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A locally run, self hosted AI assistant that can do everything ChatGPT can do, where you have control and ownership of the model and can mix with open models that are updated automatically, - and a mechanism where it can be instructed to design widgets as well as other simple desktop features that adhere to system wide privacy and security policies on request...
...yes.
Working and well-integrated "run this on that rendering GPU", with unused GPUs being switched off (laptop use case).
Trackpad gestures, KDE (like 3 finger swipes customisation). THEM TO STOP MOVING AROUND THE SETTINGS.
The ability to easily resize scrollbars, KDE.
We had them right for so long.
Desktop as a service. With the latest feature being worked where apps can be handed off to another compositor, I want the next stage where my compositor and desktop can be swapped with my intervention or notice. Wanna do redundancy? Running the backup live as a hot swap. Wanna do live updates with no interruption? Start the next compositor, try and loads the apps, if nothing breaks, swap the user, if the user doesn't hit the notification to revert kill the last session.
Add in better remote compositor support and it can get really cool. Allowing for a distributed DE across your devices. Making high availability more possible as well, but that might actually be overkill.
That's actually on the way with Plasma 6...
Not a DE, but I'm really waiting for tearing on sway so I can play games without a second tty 🥲
All the Wayland stuff related to gaming in GNOME.
Cinnamon has this but I wish KDE had it. The ability to right click an application in the task bar and have the option to "move to other monitor."
Ability to run Android apps.
Sliding Tiling Window Management akin to PaperWM for Gnome.
GNOME desktop icons that aren't an extension that isn't as good as something native.
I am very excited for Pop OS to get the new Cosmic desktop. Not really a specific feature but an entirely new DE that is quite different from the others and built from the ground up in Rust. Hopefully the first version won't be totally broken and full of bugs!
XFCE, press f4 to open a terminal pane at the bottom of the file manager, like in KDE.