Hi Richard,
very glad to read you are happy with the decision to use KDE Plasma
after all these years :) I will do my best to answer some of your
questions, and perhaps others here can add to my reply if I missed some
things. Beyond the responses below, you may also want to check out the
"Get Involved" page at our wiki, which has loads of useful info:
https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved
On 9/19/23 02:41, Richard Troy wrote:
Hi Folks,
I've been a Linux users / sys-admin (and a lot more) since Red Hat 1.2,
with years of 'nix experience before that. However, I'm new to KDE and
am so glad I switched!
I could write a testimonial about WHY I switched for good, the, oh, 20+
other desktops I evaluated, the two other modern desktops I actually
tried (other than GNOME, which I've suffered with since time
immemorial), but I'll skip that unless anyone asks about it.
I get it that this list isn't for "technical issues," so instead I'm
asking for pointers on _where_ (or how, etc) the best places are to
address these technical topics. So, just generally speaking:
1) I like the Stack Exchange family of web sites with their Q/A format;
does the KDE community have something like that?
Check out our official forum Discuss, which uses a Q/A format:
https://discuss.kde.org/
Although it is not part of the official KDE infrastructure (as far as I
understand), you can also check out the Fediverse-based Lemmy instance a
contributor has set up:
https://lemmy.kde.social/
2) I have noticed that the GNOME community, such as it is, doesn't
actually appear to listen to their user community much - unless, of
course, you're a paying customer of Red Hat, which I haven't been for a
long time now; Does the KDE community have a place to discuss the
bigger-picture issues and creative ideas for direction? I have a lot of
perspective, solid feedback, and straight-forward, simple-enough
suggestions for some future features that I'd like to put out there
somewhere that'd actually be useful.
Feature requests can be made at the KDE Bugtracker:
https://bugs.kde.org/
There is also a brainstorming category at the forum where you can toss
ideas around:
https://discuss.kde.org/c/brainstorm/7
3) I probably haven't looked hard enough but is there a road-map of what
the current thinking is on the direction of KDE that I can take a look
at?
For high-level goals guiding KDE, see here:
https://kde.org/goals/
The schedules page at the wiki may also have relevant information for you:
https://community.kde.org/Schedules
For instance, here's the schedules page for Plasma 6, to be released in
Q1 2024. Here further details and links can be found:
https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_6
4) I have a few non-problem issues that I haven't found in any how-to yet
that I'd like to address promptly or they'll just drive me nuts.
In particular and as a perfect example: A number of items to be found
in the Launcher's (default?) categories are in the wrong locations and
in addition to fixing these, I'd like to add some that are missing. But
the "edit" feature is bewildering to say the least! Can I add
categories? ...A pointer to something helpful on this particular
point would be nice, but in general, is this a place to ask questions
like that?
I don't have an answer for your specific question, but this is certainly
something that could be asked at Discuss (https://discuss.kde.org) or at
one of the many other channels to reach the community:
https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Many_Ways_To_Reach_Us
I hope this helps!
Cheers,
Joseph
Thank you much,
Richard
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