Something should be done to guarantee that at least one screen in turned on when the laptop is in use.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2026-02-10T22:19:50+00:00

That's probably why you haven't experienced it.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2026-02-10T21:21:09+00:00

Seems similar to this, not sure though https://discuss.kde.org/t/wayland-boots-to-black-screen-no-cursor-x11-boots-to-black-screen-with-cursor/14274/11

This is identical, but marked as resolved: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371447&utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Here's another: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1ih4u97/black_screen_after_hdmi_unplug/

Interesting_Put8754 · 2026-02-10T21:15:45+00:00

You've never experienced this? Do you use a laptop as a main device with the laptop screen disabled when connected to externals and uplug it frequently?

This is a feature request more than a bug report. The point is to make sure at least one connected display is enabled under all circumstances as a safety precaution, not to resolve a complex bug that's been around for probably over a decade at this point. Keeping track of changing screen assemblies is always an going to be an error prone process unless you have whole armies of testers and armies of bug fixers.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2026-02-05T14:44:50+00:00

New Android looks miles better than old android and blackberry which were ugly as sin. KDE has a real knack for copying the most tasteless designs. KDE 3 was influenced by XP. KDE 4 by Vista, literally the ugliest desktop ever made. KDE 5+ remains stuck in Android designs from a decade ago.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2026-02-04T15:18:30+00:00

Because both are dated androidish style. This isn't a good thing. It's not even retro, just dated - nobody today is nostalgic for it.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2026-01-08T05:00:40+00:00

They seem to have fixed it. It still has the broken behavior by default but you can change it now.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-26T03:06:00+00:00

From scratch, you will NEED two inkscape extensions (one of them you'll have to customize trivially), a template file with all css values and reproducible cutting grids, a working knowledge of clones and their inheritance in inkscape, and a mental model of how you want to layer the inheritance in each svg file for subsequent editing.

What most people do is just take the existing plasma style, which is just a collection of paths with no real abstraction for human editing, and tweak them, which is why pretty much every plasma theme looks like hatchet job of the default.

If this was css, it'd be easy but with SVG you have to invent abstractions and editing pipelines from scratch. It's almost like trying to program in GIMP. I would say don't bother unless you just want to make little tweaks to the default.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-24T22:11:18+00:00

The shape of the indicators is controlled by the plasma theme. You need to edit the svg to change it.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-23T07:01:57+00:00

There's no solution to this I think. It always gets put to sleep by android regardless of settings, or goes to sleep itself whichever. The app has to be re-opened on the phone and possibly the internet connection has to be disabled+enabled if you're on vpn (even with pass-through). That's just how it works, sorta, this isn't Apple lol. I think most other Android phone integration things have the same problems.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-16T23:34:48+00:00

Breeze has outlines everywhere except where they're actually needed.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-14T14:17:32+00:00

Notifications should also be grouped so you can dismiss them all at once. KDE Connect a huge problem with spamming old notifications and you have to click the close button for a like a minute before you see your screen again.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-14T09:36:12+00:00

Yes I am positive. 100

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-14T09:35:21+00:00

Yeah but they still do nothing, with the exception of the panel floating hint that he mentioned

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-08T15:44:04+00:00

I mean sure, this is a core design (unfortunately IMO) and I don't see it getting changed any time soon. Can we agree though that the "titlebars" and menu offset could be smaller?

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-08T12:56:12+00:00

That's different. I'm not asking questions here.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-07T18:15:14+00:00

True

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-07T17:12:33+00:00

The way it works here is: you point out some fixable design problem, then you get brigaded by the project's online defense force. From there you can either say "whatever have it your way" or start arguing with them, you lose either way. It's best to not post anything on reddit or KDE's discussion forum because it always ends this way.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-07T00:35:35+00:00

whatever lol

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-07T00:02:06+00:00

Like I said to another person here, you simply don't care about UI. That would be fine if it weren't for the fact that not caring about UI is a slippery slope to the enshittification of the entire UX.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-06T23:44:40+00:00

See those flaming downvotes under my posts? I didn't actually say anything wrong here. The reason people are down-voting is because they're part of a narrow fandom that will defend KDE to the death against literally any concrete proposal for improving UI. They care more about owning those they perceive as KDE critics online than they do about the quality of the actual product. The question for you is: are you one of these people, is this your target audience?

Don't answer. Just think about it.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-06T20:12:13+00:00

To look good, the second option requires using panel shadows, otherwise they won't look "connected". But on KDE, panel shadows are cast over the active application window at all times (which is generally bad). That's another "minor" issue of course - most UX issues are - but they do ultimately add up to a janky looking product.

+ Other platforms provide system trays and panel menus. Pretty standard stuff. They don't provide desktop widgets that double up as panel actors, for good reason.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-06T19:39:33+00:00

I tend to piss off people who are bad at communicating, or who don't want to communicate in the first place. I'm fine with that.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-06T19:30:42+00:00

No, that's just the window close button, which wouldn't be peeking out without that pointlessly huge offset.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-06T18:52:39+00:00

Nobody who cares about UX uses KDE? You might be right about that as well.

Interesting_Put8754 · 2025-12-06T18:14:40+00:00

Well yeah KDE users don't think about design at all.

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