Bug 516074 - Great ideas for KDE Linux
Summary: Great ideas for KDE Linux
Status: CLOSED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kde
Classification: I don't know
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR major
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Reported: 2026-02-16 10:11 UTC by loveyourselfgregory
Modified: 2026-02-16 14:55 UTC (History)
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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.