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Plasma 5 Release Candidate Announced

Posted by Soulskill on from the test-before-it's-too-late dept.

sfcrazy writes: The KDE Community has announced the first release of Plasma 5. It's a release candidate, so it's meant for testing and preview purposes, like the developer preview of Android L. The final release will be announced next week, so this is the last chance for testers and developers to find issues and get them fixed before the release.

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  1. XFCE by corychristison · · Score: 2

    Anyone else notice its starting to look more like XFCE?

  2. No way to distinguish which is the active window. by dotancohen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is the active window in the official screenshot:
    http://kde.org/announcements/p...

    It looks like usability took a back seat to "Apple-like" flat, monochromatic design on this one.

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  3. Re:No way to distinguish which is the active windo by rkoot · · Score: 2

    Well, I can actually tell quite easily that the 'system settings' window (the one in the back) is the active one. In the taskbar the blue underlining tells you what's active. Plus you can tell since the windows' title is greyed when not active.

  4. Gnome 3 by DrYak · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would you have preferred that it looks more like Gnome3 ?!

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    1. Re:Gnome 3 by xyzzymage · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I use KDE in large part because it separates the window element/widget design (checkboxes, etc.) from the colors, and lets me control what color everything is -- the defaults that KDE, Xfce, etc. all pick tend to be so low-color & high/low-contrast that they give me headaches. I also generally prefer KDE because of the little useful touches like the easily-added/programmed extra context menu actions in the file manager, integration of KDE-Look, and things like that.

    2. Re:Gnome 3 by armanox · · Score: 2, Informative

      Because I much prefer Qt to GTK?

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  5. configurability by DrYak · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And, this being KDE, by the time it's accepted in mainstream, it's going to be configurable, so you can make it paint the title bar of active application in neon pink, if you want.

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  6. FFS, that's not what a release candidate is by Bogtha · · Score: 2

    It's a release candidate, so it's meant for testing and preview purposes, like the developer preview of Android L.

    If you label something as a release candidate, what you are saying is "we think this has been completely finished. Everybody check it out, and if we haven't screwed up, we'll rename it as the final version". Hence the name - it's a candidate for release. "Release candidate" is not another name for "preview" or "beta".

    This is the kind of crap that gave KDE 4 such a bad reputation. Labelling things as done when they are still major works in progress. If you don't think it's finished, don't call it a release candidate. Don't label it as a new major version. If it's not finished, then it's neither of those things.

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