Bug 516074

Summary:	Great ideas for KDE Linux
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	loveyourselfgregory
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status:	CLOSED NOT A BUG
Severity:	major	CC:	nate, olib141
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description loveyourselfgregory 2026-02-16 10:11:27 UTC

Not a bug, but an idea(s).

I use an Arch-based distro with KDE on top of it. Dolphin won't show .heic/.heif (which are used by Samsung and Apple phones) files thumnails (previews) unless qt-heif-image-plugin is installed. Please, take care of it in KDE Linux too.

Second idea. Consider creating a separate gaming edition of KDE Linux, featuring a gaming mode (similar to one in Bazzite, which uses the Gamescope compositor to reduce latency and enable the proper HDR support) and preinstalled gaming software (similar to that in CachyOS' cachyos-gaming-meta package). Or just implement all of this in the main edition. Without such an edition, your OS can't be called "a general purpose OS" since gaming is an essential part of it.

Also, instead of Firefox, mainly controlled by Google, consider using Zen (used by Origami Linux) or Brave in KDE Linux instead.

Cheers.

Comment 1 loveyourselfgregory 2026-02-16 14:11:50 UTC

Oh yeah and use fish by default (bash is in the Ep files... 😱)

Comment 2 Oliver Beard 2026-02-16 14:35:13 UTC

> Install qt-heif-image-plugin by default

This is an AUR package that isn't supported. kimageformats provides heif support, but libheif is optional and likely not installed. That's something we can fix. I will raise this feedback.

> consider creating a separate gaming edition of KDE Linux

To the best of my knowledge this is not something we are interested in, nor something we can do better than other distributions.

> Also, instead of Firefox, mainly controlled by Google, consider using Zen (used by Origami Linux) or Brave in KDE Linux instead.

No. Also, Brave is based on Chromium which is *fully* controlled by Google.

> Use fish by default

I'm sure it was considered.