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What's Going On In KDE Plasma Workspaces 2?

Posted by Unknown on from the smaller-and-better dept.

jrepin writes "While moving its codebase to Qt5, the KDE Development Platform is undergoing a number of changes that lead to a more modular codebase (called KDE Framework 5) on top of a hardware-accelerated graphics stack. In this post, you'll learn a bit about the status of Frameworks 5 and porting especially Plasma — that will be known as Plasma Workspaces 2, paying credit to its more convergent architecture."

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  1. KDE4 and Gnome 3 are unusable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    KDE4 and Gnome 3 are unusable, period. Years wasted, usability lost.
    Please, keep it simple and release a working desktop manager as XFCE.
    Performances and resource usage comes right after usability, and would be nice having something using less / better resources of previous generation dm.