LibreQuest there is a screenshot of my Plasma desktop in the screenshot thread, from FreeBSD 14.x. I have FreeBSD 15 now, and it wasn't an upgrade, it was fresh pkgbase install. I just restored my home dir, and packages, and I have the same desktop.
Since KDE Frameworks and KDE Gear aren't explicitly dependent on Wayland; the Foundation should get behind the SonicDE fork (and XLibre) and contribute bug fixes through the FreeBSD Desktop Team. Wayland is a dead end. It's deficient and loosely defined protocol standard will end up in GNU/Linux-style fragmentation again. Who the hell wants to switch between a thousand different implementations of a display compositor (which share no conformity in code quality and/or performance), just to try a different desktop experience. It's simply stupid. Not to mentioned their progressive dependency on systemd.
For the KDE detractors - not only is KDE pretty malleable nowadays (for those who care about tweaking); it's pretty lightweight for the amount of eye candy you get (at least compared to Liquid Glass/macOS or Fluent/Windows11 and it's system-wide consistency), and it's developed atop a modern, stable development framework. The community seems to be more FreeBSD friendly also. Although I think the Plasma UX is still bloated/ugly - it's a sane move on the Projects end for all things mentioned.
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