To Stable: KDE 6

[MingcongBai]

Before we consider KDE 6 stable-ready, there are a few tasks and bugs to address. This issue serves as a memo for those items.

This list is not exhaustive and may be expanded in the future.

Features to Implement

Functionalities

• systemsettings, KCMs: Eliminate or hide KNewStuff entries as they are simply too susceptible to broken or even malicious addons
• Additional KCMs to ease system management
  • systemd units, timers, etc. (Maybe port systemd-kcm? But it's too old)
  • User and system configurations.
    • User: bashrc, xprofiles, etc.
    • System: GRUB and other boot-up configurations (Something like msconfig)
  • Emulation solutions (AArch64, LoongArch, and RISC-V), allowing users to select between say LATX and Box64 on LoongArch; Box64 or FEX on AArch64
    • Maybe even more detailed settings for specific emulation features
  • System features (X-AOSC-Features or *-base), like "Adding/Removing Features" in Windows
• Dolphin: Pop-up file operation dialogues to replace the notification area window (making it the default rather than a fallback when neither taskbar nor notification area progress indicators were enabled)
• Kickoff/Application Menus: Allow using Pinyin to match Chinese Keywords= entries

Appearance

• Konsole: A higher-contrast default colour scheme (Campbell-based, probably)
  • Ported and submitted upstream: https://invent.kde.org/utilities/konsole/-/merge_requests/1046
  • Possibly consider Tango for better vibrancy, or revise Campbell with a more vibrant variant?
    • WIP: Softer "black": #020202 => #1f1f1f, brighter "white": #cccccc => #dedede
• Look & Feel: Darker (?) and more monochromatic theme (referencing perhaps Windows Vista, make the UI a bit less plasticky)
• KSplash: A less harsh transition between login, splash, and the desktop
• KLockScreen and SDDM: Make the appearance more consistent and less susceptible to badly scaled displays

Packaging

• Split out qt-6-doc, as we did for qt-5

Bugs to Report

KScreenLocker

• Desktop showed before the lock screen when opening the lid of a laptop (X11 only)

KSystemStats

• Desktop/panel widget crashes on !x86 when CPU monitoring is enabled (RAM monitoring works fine).

Plasma Shell

• A strange box shadow border when using a floating panel (X11 only, maybe even GPU-specific)

KWin

• Win-Left/Right is not treated equally as drag-to-tile

[chiyuki0325]

Bugs & Feature Request

• Provide krdpserver or krdp, upgrade xdg-desktop-portal to > 1.17.0
  There's a built-in Remote Desktop server in KDE 6, which is not included in the AOSC KDE 6 packages now. On Wayland, it depends on the InputCapture interface of XDG Desktop Portal > 1.17.0, but the AOSC one is still in version 1.16.0.
• Rebuild packages related to gtk-4
  In the KDE 6 topic, appstream was updated to version 1.0.3 which provides libappstream.so.5, but packages using GTK 4 (or GTK 4 itself) still depends on libappstream.so.4. A rebuild is need to make them work again.