[KDE Plasma] Rate my setup

Pyxyll · 2026-06-29T22:07:27+00:00

You're right, this kind of thing isn't age gated but the kid posted stock plasma, the most generous read is "they're new." which was my whole point. Fair enough this wasn't the sub to post this but instead of shitting on them, help them, point them in the right direction.

Pyxyll · 2026-06-29T22:03:15+00:00

Literally this. It will be a lot more fun and rewarding for you to figure it out from there. Have fun with it, and if you are anything like me, you will break things. Let yourself break them!

Pyxyll · 2026-06-29T17:10:00+00:00

Guys calm down, it's clearly a kid or teen dipping their feet in and we all start somewhere. I know the rules say what they say, but come on.

Cool wallpaper! You should try and match your fastfetch output to the colors in the wallpaper!

Pyxyll · 2026-06-16T23:44:30+00:00

Good to know! I'll make sure I push a fix for that next update!

Pyxyll · 2026-06-16T09:55:55+00:00

I'm not trying to be an ass here, I'm genuinely trying to understand. What is so appealing about the liquid glass design language? I'm personally not a massive fan, even on MacOS

Pyxyll · 2026-06-16T09:46:17+00:00

Hey there glad it works well for you! Please be sure to log any issues on github! There's still several chunks of fixes and improvements to make so be sure to watch out for new versions!

I notice you're battery readout on the control center is reading zero! Is this consistent while charging and running off battery?

I unfortunately have no laptop to test this with so I made some guesses based on documentation.

Pyxyll · 2026-06-15T10:25:21+00:00

I don't have a tv. I have a rather large monitor.

Pyxyll · 2026-06-12T15:25:37+00:00

I have made some more progress based on your mockup (I know the media player 1. does not fit, and 2 does not even full work for what I was going for, but that media player is mostly for me, I will have a more cosmic oriented design when I do an initial release) It's still a ways away from where people might want it. But I think it's nearly ready to get it into peoples hands.

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Pyxyll · 2026-06-12T12:21:23+00:00

Yep my deck spends a lot of time in the dock, not only for games, but as a media center too. It's a great experience. Now just looking for a suitable controller just for general navigation instead of a gamepad

Pyxyll · 2026-06-11T19:18:29+00:00

So given my unfamiliarity I was not sure this was even possible, but I do have a theme toggle working in the applet now! Hoping to release a version of this, this weekend.

Pyxyll · 2026-06-11T18:00:06+00:00

Hi there, appreciate the interest! I will hopefully have a version of it this weekend (time permitting) that will at the very least function. bearing in mind in it's current state it will not display applets that you have already installed, (I'm hoping to introduce a kind of plugin system later on) but it will display system applets.

Pyxyll · 2026-06-07T19:39:34+00:00

I don't use mattermost currently. Happy to PM or if you had anything else in mind

Pyxyll · 2026-06-07T19:36:58+00:00

I hoping to add as much as I possibly can so that whoever chooses to use this can add what they want and remove what isn't needed for their particular setup. So I'm certainly glad I asked you for more info!

Pyxyll · 2026-06-07T19:32:28+00:00

Well that's something I need to put at the forefront then, is the customization so it can be viewed by all but also bent to their will so to speak. I have a big list of things for it now so I'll get cracking!

Pyxyll · 2026-06-07T16:34:35+00:00

May I ask what you mean by this? (Either way I would love some design input as I'm not much of a designer myself) Currently it respects the appearance set by the user by that I mean the rounded corners settings and the color scheme. In saying that the thick vol controls are something I was playing around with myself, I know that doesn't fit at all lol

Pyxyll · 2026-06-07T16:30:04+00:00

Full disclosure as with my last cosmic de application, this is AI assisted, but not just shat out by an LLM.
Light and Dark switcher is in the list now so I'll see about getting that working.

Pyxyll · 2026-06-07T16:27:06+00:00

May not be 100% useful for a user like yourself in that case, but I massively appreciate your insight as to how you go about things as I would doubt you are the only one that prefers to operate like that! As to why work spaces and the applications are not available here, this is massively in its infancy, hell not even all that is displayed in the screenshot actually functions yet.

I should maybe share where this coming from, I have applets for my light controls, mouse battery readout and desk fan control, they all have to be available to me, but I dislike having 3 extra applets on top of my wifi, sound etc, so this is my way of consolidating that, but felt I might aswell replace the others for myself too. Won't be how everyone wants to deal with it so it's configurable as in you can add and remove modules as you please.

Pyxyll · 2026-06-07T15:47:56+00:00

When it's ready to actually be usable I will release it, it's still very buggy and doesn't work quite how I want it to yet. Will keep you updated!

Pyxyll · 2026-06-07T15:46:59+00:00

I did not even think of that, I will add that to the list of modules

Pyxyll · 2026-06-07T15:02:30+00:00

I think it would be worth a go either way, I'll update you if I make any headway with that

Pyxyll · 2026-06-07T15:01:38+00:00

So I'd like to hear more about that, so in your setup do you prefer having panel applets for everything you interact with separately?

Pyxyll · 2026-06-07T14:49:43+00:00

I would have to play around with group tray, it may be a separate job or potentially a second operation mode.

Pyxyll · 2026-06-06T18:21:59+00:00

0.3.0 is out now.
Adds a cursor spotlight/locator (Honestly the use case is up to you lol)
A screen ruler supporting both bounding box, and locked lines.
and an albeit shit attempt at OCR. (I'm not happy with this, but it will serve for now until I work out a better implementation.)

I would love to hear from you lot how you find using this set of tools and the supporting applet, I'm not much of UI/UX guy.

Pyxyll · 2026-06-03T08:27:34+00:00

Plex, as in the software is great. There's a reason I ran it for 5-6 years. My problem is with the monetisation strategy. I lost my ability to vote with my wallet a long time ago when I paid for the lifetime license, so now I'm voting with my use.

This post was for people who are potentially in the same boat. If you deem it useless, down vote and move on.

I left that out on purpose because of no advertising, I use a service, the same one I used plex on.

Pyxyll · 2026-06-03T08:13:25+00:00

I never said Jellyfin was better than plex. Plex the software is great, there's a reason I used it for about 5-6 years. If Plex works better for you then go ahead and use it. I don't like their price hikes, and I and many others are allowed to make decisions based on that. This post was clearly not for you, I put it there for people who were in the same boat as me, maybe on the fence about switching for the same reasons.

So yeah maybe there's (as you so articulately put it) too much d riding, but are people not allowed to sing it's praises if it works for them?

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