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    10 months ago

    I keep seeing people excited, then I check what’s coming and its all trivial changes to the defaults and whatnot. What is coming with 6 that is exciting?

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      Fuller Wayland integration mostly. Better optimization for performance, etc. Should be enough to move me onto Wayland on main PC.

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        Ah, I see. I was already on Wayland with no issues so I must’ve glossed over that.

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      10 months ago

      Mostly the migration to QT6 I think.

      Personally, I rather like that they’re not doing big changes or redesigns on the user facing side. KDE is pretty damn good as it is and I don’t need a whole bag of new-and-shiny breaking my workflow.

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        What’s better about QT6?

        I’m with you on that. That’s why I don’t care about the defaults, out of the box experience, etc. I have my own defaults already.

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          Again, not all that much user facing, but a lot of under the hood stuff. Reading through the notes, the things that stood out to me: vulkan, direct3d and metal rendering instead of just OpenGL, better HiDPI support including fractional scaling, better concurrency/multi-core support, and bringing the supported development tools up to date.

          https://www.qt.io/product/qt6/technical-specifications