XFCE vs KDE

[The Repairman]

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[Moltke]

KDE Plasma 5.22 is looking good
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.21.90/
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs...5-5.21.90/

[Moltke]

https://pointieststick.com/2021/05/15/wi...r-the-job/

[Moltke]

Xfce participation in GSoC 2021 https://alexxcons.github.io/2021/06/23/x...-gsoc.html

[Moltke]

XFCE team is working to make it even better than it already is. In this blog post, one of XFCE's devps talks about and I quote:

work on supporting the `recent:///` location and on adding some other requested features, most notably the option to save the zoom-level per directory.

http://users.uoa.gr/~sdi1800073/sources/...log02.html
An excerpt:

Support for GTK-Recent: A way to easily access recently used files is a staple of contemporary file managers. For that purpose, GTK has a special location on its virtual filesystem called 'recent:///'. Until now users could access this location manually (by typing `recent:///` in the path bar) but because this location wasn't supported files appeared locked and there were a variety of other issues, which rendered it useless. The following MR solves these problems. Users will be able to use the `Recent` location like any other location that Thunar supports. In addition opening a file from Thunar adds it in the list of recently used files (previously files got added to the recently used files only if they were opened by an app that supports GTK-Recent), there is an option to remove files from `Recent` and a new sorting column called `Recency` has been added (only visible in the `Recent` folder).

[Moltke]

It's been another busy week in KDE land with the seemingly never ending improvements to the Plasma Wayland session as well as introducing some new features https://pointieststick.com/2021/08/20/th...new-stuff/

[Moltke]

KDE Plasma 5.23 beta release is out! https://pointieststick.com/2021/09/17/th...-and-more/

The Plasma 5.23 beta has been released, so go test it! Many of the improvements already made this week pertain to Plasma’s Wayland session which is rapidly becoming usable for more and more people’s daily usage.