Plasma anyone?

[Billie Walsh]

On 03/29/2015 03:40 PM, Billie Walsh wrote:
> 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(
>

stupidest

Fingers have a brain of their own.