Plasma anyone?

[Bruce Marshall]

On 04/02/2015 02:20 PM, James Cain wrote:
> > I've been using the version of KDE that comes with each kubuntu 
> release...  And I do a fresh install every new release.  And I haven't 
> really paid attention to the KDE version I was using as long as it
> > worked. So 15.04 has switched to Plasma 5 (is that KDE 5?). And it is 
> not working so swell.
>
> 15.04 is not a new release. It's not even yet a release. In fact, at 
> the time of your email it was still *Alpha* software.

WRONG!!   See "Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) Final Beta released" as of 
March 26th.


> Sure, there's bugs. In fact, for day-to-day use in any kind of 
> environment that would be deemed /important/, LTS versions of all 
> Ubuntu flavors, including XFCE, are recommended. Currently that would 
> be 14.04, which has a 5-year support status. Honestly the only 
> conclusion one could reach here is that the OP likes XFCE better than 
> KDE (which is fine), and chose to pin the reason for the switch on 
> what the OP calls buggy software.
As I stated....   there is enough wrong with Plasma 5 that I DO NOT 
think the bugs will be fixed for quite some time.   That, and the fact 
that I don't need/want all the glitz of plasma, made me go back and try 
XFCE.



> Without even an example of what he meant or any attempted solutions to 
> fix it, except to write about it here in very general, and non-helpful 
> to readers of this mailing list, terms. The fact that this thread even 
> has this many answers to it is a bit baffling.

Ok, call me a troll if you like...   But that's not the case.


>
> James
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:54 PM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com 
> <mailto:o.sinclair at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 02/04/2015 16:23, bmarsh at bmarsh.com <mailto:bmarsh at bmarsh.com>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >> On Apr 1, 2015, at 11:49 PM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com
>     <mailto:o.sinclair at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> On 02/04/2015 03:13, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>     >>> Well, I guess plasma is not for me...  at least not at the
>     moment in a
>     >>> beta state.  But I think there will still be bugs when it goes
>     live in
>     >>> 15.04.
>     >>>
>     >>> I have switched to XFCE4 which I used to use and really
>     liked.  It does
>     >>> everything I want to do and has been around long enough that
>     the bugs
>     >>> have been worked out.
>     >>>
>     >>> The reason I gave up on XFCE at one point was that Kmail
>     wouldn't run on
>     >>> it...   but then Kmail began to have pains and I gave up on
>     Kmail and
>     >>> switched to T-bird.  That's what linux is all about:  choice!
>     >>>
>     >>> So for the moment things are nice with 15.04 as I re-learn my
>     way around
>     >>> XFCE.  But it looks like it will work out just fine.
>     >>>
>     >>> Thanks for all the help on Plasma 5  and I may return to it
>     someday in
>     >>> the future.
>     >> Not quite understanding: did you leave the well working KDE4 to
>     >> experiment with KDE5 and then reverted to XFCE4??
>     >>
>     >>
>     >
>     > I've been using the version of KDE that comes with each kubuntu
>     release...  And I do a fresh install every new release.   And I
>     haven't really paid attention to the KDE version I was using as
>     long as it worked.
>     >
>     > So 15.04 has switched to Plasma 5 (is that KDE 5?). And it is
>     not working so swell.
>     >
>     That is what I don't quite get. 15.04 is not even released. You
>     can stay
>     with 14.10 and still upgrade kernel and most other stuff via ppa
>
>     So if your upgrade to every new version is not about KDE and other
>     software, what is it then about?
>
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