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KDE Plasma Finally Gets Rounded Bottom Window Corners (neowin.net) 49

Posted by EditorDavid from the rounding-the-corner dept.
Feature work on Plasma 6.5 this week includes "a major visual change that has been years in the wanting," according to the KDE blog: "rounded bottom corners for windows!"

Neowin reports: This visual refresh, planned for the upcoming Plasma 6.5, is a feature that many users have been asking for over a long period, with a formal proposal even being submitted back in 2021. Its official arrival will mean less need for community-developed workarounds like kde-rounded-corners, a popular third-party script that has served this purpose for years. The feature will be enabled by default, but it includes an option for those who prefer the classic, sharp-cornered look.

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KDE Plasma Finally Gets Rounded Bottom Window Corners

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  • Why (Score:4, Insightful)

    by paxmees ( 5484586 ) on Sunday July 20, 2025 @07:49AM (#65532478)
    So instead of fixing the constant bugs and crashes, you're hardcoding a "feature" we already had with plugins? This isn't an improvement; it's a step backward. We used to have the *choice* to add these effects. Now you're forcing them on us and removing customization. Focus on making KDE stable, not on trivial visual garbage.

    • Re:Why (Score:4, Interesting)

      by mfearby ( 1653 ) on Sunday July 20, 2025 @08:17AM (#65532498) Homepage

      Devs love to work on eye candy. Fixing bugs is boring. It's why "the year of Linux on the desktop" still isn't a thing.

      • Devs love to work on eye candy. Fixing bugs is boring. It's why "the year of Linux on the desktop" still isn't a thing.

        * glances over at 30 years worth of Microsoft bugs *

        Oh, they’re focused on cashing out on eye candy? Go fucking figure.

        Rather obvious one doesn’t need to be stable, to be successful.

      • Devs love to work on eye candy. Fixing bugs is boring. It's why "the year of Linux on the desktop" still isn't a thing.

        Maybe they could work on a "The Year of Linux on the Desktop" wallpaper?

      • If my music plugins and flight sims (which I now rarely play) it would have been Linux on my desktop for the last 20 years. In terms of work, though, it has been, and for the decade and half prior it was UNIX. These days, for work, I fire up Windows occasionally for Visio and Project.

    • Re:Why (Score:5, Insightful)

      by quantaman ( 517394 ) on Sunday July 20, 2025 @09:13AM (#65532556)

      So instead of fixing the constant bugs and crashes, you're hardcoding a "feature" we already had with plugins? This isn't an improvement; it's a step backward. We used to have the *choice* to add these effects. Now you're forcing them on us and removing customization. Focus on making KDE stable, not on trivial visual garbage.

      Implementing features through plugins is one way you get bugs. And the WM without plugins is generally how new users (who might not stick around) experience it.

      And I'm sure they were working on bugs as well, it's just the eye candy is what got the headlines because it's what people see.

    • Re: Why (Score:2)

      by PPH ( 736903 )

      Hey! At least it's a start. [blogspot.com]

    • >"So instead of fixing the constant bugs and crashes, you're hardcoding a "feature" we already had with plugins? This isn't an improvement; it's a step backward. We used to have the *choice* to add these effects. Now you're forcing them on us and removing customization."

      They are not removing the choice to turn that feature off. But they are removing the choice to remove the bloat of the code, that is true. I am not sure why they would do that. Personally, I think rounded windows are a silly fad. They

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by kbahey ( 102895 )

      This attitude of tweaking things, reducing configurability, reducing stability, pushed me away from KDE.

      Switched from Kubuntu to Xubuntu, and never looked back.

    • if you RTFA you can see it can be disabled, so its not being forced on you.

      but yeah, if theres a plugin that does it, kinda waste of effort, unless the plugin was a performance issue or something..

    • So instead of fixing the constant bugs and crashes, you're hardcoding a "feature" we already had with plugins? This isn't an improvement; it's a step backward. We used to have the *choice* to add these effects. Now you're forcing them on us and removing customization. Focus on making KDE stable, not on trivial visual garbage.

      I'm absolutely certain that rounded corners will be the only change in a tenth update...
      (I don't know what's more douche-chill inducing and depressing, the comment itself, or the fact it's marked "5, Insightful")

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by allo ( 1728082 )

      They can do both. It's not GNOME where each new feature means another feature needs to be removed. And adding the rounded corners was probably only a few lines of code.

      The real WTF is that Slashdot thinks it's worth an article.
      Nate writes a weekly recap about KDE development that is really nice to read, and also mentions the small improvements one wouldn't think about (but possibly notice if they weren't fixed). This is one of the small details you probably won't see in a release announcement, but can find

  • [KDE] ”We got rounded bottom corners! Fuck yeah!”

    (Me) ”As a seasoned Slashdotter who’s endured many a lawsuit submission about Apple vs. Round Corners, one can only hope this is the White Flag of Sanity being flown, and this design feature is finally in the public domain.”

