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Icons on the desktop! The minimize button! Visible Panels and docks! Just kidding, don't have a heart attack. :) Well actually there are some things... just not those! The full list can be found at https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_6#Removals, and it's public; we're not hiding anything! Today I wanted today provide a bit of context and explain the…

This week SDDM--the venerable login manager used by KDE and some other DEs--finally got a new release after two and a half years! This work was pushed through by a variety of KDE contributors, notably Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Fabian Vogt, David Edmundson, and Harald Sitter. At this point they contribute the overwhelming majority of changes…