KDE Plasma 6.7 is ready with Wayland session management & other new improvements

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ConfusedIlluminati@reddit

I hope global push to talk is still a thing in 6.7.

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_Sauer_@reddit

This is already supported in KDE via the global shortcuts portal. Apps need to implement it by registering configurable shortcuts via the portal's dbus interface. Its quite easy to do.

Discord hasn't of course. I still have to launch Discord as an X application and set KDE to allow apps running under XWayland to listen to any keypress so I can use PTT with a mouse button.

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dnu-pdjdjdidndjs@reddit

they coud so easily expose the same functionality on wayland where you manually register binds to pass through to specific applications too they just aren't chill like that

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repulsive-kat@reddit

It's probably because that's an awful user experience and theres already a solution that app developers can use.

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dnu-pdjdjdidndjs@reddit

how is it an awful user experience for something to work as opposed to not working

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the_abortionat0r@reddit

Imagine telling little Billy to do all that shit instead of having devs use what's available.

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Yeah bro the average Linux user can't fucking Manually register a keybind But we got five million posts in here every day about how the Discord keybind doesn't work Can we be serious even just a little bit

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repulsive-kat@reddit

Discord has the ability to implement this feature. They choose not to.

If this feature is really something you want and is as simple to implement as you think you could always do it.

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dnu-pdjdjdidndjs@reddit

I have implemented it

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mike_olson@reddit

In case it's helpful: I made a systemwide push-to-talk program that can work with Discord or any other program; it does need xremap to correctly detect both press & release of the chosen hotkey: https://github.com/mwolson/pttman

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Ripdog@reddit

That doesn't look like PTT, but rather mic mute/unmute. For that, KDE has it built in, in the system key shortcut control panel. You just need to assign it a key combo, and it even shows a nice little OSD when you press it.

That's what I use, but both systems are useless if you need true PTT.

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mike_olson@reddit

Thanks for the feedback. I decided to change the behavior of pttman so that it feels a bit more like first-class PTT: press/release aliases for mute-while-pressed, mute by default on start (and device connect/reconnect), and resists muting from other sources unless they go through the daemon with mute/unmute commands.

If you have some other mechanism that can trigger on key release (instead of just press - or are binding a modifier which KDE seems to allow key-release actions for), that could certainly be integrated with pttman in place of using xremap if the other benefits above are ever wanted.

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undrwater@reddit

What's push to talk in this context?

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loewenheim@reddit

Your microphone only being active while you're pushing a button in a VOIP app like discord. People want that to work regardless of whether discord is the active app or not.

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undrwater@reddit

Thanks!

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julioqc@reddit

fuck Wayland

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the_abortionat0r@reddit

You sound like a crackhead screaming at 2 am.

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julioqc@reddit

lol glad I make you feel at home

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martin7274@reddit

Minecraft on Vulkan is good

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julioqc@reddit

lol well that changes everything

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Clairvoidance@reddit

make your own

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GameKing505@reddit

I’m afraid this ship has sailed

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troyunrau@reddit

You must be fun at parties

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Natural_Night9957@reddit

Bet their session management will include user's age verification.

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the_abortionat0r@reddit

That's a thing that you think?

Fuck dude you need help.

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Hopeful_Rabbit_3729@reddit

Wayland yutani

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suszuk@reddit

Vayland

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LuckySage7@reddit

Seeing the KDE team constantly cooking like an iron-chef with each release makes me feel a lot more resolved & in peace with each donation >.<

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Infinity-of-Thoughts@reddit

Wayland lacking a session management protocol was honestly one of the reasons I ended up ditching it.

Wasting time on opening all windows into the correct sizes, and virtual desktops, really just made it obvious why so many people like window managers.

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Per-screen virtual desktops support was merged

Made my day.

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momoladebrouill@reddit

67

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DeltyOverDreams@reddit

You dropped a dot