    (Apple, channeling Dave Chappelle while filing suit) ”Gotcha, Bitch!”

  • now I can stop holding my breath.
  • Really, nothing better to do?

  • Presentations used to be printed on SLIDES that would go on a PROJECTOR that would backlight the slide onto a 45 degree mirror onto a screen. This is LONG BEFORE PowerPoint.

    Then Apple introduced the ability to create slides, and they had features like a "cloud" which meant "that thing in the middle we don't care to define at this time." Date went in. Data came out. Cloud picture was the 1990s version of the black box. Also, there was now an option for a BORDER on each slide, and borders could include S

    • It's retro. Some people like the old way. I get i.

      Default to Serif fonts when? I'm getting tired of the ends of character strokes chipping when the rendering engine's stone masons carve them.

  • How about just working on making KDE smaller and faster, instead?

    Pretty please?

    With the last Plasma update, the time to intialize my desktop went from acceptable-but-could-be-better, to (not kidding) 60+ seconds. No changes on my side.

    (And to the folks over at Mozilla, you've completely dropped the ball for rapidly getting Firefox to a usable state.)

  • I will always remember where I was and what I was doing when I first learned about such earth-shattering, epoch-making news.

  • I don't even want rounded corners. I like sharp windows.

    What a typical waste of time.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by PDXNerd ( 654900 )

      What a typical waste of time.

      You're right. Posting shit talk on slashdot about what a free developer does in their time is a serious waste of time. Also, if you had even read the brief summary you'd see its easily disabled.

    • I quite like round corners. It's customisable enough that we can both be happy. If I used KDE. Isn't choice amazing - I can choose to use curvy KDE corners or not KDE at all and you have have your eye out with sharp stuff if you like.
  • Seriously, maybe someone needs to work on a UI where adding rounded corners, dark mode, raised buttons, etc etc is as trivial as it should be.
  • ... pointless but well done I guess. I assume KDE is doing it because Windows has it and they're always trying to play the same notes without understanding the tune.

  • Well, to be fair... (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Apple only added round bottom corners to their windows in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, back in 2003. Congratulations, Team KDE, you've really hit it out of the park with this one!
  • I'm probably remembering wrong, but I could have sworn that at least one of the themes available on KDE2 had all rounded corners. KDE was great in the 1.x days and we were all thinking about how great it was compared to Win95/98. KDE 2 was even better with lots of bug fixes and looked much fancier KDE 3 was worse as the devs decided to remake a ton of things that already existed KDE 4 ? IDK lost track. I moved to different desktops that don't use the Windows 95/98 paradigm of the start menu in the bottom

  • ... This, this finally will get all those people clicking to Linux then?*

    *Don't get me wrong, I hate so much of Windows and MS and am reminded nearly every update why they infuriate me but a) in my work systems I have no choice and b) I like to play games on my PC and c) I've grown out of the "pleasure" of tinkering with my computers like an old car in the garage. When I run my system I am doing so to accomplish something else, not just "get the system to run".

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Samare ( 2779329 )

      You have the wrong idea about Linux.
      In the 1990s and 2000s, it was that way.
      Nowadays though, if you tweak the system it's only to make it like you want. Whereas I couldn't do so with Windows.

  • Cool, though I don't care about this much, it's only for looks. When can they bring back individual backdrops per virtual desktop, that are very useful instead of just eye candy? And while they're at it, please bring back the desktop cube, properly. I've tried what's in the latest KDE release in Arch, and it's nowhere near what it used to be. Pretty please...? And yes, thanks a lot for making the desktop environment that's been my favourite for about 2 decades now.

  • the year of the Linux desktop!

  • Cool story, but I just switched back to Cinnamon after wasting a bunch of time trying Plasma again. It still felt like a janky piece of shit. At least it was better than the mess that GNOME has become. All of this really just makes me appreciate how much work has gone into developing Windows' UI, despite Microsoft slowly eroding it. Why does Linux need all these half-broken desktop environments? I appreciate the chaos of open source, but after using Linux for 25 years I'm still continually disappointed...

  • KDE was supposed to be an open-source replacement for CDE, the standard and very usable desktop for Unix workstations. The last time I saw KDE running on a machine it looked like Windows 11. But I guess this is what people want because most Linux window managers look like Windows 11.

    Not me. FVWM FTW!

  • I don't need rounded corners, i need better non-hinding cursors to manipulate the windows. That needs to be customizable without any fancy stuff. I need speed and accuracy. I'll pay for an Apple/Microsoft/Google if i want to play - i'm using linux because it's a serious system. I'm using KDE without animation and i turn all the fancy stuff off. But the scrollbar is one absolutely annoying feature. I just want it big enough, not hiding, to be able to select it precisely. There's no need to follow Microsoft,

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