KDE Ships Second Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace

Post by leorocky » Wed, Jun 11, 2014, 12:49 PM UTC

veeti wrote: post #3

johnchristopher wrote: post #2

Based on the screenshots it seem KDE devs tone down their interface to simpler visuals (icons, colours, shades and all the blingbling I usually associate KDE with). Is that the trend for the next iteration of KDE ? (I like it)

Yes, they have a new design project: http://wheeldesign.blogspot.fi/ Although in my opinion their work hasn't exactly been a huge improvement so far. It's just a flatter coat of paint with the same issues that already plague KDE: inconsistent padding and spacing, terrible organization (think system settings) and so on.

Post by guard-of-terra » Wed, Jun 11, 2014, 1:28 PM UTC

jbert wrote: post #26

Is there an easy way with KDE4/dbus to get functionality similar to KDE3/dcop? Example task: 1) inspect running konsole task to find exposed interfaces 2) find one related to background colour 3) script up "change background colour to red in current konsole" command Last time I looked at the KDE+dbus situation (early KDE4) it seemed this was really hard.

Post by cubancigar11 » Wed, Jun 11, 2014, 1:34 PM UTC

intull wrote: post #20

KAMiKAZOW wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually more optimization is taking place than visual refreshes. Porting the stuff to Qt5 (esp. QtQuick2) should speed everything up on non-ancient PCs. Visual refreshes are just easier to explain. ;-)

Its not speed I'm bothered about. KDE is more or less very smooth at that. Its the resources it takes! The CPU is always nearly being utilized on a small-medium scale, and nearly 700mb is taken away at boot-time and gathers upto 2gb upon usage. That's too high, at least I think so. Would KDE actually require so much for all the features it gives or can that actually come down?

Post by emilsedgh » Wed, Jun 11, 2014, 1:59 PM UTC

Yaggo wrote: post #45

jcromartie wrote: post #31

This screenshot: http://kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0-beta2/plasma50b2-netw... Is this supposed to illustrate the "beta-ness" of the release? Because it's an atrocious UI. Two different-sized "wrench" icons next to each other? What are those checkboxes for? What does the little blue bar above the wireless symbol supposed to indicate? The blue lock is lost in the wireless icon in the network list (the eye is terribl…

KDE versions 1-3 were great piece of software. Remember kioslave's support for ssh/sftp? Awesome stuff. The current state of the project makes me sad.

Post by catern » Wed, Jun 11, 2014, 2:01 PM UTC

jbert wrote: post #26

Is there an easy way with KDE4/dbus to get functionality similar to KDE3/dcop? Example task: 1) inspect running konsole task to find exposed interfaces 2) find one related to background colour 3) script up "change background colour to red in current konsole" command Last time I looked at the KDE+dbus situation (early KDE4) it seemed this was really hard.