6 KDE Plasma Features you *actually* didn't know
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:22 Part 1: Dolphin Hidden Places
2:49 Part 2: Krunner Runners
5:29 Part 3: Custom Gestures
7:58 Part 4: Desktop Effects
10:14 Part 5: Window Management
12:20 Part 6: Blurry & Transparent KDE Breeze - Věda a technologie
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Plasma had a feature that turns electrons into self-replicating nanomachines hidden somewhere in the infinite rabbithole that is KDE Settings.
Theres definitely a KDE setting to replace itself with a riced GNOME desktop made to look like KDE. Probably merged by accident in 2014 and no one's noticed yet
I thought I knew all the super-productive, super-customizable, "all you can do" features of KDE stuff....and then you drop this video that drops my jaw!
All of this stuff is JUST SO AMAZING! Thanks for this video!
Immediately applying transparency to my Steamdeck!
I actually use the window-rules thing to make certain windows/apps always appear on the same virtual screen, which is pretty cool to organize apps.
I wonder how many Steam Deck users don't even realize how powerful KDE plasma is and just consider it "the desktop mode you only use if you really have to"
Well you really need a keyboard and mouse to use it efficiently so it makes sense.
people just want to play e.e
I use desktop mode on Steamdeck, especially for mods.
@@bonaoenchelcha true
@john q plasma is touch friendly
All these things are a part of why KDE plasma is my favourite DE.
Soon Sony will sue the, because "it just does everything".
I did actually know about all of these :) Unfortunately several of them (mouse gestures, window triggers, window shading) aren't available on Wayland, and may not be available on Wayland anytime soon.
Oh shit, window shading is an absolute must for me. I'm still really missing the feature in KDE4 where you could plop several windows down into on and have a tabbar-like thing in the title bar. I also really liked the blue halo effect around the active window of that version.
I'm not quite sure but I guess KDE4 was the point were KDE had the most features, ever. Since most new development in Plasma seems to be in Wayland I'm a bit afraid that a lot of useful features are going to fall by the wayside again.
Nonetheless thanks for all your work! Your name sure does surface quite often when I read about Plasma nowadays. :) Nice to hear from a celebrity in a youtube comment. ;)
this is why i stop using Plama, back in kde 3 and 4, we got workflows and then after a update, we need to work the way someone else think, a little like Gnome.
so i use a WM, and build all the important things my self as then i can keep updating it my self.
KDE got so many options and settings they need to cut some sometimes.
@@zeocamo Nope, sorry. This "cutting of features" is best left to GNOME, KDE/Plasma should remain the powerhouse it is/was. What is an "option too far" for one is an essential feature for the next. That's why I love KDE, if I invest the time I can rig my desktop exactly (well, mostly) they way I want it.
Better documentation of plasmoids and an easier way to develop them would be great though. In that regard, I'd like to have even *more* options. 🙂
@@karaloop9544 you understand me when KDE 6 is release...
@@zeocamo I pray to whoever cares to listen that you are wrong. That has been my latent fear also, it took _ages_ for Plasma to get back where KDE4 was when they switched to Qt5. Since KDE as a whole suffered greatly from that, I hope this time around the devs won't make this mistake again. If they do, I guess Plasma will die as a desktop alternative - that would be the worst case. No way I'm going to wait again for years for features to crawl back - just to start the whole charade again with Qt7.
Same thing with this Wayland crap, what the heck does it even do so much better than X11 for all the hassle to be worth it? I'm only ever hearing "that's not possible with Wayland". Bleh.
Good to see such content. It's much needed and appreciated how KDE is now working to give visibility to it's features, which have present for long but never exposed or advertised.
We should have much more of such content and even helpers/walkthroughs in KDE itself.
Wow thanks for introducing me to thumbnails aside. I've been using KDE for a year and a half now and it's the first time I'm shown this feature. I would have been literally using it everyday had I known it earlier.
That's right! Because no one talks about KDE's PIP ! It's great ! Very useful !
Did not know that!
Did not know that!
Man, i wish menus in titlebars were a default breeze thing.
Loved the video, thanks.
I thought the thumbnail said “KDE Plasma 6: Hidden Features” and I was like “What?!? It’s here?!?” I was mildly disappointed, but still a great video!
This was amazing! So many helpful features, thank you so much for the research and teaching!
Great video and I am really glad that you/the community achieved the 700€ goal! Keep doing great work!
i didn't know everything of the video. Thank You Nicco!!!
Man!!!! great video. loved it.
Your best video yet and your setup looks great.
