| Re: I don not like some of the changes
May 15 2016 on poll How do you like Plasma 5? |
Now - about one year later - I am using Plasma 5.5 on my main system. It's ok - but still far away from KDE 4 - for me it is still in its puberty, maybe at the state of KDE 4.2 (concerning the desktops), and 4.3 (that was the point where I switched and thought at least now one can work with the system). There are so many things still missing and not working as they did in KDE4.
Dolphin still doesn't show all required information when copying files. The systray has a kind of life on its own presenting me icons I don't want and not the icons I want to see. It was a pain in Plasma 5.4 but with the current 5.5 it happens less often, now most of the time when I log in it looks like I want it to look. And I can now have "drawers" in the panel - finally again - (quicklaunch widget with popup) but they are kind of wide - and buggy and show too big icons which overlap. When I play a game which changes the desktop resolution my widget layout gets scrambled. I cannot see the date in a format I like (but an appropriate replacement for the clock is available, so it IS possible). Kjots is still missing, I cannot read any of my notes. There is a lot more that was working/working better in KDE 4.
And Plasma 5 alas gives the user a lot less control over the look & feel, e.g. some icon sizes are chosen *by the system* depending on the desktop resolution - pure horror for me - I am the user, I (want to) have control (I now that's so Tron - but nonetheless ;) ).
But i can't help, I am missing my different desktops a LOT! I can live with one wallpaper for all desktops but it still is a pain for me to have the same widgets and launchers on all desktops. For me it feels crippled like Windows with its one desktop.
This is no rant - beware - nonetheless I am quite content with the desktop. I see that it is evolving - and I acknowledge the work of the devs.
Nonetheless the devs do a good job, I guess it is quite difficult to adjust to a new Qt version and there ARE things that have become better, i.e. the handling of the activities /which I still don't want to use/ and the dragging of the widgets (not so relevant for me anymore as I have to abstain from most of them now - no space anymore on that "one" desktop. And some of the features I hate (or at least are not that happy with) others will love.
Now I am desperately waiting for my distribution to give me 5.6 where some of the missing features/bugs are added/fixed. And maybe with 5.8 Plasma 5 will become mature. Maybe with 5.12 it will be perfect - and then the devs will be turning everything upside down again I guess... that obviously is the circle of KDE-life.... |
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