Plasma anyone?

[TuxMario DETREB]

Hi all

We have to keep in mind that standard releases are for adventurers and 
LTS ones' for users liking new things even with some desagrements

I'll have some remarks from my wife in one month but i will continue to 
upgrade each 6 months.

Cheers
Le 30/03/2015 07:32, Clay Weber a écrit :
> On Monday, March 30, 2015 06:25:28 AM O. Sinclair wrote:
>> On 29/03/2015 20:57, 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.
> The settings are in relatively the same places they always have been, and
> accessed the same ways; this is not like the drastic KDE3 to KDE4 move.
>
>>> Not a happy camper.
>> I am very reluctant to leave 14.10 for this reason. As I understand it
>> Plasma5 is far from production ready
> This is quite debatable, actually, especially in recent months. Plasma 5 is
> quite stable and even in early Kubuntu alpha and betas has gotten good press
> and praise, It is the still-pre-release Ubuntu side of things, where things
> like video drivers and the like can still poke people.
>
>> and I would not want to find that I
>> can't use certain plasmoids, software etc because they are "not yet
>> compatible".
> Your *software* will be compatible, some of the *plasma widgets*, yes, may not
> be available (especially third-party ones), but that list is shrinking as we
> get to plasma 5.3 soon.
>
>> Have a feeling that waiting for 15.10 could be a better option
> .....for some people, sure. No problem with that ;)
>