I am going to need to save this video for the time when I move back from gnome to kde (I actually like both DEs). These features are seriously making me consider kde again. Now I have to ask, what can't kde do?
FANTASTIIIIIC. Thank you!
Awesome. Keep it up, this is huge!
I frankly didn't know about any of these features. Great video Nicco!!
Thanks Nicco, super video! 👍😎
This is a beautiful video. You kicked butt with this one. Your personality was charming and the background was a nice touch.
Thumbnails!
XD love your work!
I was baited by the thumbnail... It read "KDE Plasma 6 hidden features" and I thought the six was the version of plasma, not the number of features...
I guess the title and the first seconds clear that up tho
Oh my, that was NOT intended. Sorry!
@@niccoloveslinux no worries man, I mean the title is clearer. And I guess if you were about Plasma 6 the 6 would be on the same line.
It just a weird function of my brain
hahaha, same :) But it was very informative. :)
your production quality really increased over the last few months bro
good job :)
Appreciate it!
Love the new background! awesome lighting.
Thanks
Awesome video. Thank you
Excellent video!!!
I knew about all of these tips and I use them all in my day to day.
Thank you for tell us this. Many of the tips you gave, I was not aware of.
Video quality did a big leap again!!!
nice work niccolo
Two things I've always missed about Dolphin:
1. Pinning the directory so that, regardless of the sorting of files in the directory, the directory we choose is always pinned at the beginning. It could also be marked with an asterisk or a paperclip icon.
2. Pin bookmarks. Dolphin can open windows in tabs. It would be nice to be able to pin such a tab so that it cannot be closed normally and its contents cannot be changed. It could also have a slightly changed color to make it stand out better.
awesome stuff!
I love KDE. Thank you for your work.
Love your Videos about KDE!
oohhhh, amazing , i started this video by challenging myself , that i already know 4-5 of it , but i don't ,
Thanks for these , totally new for me 🤩 ,
gonna try it out now
The new video layout looks great.
Damn. That's some handy stuff! I knew about the shade part but that's about it. Definitely going to bookmark this in my YT for later!
Nice features, thanks.
Saving this for future reference. So much that I didn't know
I only knew the shade one! Also opacity, and you can make it change on scroll-wheel. Great quality update!
this is why i love KDE
Love the intro / backgrounds.
Thanks!
man, the mouse gestures are so cool, gonna set those up for everything!!
You may not believe it but I knew every single one. I've been using KDE since KDE3 days and adapted my own plasmoids so maybe not that surprising after all.
Plasma is insanely powerful!!! Thank you for making these features known to us, and thank you generally for all your work on KDE! Eternally grateful!
Great video!
I knew the first one, in nemo (which is a fork of Nautilus) when I enabled typing into address bar, I have noticed that there are some special locations like computer:// or trash:// etc, but I didn't know that it's possible to also open man pages and help center from there.
I'm really looking forward for the next episode.
Very cool!
Ok, I may not have known about *all* of them, but I _did_ know about *none* of them, so I think that counts for something.
You got me. I only knew about the window rules. So much content it feels adventurous! Something I didn't feel about an OS since a friend introduced me to Linux. And before that, since my first computer with Win 3.
9:16 ofc xD
It should be attached to the KDE Welcome page :D Priceless
I did not know Kirigami existed. Thanks Niccolo!
9:18 what are you trying to draw there? lol.
This is off topic but i really wish to get pinephone, and i wish pinephone to be very popular in the future, more users means more software :)
Thanks!
Mouse gestures are one of big reasons I haven't switched to the Wayland session yet.
Man, all these fancy details just keep me from getting important stuff done, but your enthusiasm made the video worth watching nevertheless 😅
i knew everything except the krunners thing
About rolling up and down the windows: Xfce (used to) enable it by default, also having a button next before the minimise button. I added the button to the decoration, and also as an Xfce user currently using plasma I enabled the rolling up/down by scrolling the middle mouse button on the decoration (same behaviour as Xfce). It could be a nice default for Plasma too :)
I just started using "desktop console" this past weekend! Stops stalking me 😂
Thanks for the video! This type of videos ("hidden gems") are super useful for KDE users. I didn't know couple of them and I thought I use KDE extensively.
BTW, am I shadow banned on this channel?
та ні, ти тут, і я тут. All's good
@@mks-h Thanks. Can you go to previous video "We have a BIG FOSS Maintainers ISSUE" and tell me if you see my lengthy comment 3 days ago about that core-js guy? And another one - check a reply to "Hoyt Eternal" under that video? It shows "4 replies" under his comment but doesn't show mine.
