Stefan Mileschin

Plasma desktop environment on the way

KDE should be announcing the next major release of Plasma desktop environment and is spending the last week before the release focusing on "better default settings" and "improve the UX out of the box."

Writing in his bog, developer/QA manager Nate Graham said that Plasma 6 will default to opening files and folders with a double-click, not a single click.

“Even though almost everyone in the room for the discussion uses and prefers opening with a single-click, it's probably not the ideal default setting for people who are migrating from other platforms, which is most of them. They can still learn the benefits of single-click later,” he said.

Developers used the "Thumbnail Grid" Task Switcher by default and made some UI changes.

“We're going to make a firm push for Wayland to be the default session type for Plasma 6. The X11 session will still be there, and distros will be free to override this and continue defaulting to X11 if they feel like it suits them better. But we want Wayland to be our official recommendation,” Graham said.

https://fudzilla.com/news/56888-kde-...fault-settings