anyway, for 4.0 – so much for Linux applications and the mantra “release early, release often.” Lesson learned. Linus, I’m so sorry for disappointing you. ;)
I meant to reply but kept getting distracted while typing it out. It’s my favorite trait of mine. 🙄 Sorry about that. But when we sat down to record the following episode, we ended up talking about what you wrote..
I really appreciate this insight. This is something we never would have gotten doing our normal digging. I have a lot of respect for folks like you for doing real hard work and still having it not quite work out the way you wanted.
We did do the high version numbers for alpha, beta, RC etc. leading into 4.0 as well.
You can find some of that here: 4.0 release schedule - go through the version history of that page. Fun times. (Makes me nostalgic.) You’ll note that the release date got pushed back a few times as more betas and things were inserted. You’ll also see version numbers like 3.97 for release candidates.
The smaller the interval of each switch between the two, our timeline folds onto itself at a faster rate. If you like this dimension, please just adapt and use Wayland. Or you’ll be the harbinger of doom for us all.
Only thing stopping a permanent switch for me is that counterstrike2 is a strobe light on Wayland nvidia for me. As soon as that’s all good, I’ll be yeeting x11
Ill give it a look in 2 hours when I finish work, what adaptive sync setting should I have for this? I use KDE so the options are auto, always and never. I’ve experimented with these settings before trying that patch
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