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KDE Releases Plasma 5
KDE Community (3396057) writes "KDE proudly announces the immediate availability of Plasma 5.0, providing a visually updated core desktop experience that is easy to use and familiar to the user. Plasma 5.0 introduces a new major version of KDE's workspace offering. The new Breeze artwork concept introduces cleaner visuals and improved readability. Central work-flows have been streamlined, while well-known overarching interaction patterns are left intact. Plasma 5.0 improves support for high-DPI displays and ships a converged shell, able to switch between user experiences for different target devices. Changes under the hood include the migration to a new, fully hardware-accelerated graphics stack centered around an OpenGL(ES) scenegraph. Plasma is built using Qt 5 and Frameworks 5."
sfcrazy reviewed the new desktop experience. It would appear the semantic desktop search features finally work even if you don't have an 8-core machine with an SSD.
Last time i tried it was called nepomuk. Did they rename the process? :)
Thank our KDE developers for their hard work. I'm really impressed by KDE and have used it a lot over the years.
I thought a "pro" meant anyone who gets paid for his work. I was paid for my work on Thwaite and RHDE: Furniture Fight , two NES homebrew games that I developed using GIMP, Python, ca65, and other pro quality development tools for GNU/Linux.
From a embedded systems designer: FPGA development - Lattice Diamond runs on Linux - free to download, not open source KiCAD Schematic capture & PCB layout - free to download, open source VariCad Mech designer - licenced software MPLabX PIC microprocessor IDE - free to download Qt for cross platform apps Windows/Linux/Android/iOS With Libre office & other tools it's quite possible to run an engineering business from a Linux platform, which I do.
Time for bed, said Zebedee - boing
Would like to try Plasma 5 on my Debian Jessy laptop... but sure don't want to hoze up the current Plasma 4 install....
BTRFS snapshot. Install. Try out. If you don't like it, copy BTRFS snapshot back to active.
And if you're not using BTRFS ... why not?
No Pro Quality Linux applications? I guess Maya and Matlab are junk then.
I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
Looks awesome guys. Keep up the great work!
Can someone who has tried this tell me whether two particular bugs that were present throughout the life of Plasma 4 have been fixed (OK, you may not think these are bugs, but I sure do: I can't imagine how they were ever allowed to persist, since to me they seem to violate pretty basic requirements of GUI behaviour):
1. If one has a menu present (for example, by pressing the K-Menu button), does an incoming notification still cause the menu to disappear, so you get the delightfully random experience of clicking on whatever happened to be under the item you were about to click on?
2. Can a single misbehaving plasmoid still cause the entire desktop to freeze? (This typically happens to me if the network connectivity is lost: poorly-written plasmoids that need network access can block and cause everything -- not just the plasmoid in question -- to freeze.)
Geez, it's not Apple UI innovation - not by a long shot. It started with Microsoft first (flat tiles!), then moved to Android. iOS is actually the laggard here (mostly at the behest of a bunch of over bored journalists who see "new and shiny" as "innovative" rather than "if it works, don't fix it').
Apple only caved because (noisy) journalists were calling OS X and iOS "tired" and "dated" because they looked pretty much the same over the years, while Microsoft and Google were "innovating" in UI design by going all flat so it looks "fresh and different".
For the record, I preferred the old look, I like my faux 3D, and while skeumorphism was a bit over the top with stitched leather and green felt, it still felt a bit more casual than today's flat designs that give an air of formality.
There is a somewhat detailed review of Plasma 5 here:
http://www.themukt.com/2014/07...
The released videos seems very impressive.
I really love KDE. I sometimes work on Mac OSX or MS Windows 7, and I must say KDE beats every other environment I have tried when it comes to flexible workflow and productivity.
Whenever I work on other peoples computers, their personal files are always in a mess with their "Document" and "Download" folders loaded with hundreds of various files. I think this is simply because 1 panel file organizers like "Finder" or "Explorer" are really inefficient and hard to use for organizing and moving files. So I long for a twin panel file manager like Krusader, every time I work on other peoples machines.
The way KDE functions are integrated is also a joy: right click on files for useful things as packing and unpacking, or attaching the files to an email etc. A really smart GUI for mass file renaming (in Krusader by krename) is incredible useful too.
Looking forward to Plasma 5, probably included in Fedora 21.
The names are often from languages other than English, because Linux is developed internationally. Like how Wiki is Hawaiian and Ubuntu is Nguni Bantu.
Nepomuk is a town in the Czech Republic and the name of a Saint. Baloo comes from Rudyard Kipling Anglicizing the Hindi word bhalu.
So shut up with your whining. They're not hurting you.
I'm waiting for a stable release.
any AC who posts like you is an asshole who contributes fuck all to a conversation and is a waste of space. shove your head down the toilet and flush to get all the shit out of it, repeat until the water is clear
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
I'm still using 3.5, in the form of Trinity Desktop.
I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
I'd have to say "just as good". Let me explain why: In my work, I try to minimize dependencies on third-party points of failure. This means I'm more likely to choose tools that are available on multiple platforms in the first place. GIMP provides substantially the same experience on Linux and Windows. So do Python and ca65, except that Python for Windows has to work around certain Win32 API gaps.