This all seems very reasonable, it seems like the plasma team made the right decision to remove semi-broken / obsolete parts, but Unsplash removal because of AI scraping is a bit disappointing.

Plasma is amazing. It has been my DE of choice for years now. So happy I’m donating to the project.

Can’t say that I’ve really used any of the features mentioned in this list, so doesn’t really affect my experience negatively. Also, updating some icon sets to fit with the overall theme would provide a more unified experience. So two thumbs-up from me for removing code that, by & large, wasn’t getting used, should help maintaining it in the long run.

At first I wanted to “complain” about the removal of the thumbnails task switcher, because I prefer that one. But then I noticed that the thumbnail grid is the same and better! So if you were using what I, maybe the grid version is what you actually want.

Also, I love the concept that you can put back things that were removed from Plasma without building it all yourself.

Shame about khotkeys, but I get it.

Thank you for the reasonable communication, it helps.