LWDW 320: KDE takes a swipe at Windows 11

KDE puts Windows 11 to shame, rolling Ubuntu Rhinos, Gnome 42 is packed with new features, and a Raspberry Pi powered pinball machine.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
06:16 Gnome 42 new features
11:11 RIP nice GTK buttons
15:04 KDE takes a swipe at Windows
19:44 Debian 11.3
23:49 Rolling Ubuntu release with Rhino
30:49 Mini Pi powered pinball

GNOME 42 (RTheren)

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/03/gnome-42-best-new-features

Having built-in screen grabbers is tops.
print screen =’s grab.
It even does video.
Screen sharing in GNOME 42 makes use of RDP rather than VNC.
Lots of apps have been ported to GTK4.
GNOME 42 has been released, with lots of new features, as well as many enhancements, smaller improvements and faster performance.
GNOME 42 is the first version of GNOME to put libadwaita at its core, and this updated toolkit brings a fresh new look, better performance, and new widgets.
And because of the libadwaita integration, something we have waited quite a while for is now here, there is a new global dark mode UI style preference that has arrived in GNOME 42.
- This can be used to request that apps use a dark UI style instead of light.
- And can be found in the new Appearance panel in the Settings app.
- But it not only switches the UI to dark, it switches the wallpaper also to a dark style.
There are two new default apps: Text Editor and Console.
The GNOME browser now enables hardware accelerated rendering on all websites.
GNOME’s virtual machine app, Boxes, which I use a lot for virtualization, has a redesigned preferences view and has better support for modern UEFI operating systems.
Thank you to our Advisor RTheren in chat for posting this in our Show suggestions.

RIP nice buttons

https://blog.brixit.nl/the-end-of-the-nice-gtk-button/

- Ever have a favourite button?

“hint at not completely loving the new libadwaita theme I instantly get shut down”

- How dare you disagree with the Gnome hivemind.
Yes, everything is flat now but compared to skeuomorphic?
Blood for the flat design gods!
Welcome to the brave new world of GTK4.
Dude is really against using libadwaita on mobile.
I personally love the new Adwaita theme, and that it is more minimal and modern.
But I do feel for Martijn, and his love for the old school roundy buttons, that I still like to.
- He states: “Everything is flat now. Borders on widgets have been eradicated! Blood for the flat design gods!”
And he has a great point about libadwaita being a huge decrease in accessibility.
The buttons in the header bar look the same as titles now, thus making it harder to visually see.

KDE swipe

https://www.neowin.net/news/kde039s-new-swipe-gesture-will-make-you-wonder-what-they039re-even-doing-in-redmond/#comment-598722245

https://pointieststick.com/2022/03/26/this-week-in-kde-progress-on-gestures-and-15-minute-bugs/

The upcoming release of KDE Plasma 5.25 in June will have a new touch screen swiping feature that is even nicer than the one in Windows 11.
Users with touch screen devices will be able to enter their tasks and virtual desktops overview by simply swiping down from the top edge.
But there is something cooler than just a standard swipe:
Swiping down from the top edge is so beautiful and fluid because the tasks and virtual overviews follows the path of your finger and change size.
Plasma Mobile is a beautiful OS, and they are bringing that sleakness and great touch control to the KDE desktop.
Kwin for the win!
When running the Plasma Wayland session in a VM, clicking on something now causes the click to actually go to the correct place, rather than being slightly offset.

Debian 11.3

https://www.debian.org/News/2022/20220326

Installed in the studio, nothing exploded.
Lots of security fixes:
- Clamav has a new upstream stable release which fixed a denial of service issue [CVE-2022-20698].
- Fixed some more intel-microcode mitigation security issues.
- And fixed several apache-log4j2 vulnerabilities and remote code execution and security issues.

Danger roll

https://hothardware.com/news/ubuntu-linux-rolling-release-rhino

https://rollingrhinoremix.github.io/

It’s pulling development packages.
Then rhino-update shows up and pulls things that are not in the dev branch.
Do not use aptitude first, or else it might overwrite your capability of running rhino-init and rhino-update.
This project has no affiliation with Canonical Ltd. or Ubuntu and is not considered supported by Ubuntu.
But Rolling Rhino is a nice way to make Ubuntu a rolling release, and thus update to newer application updates and critical libraries.
Instead of having to wait for Ubuntu’s slower release cycle.

Slice of Pi

Pinball Pi

https://www.chrisdalke.com/projects/mini-pinball-machine/

https://github.com/chrisdalke/mini-pinball-machine