Plasma anyone?

[Billie Walsh]

On 03/29/2015 03:22 PM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On 03/29/2015 03:29 PM, Billie Walsh wrote:
>> On 03/29/2015 01:57 PM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>> I finally got 15.04 loaded and it seems to run fine with one MAJOR 
>>> problem for me.
>>>
>>> It uses the plasma 5 desktop, which I wouldn't mind, except that my 
>>> entire desktop settings (icons, widgets, etc) are gone.   Now I'm 
>>> all for change, but making me start over with a desktop is not going 
>>> to set well with a lot of people I think.
>>>
>>> Am I missing something here?  It's probably something stupid like 
>>> opening some secret window where all the settings will be...  but 
>>> for the moment it looks like I am a new user, without anything on 
>>> the desktop.
>>>
>>> Not a happy camper.
>>>
>>>
>> I'm not one for clutter on my desktop but according to the video on 
>> Youtube, linked from KDE, you click on the little box in the upper 
>> right and you can have all the dodadds, whatchamacallits, 
>> thingamabobs, bells and whistles you want.
>>
> Yeh....  I'm fighting my way through all of the glitter and crap....   
> Have been able to get virtual desktops back and trying to learn how to 
> switch between them....   and all the rest of the "learning curve" 
> with this stuff.   As one person said in a comment:  "It's ok but 
> still not as good as Windows 10"...   which means it's not good at all.
>
> Now, if I can just get some developer to come to my house and convince 
> my wife that she should relearn everything she knows about KDE (not 
> much) and drag her kicking and screaming into Plasma...  all will be 
> fine..   :-)

The stupisist thing is they talk about "convergence". One desktop 
experience for all devices. That worked out so well for Microsoft with 
Windows 8 after all. *<]:o(