 Hello everybody! I have an announcement to make which is sad and that is I'm currently going through university exams and that means that I have much much less time than usual to actually make these videos. So what you will see me doing as I did last week is easier videos that actually require less time to set up and hopefully I will maintain a regular publishing schedule maybe three to four videos a week but I have exams and if I have to study more then I will cut with some of the videos. So what I'm going to do today is I'm starting a series on actually commenting of baby bogus videos and what is that? Well I actually think that commenting on other retubers say about KD Plasma is actually useful because often they criticize Plasma and I can think that as a starting point to give you some insights on why KD Plasma is the way it is not to mean that you shouldn't criticize KD Plasma you should actually and it's actually a way to explain why those criticism are valid or maybe invalid in the first place. However most Linux YouTubers are very professional and don't criticize Plasma much at all and one YouTuber that does in a very unprofessional way in my opinion at least is Baby Vogue. So what I'm going to do is I'm starting a series actually on criticizing Baby Vogue, criticizing KD Plasma which I think is only fair. I mean in the past Baby Vogue has been very disrespectful to KD developers as a whole. So I think that if I comment on some of these videos correcting him when one is wrong and actually saying okay KD Plasma is indeed wrong in this case when you're right and Baby Vogue is sometimes right. I think that might be useful and for you to actually gain some insights on why KD Plasma is the way it is. And the first video that I actually missed completely when this was published some weeks ago is about me so this one is actually fair it's about the floating panels which I landed so I haven't watched it yet and let's actually see what he says. So it's again this tough time you need to congratulate the enemy and every YouTuber is an enemy. YouTube Baby Vogue you're my enemy now. For his first big contribution the flow- Why did he say the first big contribution like that wasn't my first big contribution I yet made merge requests before that were even bigger but okay I guess. Floating panel option most specifically. Okay so we're starting with the default panel that is without floating and one more thing to notice is that the menu in every widget really is floating less too. Yep that's the default. Now long tapped it under editing mode and we open panel options and more options and what we want is to first set to floating panel yep and we see it gets all the available width of the screen which perhaps isn't what we want but the maximized panel option is dead or I don't have idea what it is. It maximizes the panel like that's so clear maximized panel it makes it as wide as possible if you click maximize panel it becomes maximized if you want to make it smaller I guess it's supposed to do anyway. It's gonna use the arrows now. Anywho our next move is to set the auto. You need to use the arrows this little thing is are supposed to you know I'm actually planning on changing this aspect of the panel settings to make it easier to use but ah come on Baby Vogue Why? That we can combine it with a persistent panel on top because we most often don't want to get an always visible floating bar and since the panel is hidden I don't see why because I made sure that if the panel is like always shown and you maximize a window it becomes a normal panel so it's perfect. We can also increase its height maybe on 52 pixels because 54 gets unnecessary hum all done I guess let's exit edit mode and we can now enter to our floating panel slightly floating of course because we don't want to rob much of space in case you set it to always visible. Yeah you can actually customize how much it should float via plasma theme so you can do your own plasma theme where it's much more floating but slightly floating are also the widgets which is super great but I'm happy that it thinks they're super great um because that was not a bug but I didn't actually want to do that I'm planning on a patch to actually make dialogues nicely floating like properly properly floating however it wasn't done yet and this was kind of a side effect to the panel taking more space so I thought okay let's just go with it. Touching the left edge seems that is going to be fixed with a new floating dialogues super wrong to be honest the implementation is in that good and falls behind deep end that comes with the same functionality but much more polished and eventually plasma panel will get there and besides it will be unfair to judge on underdevelopment software. To be fair there are currently lots of visual bugs about this but I mean super new functionalities you know but what I'm gonna judge is Kaewin that is so impossible awful flickering here but it's not flickering it's this is actually quite complex just plain but when you draw the panel in kedi plasma behind the panel you're also going to draw two effects which are the blur and the contrast effect now the blur we don't quite care you won't even notice but it does stop I mean you will notice but it won't cause any visible glitch whereas the contrast contrast effect does and the reason it does is that the contrast effect basically draws a white plane like a white rectangle let's say underneath the panel to make sure that even if you're using like a completely dark wallpaper you can still use properly you can still see probably the panel even if the panel is transparent so that's the reasoning of the contrast effect it also does much more as an example it takes a dominant color from the wallpaper and makes it much much more saturated so it's easier to spot on transparent panels and it's a pretty pretty fundamental part of the design of kedi plasma however uh it's this rectangle underneath the panel is sometimes some frames behind the panel itself so when it's closing as you can see the panel is going down the desktop effect is also going down but slower and that means that you can see one pixel line where you don't have the panel but you do have the contrast effect which is a white rectangle so you see a one pixel white line that is of course a bug that should be fixed you can immediately opt out if you go into system settings and disable contrast effect that's something that I usually recommend against because it kind of kills part of the kedi plasma design but if you really hate that bug you can opt out so much worse and the performance with nvidia drivers is totally unacceptable for so long even the years so that was everything for now congrats again to the thank you thank you kedi by the way I have a name developer and wish you many more contributions in the future okay this was the first video second video is this one it's about check boxes and ready buttons hello baby wogers and welcome to the baby world reality hello and so as you're well aware kedi is very famous for their unbeatable ux consistency i'm really happy to hear this because i'm actually currently the consistency gold champion i'm the guy that makes makes sure that kedi is as consistent as possible i've done many contributions in the past but not just me other developers as well so kedi is actually in its latest release very consistent and of course there's always room for improvement but compared to years ago it is miles ahead if only this wasn't sarcasm but i discovered an unacceptable design mistake by the lovely plasma developers and on this movie i'm challenging you to figure it out are you ready let's do this please your full attention is required so you