@Kiefciman The color gradient is cool!

@toothpaste_sandwich On my phone I have several Wii sound effects for different notifications. Messages & emails have the Wii Message Board “new mail” sound, important notifications have the “update complete” & “copy data complete” sounds, bad notifications have the “failed to read disk” sound, & other notifications have the Wii menu click sound. The UI still has no sounds at all though because Android launchers never have sounds :(

@toothpaste_sandwich Right now I just have the KDE Oxygen sounds because I haven’t set up any custom sounds since I’m not sure how to yet. I really liked the Wii & Wii U sound design though; they did alot of the work making the console fun even outside of playing games, even things like changing system settings & hearing the clicks & scrolling sounds. I would love to have a computer with similarly complex & fun sound design.

@fin It looks really good so far! I like the color scheme. Post an update when you finish it!

@rozodru You’ll have to put Doom music in your next preview video!

@harbard Keep backups of your entire home folder. That way if it happens again you can quickly restore. You could use a systemd timer or cronjob to run rsync at a set interval & have it copy everything to a flash drive you leave plugged in, or maybe better to copy, then compress, then delete the copy once you have an archive. That way you can keep multiple backups as .tar.xz files or something, & if your SSD suddenly fails in the middle of a backup you’ll at least have part of a functioning copy, allowing you to restore the backup just before it & then update from the partial copy.

I wonder what will cause your entire operating system to disappear, could it have actually been a corruption? I had that once & it caused my operating system to be unbootable because the filesystem was damaged & the computer could no longer find everything required to boot. I was able to repair my ext4 partition by using fsck in a live session off of a USB flash drive, then I was able to boot again & I didn’t lose anything.

@rozodru It looks really good!

How did you come up with the name? I know the NEDM meme but I wasn’t sure that was it since I can’t see how it applies.

@Sunsofold Oh ok! I’m pretty sure that’s another widget, but I forgot what it’s called. The menu bar can be hidden by setting a window rule, then you can add the widget to the desktop or a panel.

@victorz @Gemini24601 Do you mean the app icons on the bottom bar being separated from the launcher icon on the left? The task manager (which displays the app icons) & the launcher (which gives you a categorized list of all installed apps when couches) are different widgets in modern Plasma. You can put other widgets between them, such as a panel spacer like what’s shown here. A panel spacer is an invisible widget that takes up a certain amount of space on a panel or can be made “flexible”, which will cause it to take up all available space but allow other widgets to take that space back whenever they push against it. Two panel spacers are holding the task manager in the middle of the panel.

@jjba23 Is the code machine generated like their profile picture, or is this a real thing?

@Soapbox1858 I like the color scheme alot! It’s similar to mine but darker.

@BuboScandiacus I don’t know about a command that can do that, but usually the manufacturer will have that information. Search the video decoding capabilities of your GPU’s chipset. Mine is an Acer Predator Bifrost with an AMD Radeon 7600 chipset, so I search “Radeon 7600 video decoding”. Usually your fetch program can tell you what your graphics card is, but sometimes it can’t tell. Mine can’t tell what exactly my graphics card is, but I can still find out by reading what it says on the graphics card itself or the box it came in.

@NorthWestWind Very cool!

@BuboScandiacus It doesn’t slow it down, but it might be because it’s a very small video & the computer is good. The computer has video decoding hardware for the video format I’m using, so that might be reducing resource usage more. The wallpaper also supports automatically pausing the video under certain conditions to free resources, such as low battery or a window being fullscreen. I haven’t tried this on a worse computer. It should only slow down the computer if it uses the CPU to decode the video, which happens if your graphics hardware doesn’t support the format, or if the file is large & consumes alot of memory. I transcoded the video to AV1 because my graphics card can understand that format & because videos in that format have a very small file size. It’s probably best to try out different things & see which one slows down your computer the least.

@blinfabian @Fizz You have to build it yourself this way though :(
Maybe it’s distro dependant. I’m using Fedora & Neon, & I don’t see this in “Get New” or Discover on either one.

@blinfabian @Fizz This doesn’t show up for me, only on the store.kde.org website. “Get New” is always so inconsistent :(
Discover doesn’t show it either. Here it is on the KDE store.
https://store.kde.org/p/1625420

@checksout I missed this!
I got the split panel & side bar by just making two more panels. Plasma lets you add extra panels & put them on whichever side of the screen you want. For the two bottom panels I had to manually adjust their sizes so they would only fill the left half or the right half of the bottom. You can probably do this with other desktops that have panels or if you only have a window manager & a bar there’s probably a way to duplicate that bar. I think I’ve seen similar things done with Waybar but I don’t know if it’s really two bars or if it’s just visual. I’m only familiar with Plasma so I have no idea how to do this with anything else.

@Deebster I know that Mastodon does weird stuff to videos, but I’m not sure why the images won’t work.

@Deebster If the background is Pokemon, it’s from the work in progress post & not this one.

@Hadriscus The future is now.