Lately (last 3 months or so) I'm encountering that many comments from Ukraine that even remotely touches our situation are deleted or hidden, so no one can see them (shadow ban), and I already heard the same thing from other Ukrainians that it become much much worse lately and that they experience same thing.
@@gylkag from the core-js vid I can only see your little comment Nicco replied to, and your reply. I don't have time to look for others, sorry. Today I was trying to reply with instructions on installing something from the command-line, and the reply was constantly deleting - I knew because I tried editing it, but it always errored out when trying to save the edit. Also, the reply was disappearing on reload. It worked once I wrote to just install from Discover, though 😅 Shadow ban is a beach
I didn't read the title, just the priview, and I thought the video will be about Plasma 6 features :P
Same.
Thanks
Number 5 is literally why I am trapped in KDE Plasma. Literally anything else is a downgrade over the control I have with KDE. It actually make me angry at CSD because KWin is so much more powerful. Combine that with a Unity-like experience you can make out of KDE (see Garuda Linux), and it was amazing on my older laptop with small screen and for my workflow in general.
Didn't know about Thumbnail Aside and how granular Invert can be, but glad I know now.
I hate CSDs for the exact same reason
Nice👍
thanks
It is seriously impressive how much Plasma can do
Nice background
oo, I really want the Breeze Decoration LIM as default... would be so great :D or as an easy option to toggle!
OK, I didn't know any of these, maybe also because I never really used KDE, although I am preparing to move one of my computers from Ubuntu Unity to KDE to try out if I can do everything I want with Wayland. Which is absolutely needed if Unity doesn't get Wayland compatibility soon or changes so drastically that I'd anyway have to relearn my desktop workflow.
Loved to learn about the mouse gestures! Nicco, which is the action/command you have to set to make a mouse gesture trigger overview? Typing "Meta +W" in the command field isn't much use, that's not how it takes in key strokes... Otherwise, there's just a file picker? Edit: He has a very long, hardly readable command in there, but can't figure it out...
Note that adding buttons to titlebars does NOT work with all themes. Some decorations just don't let you do it. I'm guessing they don't have the icons for it. So if you try to do it and won't let you - try changing the window decoration.
Knew none of it lmao. KDE is amazing
More things to play around with. I knew most of the useful stuff but you have tempted me to waste a few hours with mouse gestures. Great video
These features are truly compelling and exciting and it is hard to wait! I believe this will be the very best, KDE release ever! A release like this takes a large team effort and a financial endowment. Y'all take your time with it. People can wait for you to develop it until you feel fully comfortable with its release. My thanks to the KDE team for their long history of developing great desktop systems!
One thing I love about KDE, and I think it has been there for a while, is that you can configure mouse clicks on background applications to just raise the window. macOS kind of does this, and I prefer the UX compared to passing the click through to the application.
It's something I notice when going back to Windows / Linux: just bringing a window to the front with a mouse _without_ changing the state is kinda hard these days. If you have CZcams in theatre mode, like 90% of the area you can click on will end up pausing the video.
suggestion for next video: 6 gnome features you actually did not know
Gnome has 6 features at all?
@@liemaeu I mean it was just a suggestion lol
KDE is the bomb!! The best DE Plasma, and some of the best apps ever to exist, Kate, Dolphin, Krunner... and so much more!
On that note: Hey Nicco!!!! How do you feel about "Mirror browsing" in Dolphin? Basically it means: Let's say I have two folders, they each have many duplicate files, so in dual pane mode with both open, and in mirror mode, any files in both are highlighted in a specific color in both panes, which makes it easier to see which ones are identical, and which are different. It's great for restoring a few files from a backup... Of course there can be many filtering options too, like by size, type, age... so it can be used for different operations, and sort of a visual and simple to use file comparison tool between any two folders. Navigating up or down through a folder tree can show how the tree relates where when one does not have the same folders the side where the selected folder is missing goes dark or turns red, or similar... I can only imagine how far you KDE peeps can take it, and the many uses one can find for it!
Yes, I know I'm a sneaky one!😜
Alas some less known things. I didn't know about "mobile applications" and "desktop editor", other I use. Also, if you delete everything in Dolphins location and press icon to the left of location, you'll see the list of available location types.
When you said "Dolphin hidden places", I thought you meant the feature where you can right click an item in the "Places" panel and click "hide" then you can show or hide such "hidden places" whenever you want. It's a great feature to hide your porn collection place...
You should do one video only on the mouse gestures !
thank you very much, for this video - maybe you can make more content about kde scripts and the desktop shell scripting console ?
