KDE Plasma 5
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KDE Plasma 5
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Re: KDE Plasma 5
#2I think KDE is doing the right steps with KDE5 technology-wise. But I'm still very confused by the way KDE split up the project and started to do separate releases. Now we have Plasma5 and I think there is a 5 version of the frameworks but not of KWin etc. I mean sure it will help them get the projects released and tested. But I'd love to hear a "KDE 5 released" announcement and install it. Instead of "One part of KDE 5 was released" announcement every once in a while.
And yeah Breeze looks awesome. Can't wait to use it.
Re: KDE Plasma 5
#3I think KDE is doing the right steps with KDE5 technology-wise. But I'm still very confused by the way KDE split up the project and started to do separate releases. Now we have Plasma5 and I think there is a 5 version of the frameworks but not of KWin etc. I mean sure it will help them get the projects released and tested. But I'd love to hear a "KDE 5 released" announcement and install it. Instead of "One part of KD…
I guess one of the main ideas is to port to Qt5 and use the latest technologies.
Re: KDE Plasma 5
#4The kernel doesn't have much to do with the desktop environment running on top of it, what would the kernel's future have to do with KDE Plasma 5?
Re: KDE Plasma 5
#5The kernel doesn't have much to do with the desktop environment running on top of it, what would the kernel's future have to do with KDE Plasma 5?
Having read the article, nothing at all.
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#6The kernel doesn't have much to do with the desktop environment running on top of it, what would the kernel's future have to do with KDE Plasma 5?
Having read the article, nothing at all.
It has, but it is not abvious and thus a bad title. If the future of Linux (the kernel) is to be used on Tablets or other non-desktop-computer thingies, we may need other desktop environments (like Gnome 3). As this is questionable, a desktop-focused DE like KDE with the ability to later adapt to those seems like a good choice.
But yeah, it's vague and using one corner too much. Linux Desktops would have been the better term.
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#7Am I the only one who lost interest in Desktop Environments ? I'm either satisfied with bare minimum (XFCE/ThunarFM...) or barest minimal (wmii/xmonad...).
KDE5 is surely a great piece of tech but I fail to see what's new except for a cleaner KDE4 in terms of UX; these days I feel dom/javascript bear more innovation (maybe too much).
Re: KDE Plasma 5
#8Am I the only one who lost interest in Desktop Environments ? I'm either satisfied with bare minimum (XFCE/ThunarFM...) or barest minimal (wmii/xmonad...). KDE5 is surely a great piece of tech but I fail to see what's new except for a cleaner KDE4 in terms of UX; these days I feel dom/javascript bear more innovation (maybe too much).
I love using awesomewm with Arch Linux because of its minimality, but I use Lubuntu only because I cannot configure fonts to look good in Arch as in Ubuntu, tried ubuntu fontconfig packages but no luck.
Re: KDE Plasma 5
#9Am I the only one who lost interest in Desktop Environments ? I'm either satisfied with bare minimum (XFCE/ThunarFM...) or barest minimal (wmii/xmonad...). KDE5 is surely a great piece of tech but I fail to see what's new except for a cleaner KDE4 in terms of UX; these days I feel dom/javascript bear more innovation (maybe too much).
I love using awesomewm with Arch Linux because of its minimality, but I use Lubuntu only because I cannot configure fonts to look good in Arch as in Ubuntu, tried ubuntu fontconfig packages but no luck.
try infinality from aur (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/freetype2-infinality/) way better fonts than ubuntu, and couldn't be easier.
Re: KDE Plasma 5
#10Am I the only one who lost interest in Desktop Environments ? I'm either satisfied with bare minimum (XFCE/ThunarFM...) or barest minimal (wmii/xmonad...). KDE5 is surely a great piece of tech but I fail to see what's new except for a cleaner KDE4 in terms of UX; these days I feel dom/javascript bear more innovation (maybe too much).
I love using awesomewm with Arch Linux because of its minimality, but I use Lubuntu only because I cannot configure fonts to look good in Arch as in Ubuntu, tried ubuntu fontconfig packages but no luck.
But this is orthogonal, and 'good design' should give us a DE independent way to ensure the right fonts are there with good font rendering settings.