have my title bar okay menu bar yes toolbar welcome to the amazing kde universe control and what do you mean what else did you expect who's the menu bar to the toolbar yes some next level design and needing more additional actions yeah that was changed because i mean it's only the label that actually skirts people if it was like a full menu bar people wouldn't be skirt and actually we changed it to a more appropriate label but it's actually a good design so but don't be worried for all those yeah it's just because we say the exact number of actions we remove that don't worry what you should only be concerned about is a remote charge at menu which everybody uses obviously so have a good look at it yeah it looks okay bad let's move on to your challenge escape and escape and escape and escape you could just click anywhere you don't have to escape five times escape from the plasma prison maybe so control and shift in him to bring the menu bar correct and then we go to settings and window color scheme and observe carefully yes these ones are very new buttons the other one were checkboxes so did you spot the difference with before and the glorious mistake of kd developers to recap both the checkboxes menu and dolphin and the radio buttons menu and console were equally ridiculous so they preserved the ux consistent okay let's actually give a look at this one so this is um select remote char set let's let's give it a look dolphin and you uh more now it's called more tools select remote char set okay have less let's select default okay i'm actually not sure what this does at all but okay it did something refresh the view what if i also select arab okay and then i go back and look at here default and arabic are selected at the same time and the reason why this is checkboxes and not radio buttons is that you can select multiple remote char sets at the same time that was easy to figure out like it's the design is not only like it's correct what else did you expect if you can select multiple elements it's checkboxes if you can only select one it's a radio button that's the whole idea behind those components so you just did an entire video about a feature complaining that it's a bug and it's actually not it's by design the next one this is oh that blue frame featuring plasma 5.21 and we're going a bit and so in the previous video subtyped super titles in italian are not meant okay you may completely focus on the location bar that now renders on toolbar so you may miss the work on the sidebar with the bigger padding and some more changes that makes everything looking more modern and of course yeah those changes were very much needed i'm very happy about the design of dolphin nowadays of course we also get hard disk indicators now they're getting pretty rare thing i mean they were kind of redesigned now yeah now there's slightly better better spacing and stuff it's not just one pixel lines anymore by the way i'm not sure what things are 5.20 and what 5.21 but i'm on kde master now in any case we're still getting that stupid blue frame and some more unnecessary separate okay about the stupid blue frame and the unnecessary separators okay this stupid blue frame as it calls it is currently the only way that we actually express that a view is selected what you see here inside of the blue frame you can see that it's darker it's called a view it uses the view background color and if it's selected it goes blue now generally speaking kde vdg so visual design group developers or designers actually agree that this line is too much and there is an ongoing merger quest to actually get it out of the window together and when baby boy we did this video we actually already said that we wanted to get rid of the blue frame however it's not easy because kde from years and years and years ago was designed to have views with the blue frame around it you can get rid of the frame by changing color schemes but it's a hacky way and to actually properly get rid of that blue frame you do need to make a pretty complex merger quest that it's in the in progress but of course it might take some time the unnecessary separators are not actually unnecessary i mean it literally pointed to the separator between the title bar and the windows content and if you need one separator it's that one so i don't know yes and it is completely amazing how those little details transform a pretty file manager to this crap you see i mean i wouldn't call it crap i agree that the frame can get in the way but again when it's gonna be when it's gonna be fixed it's gonna be better but i mean crap is a strong word and i'm gonna prove my point to you simply by setting an application style without separators um i think that appearance grouping is also new anything i'm gonna change the application style delightly and nothing else just lightly actually uses a shadow it still has the concept of a view and it rose a shadow behind the views instead of a blue outline um i think it also has maybe an hack to avoid that endorphin specifically but it's a hack obviously it's that uh kevan tomb also has a hack in that particular way and observe magic so yeah you can see that the view is still its own component and you just have shadow instead of an outline having shadows for views is really not the way that breeze does things so we can just copy the concept as is on default breeze just because the blue frame and the separators were gone dolphin looks like five versions to be honest it looks five versions backwards because everything else is broken i mean i mean you have this sidebar on the left which is blurry pretty and everything okay and then you have this very thin line which casts a shadow on the sidebar and then you have also the view that casts a shadow on the separator and then you still have one separator here and now the toolbar is not connected to the title bar anymore it just looks worse to me and honestly i think that the default sliders in breeze are prettier than this ones versions ahead we still have two problems though the first is that the title bar has a different color from the rest window and active so i'll try to keep window and active to see the best results and by the way i tried to fix that from theme but i believe it is bugged or something no there's must be a way to fix this you change the color scheme of the active title bar the problem is a blur on sidebar because that could only work if the sidebar was consuming the full vertical space which is not the case here but hopefully we can change that from settings we just need to set sidebar's transparency to full opaque okay and now let's reveal the fruits of our labor and guys just check how beautiful dolphin actually is if we get i mean i mean i don't see that much of an improvement honestly it even rhythms at all anyway i'm letting you watch speechless because amazon is charging me like there is no tomorrow am i going to get demonetized because of that song i hopefully not anyway that was everything for today but baby buggy i'm not done with you you've done more videos where you talked about talked bad things about kitty plasma without any reason to do that so i'm gonna get you and by the way also thank you to everybody who donates to me and i know that now isn't the best time to actually ask for donations because of the less videos by we compared to usual but still i'm trying my best to actually keep the channel alive so if you want to help out well donations are probably the best way but you can also do many other things i don't know subscribe and stuff like that you can also ignore this video completely honestly it's up to you you choose and as always thanks for watching and see you tomorrow or the day after with a new video