Most powerful DE in the Universe!
I really feel like the Kioslaves should be expanded and also made more explicitly discoverable. Like, why has `settings://` been depreciated? Why is File search not the same thing as `baloosearch://`? Why isn't `man://` indexed by file searching?
I love KDE but there's so much stuff like this which is there, works great, but is so hidden that nobody notices when updates break it.
Something I started doing is thinking "oh it would be cool if KDE could do 'thing'" and asking ChatGPT if it can and how to do it, usually the answer is yes. lol
9:08 Looking at the keys, I wish we could map shortcuts to mouse buttons (e.g. 4 and 5).
Sure, you can use xbindkeys (if using X11, don't know if or what would be used on Wayland), but it's still a bit annoying.
Amazing DE ! I couldn't find the mouse gestures settings though (Plasma 5.27) in the 'Shortcuts' section. How can I access it ? And the 'shade window' is not working on Wayland (as far as I know)
I need this--- and all distros need to have some kind of INSTRUCTION with them..
Hi. Great innovations. Now you need to remove the title bar from the main window, from the word completely. Add an adjustment to the smoothness of the rendering animation of Gtk elements of Gnome windows, and it looks like a slide show in comparison with QT. Solve the problem with the flickering of the window context, which, as I assume, is due to the KDE realtime api (the flickering effect itself is not observed in the system, it appears when you start some games, such as WarThunder)
I love shades, in windows it was winroll
There seems to be some bug within gestures setting. When I click on enabling the gesture deamon on the startup, it's never saved. The apply button is grayed out as if nothing was changed. But even when I coupled it with changing of reaction time (like 298 ms) and clicked "Apply", it still didn't save it... Is some optional package needed for this?
Thumbnail aside !!! I was looking for this Picture In Picture feature in KDE for a couple of years and I knew I used it in the past...but KDE changed its name !!! hahahaha thanks !!!
One little feature I used also in the past and I completely forget where is it is the command to SAVE my desktop theme !!! Also I remeber I can put a screenshot as a sample like the others that came with the default installation...I remember there is a command that opens a dialog to save the theme !!! Someone ?
Window rules were broken for me in Plasma 5.26. I use it to fix Firefox Picture-in-Picture window (it's super annoying it doesn't work the same way like in Windows by default). It works now for 5.27
I knew about most of these, mainly because I dug through all the settings trying to get it tuned exactly to my preference after moving from windows.
Still midly annoyed I can't have separate keybinds for maximize and minimize (and other) to get a directional association between Meta+Up=Maximize and Meta+Down=Restore
5:29 please make a video explaining how to do!
Ironically, a third of the ones I knew about nolonger exist (settings in Dolphin, but not used in many years and may have only used once). The others were the application style transparency, which isn't available for the style I'm using and transparency in colours txt file.
Next big feature for KDE 6 should be wayland by default same with sddm.
I actually like the shade feature in Plasma although I couldn't get it to work on Plasma 5.26 in Wayland display server, and for me for some reason I cannot see the shade button (which I do use) in the breeze theme after updating from Plasma 5.24 to 5.25 onwards so I have to use an older KDE Plasma theme in order to use the feature...
Unfortunately the Shade/Unshade feature has never worked in Wayland, due to its design I think. I lost that feature when I migrated from X11, I used it a lot... I hope one day it will be possible to find a way around the wayland protocol to make this work.
@@francislamonde Hopefully they'll find a way to implement the feature into Wayland display server but I'd personally highly doubt it since it's so-little used by most people and newer GNOME apps don't support the feature due to their use of Client-Side window controls (CSDs) instead of the Server-side window controls (SSDs) that are used by QT Apps on KDE or all apps on Haiku.
@@francislamonde Wayland seems to be way shittier than X11 for crazy mods. Yeah, it may be more "secure" but man... limitations as far as the eye can see.
@@karaloop9544 Security no one really needs in the first place :) Linux servers are administered via command line, nobody uses GUI for that. For desktops, Linux is not the prime target of malicious software, moreover, software is generally installed from repos, not random places from the Internet. Oh, and we talk about potential security because something missing in the protocol does not mean it cannot be implemented outside of it. One notable example is desktop sharing, being implemented via desktop portals and pipewire by Wayland compositors. There is nothing preventing developers of said compositors to make it insecure. The only reasonable argument for Wayland is that X is not future-proof anymore: in the age of compositors, X-server only adds up clutter and the X protocol itself is so fossilized that it effectively impediments adoption of new features.
KDE videos now featuring bisexual lighting 👁️👄👁️
(fr though loving the new look!)