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KDE Plasma Finally Gets Rounded Bottom Window Corners (neowin.net) 30

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:5, 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.

    • 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]

  • [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.
  • Finally. This is what is most important to humanity. Forget about solving inflation, sky high tax rates, pollution, greenhouse gasses, or traffic.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Finally. This is what is most important to humanity. Forget about solving inflation, sky high tax rates, pollution, greenhouse gasses, or traffic.

      If their job and purpose in life at this moment is to make KDE better, why in the FUCK are you pinning ALL that shit on them? Dare I ask what YOU contribute towards issues you choose to use as weapons?

      Go ahead. Toss another stone from that glass house. Validate why we have a valid definition for the word “hypocrite”.

  • 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.

  • Eye-Candy instead of Performance? (Score:3)

    by pz ( 113803 ) on Sunday July 20, 2025 @08:35AM (#65532514) Journal

    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.
  • 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".

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