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KDE Releases Plasma 5.1
jrepin notes the release of KDE Plasma 5.1. Quoting the release announcement:
KDE Plasma 5.1 sports a wide variety of improvements, leading to greater stability, better performance and new and improved features. Thanks to the feedback of the community, KDE developers were able to package a large number of fixes and enhancements into this release, among which more complete and higher quality artwork following the new-in-5.0 Breeze style, re-addition of popular features such as the Icon Tasks taskswitcher and improved stability and performance.
Those traveling regularly will enjoy better support for time zones in the panel's clock, while those staying at home a revamped clipboard manager, allowing you to easily get at your past clipboard's content. The Breeze widget style is now also available for Qt4-based applications, leading to greater consistency across applications. The work to support Wayland as display server for Plasma is still ongoing, with improved, but not complete support in 5.1. Changes throughout many default components improve accessibility for visually impaired users by adding support for screenreaders and improved keyboard navigation. Aside from the visual improvements and the work on features, the focus of this release lies also on stability and performance improvements, with over 180 bugs resolved since 5.0 in the shell alone."
Those traveling regularly will enjoy better support for time zones in the panel's clock, while those staying at home a revamped clipboard manager, allowing you to easily get at your past clipboard's content. The Breeze widget style is now also available for Qt4-based applications, leading to greater consistency across applications. The work to support Wayland as display server for Plasma is still ongoing, with improved, but not complete support in 5.1. Changes throughout many default components improve accessibility for visually impaired users by adding support for screenreaders and improved keyboard navigation. Aside from the visual improvements and the work on features, the focus of this release lies also on stability and performance improvements, with over 180 bugs resolved since 5.0 in the shell alone."
I'm just curious. I prefer KDE to Gnome, Windows to OSX, and coffee to tea.
If you prefer Gnome to KDE, why?
https://www.kde.org/announceme...
Is that PHP code in the lower right Clipboard thing supposed to be there?
Are the KDE/Gnome wars winding down yet? It seems like both have made a lot of progress in recent years, to the point where both are pretty solid and flexible. Is there really a "difference" anymore for the average user?
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someone explain to me why each newer version is progressively slower on the same hardware as time goes by? If we were to believe the continuous performance improvements, this thing would hit 120 fps on a 286 by now.
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KDE3 was my favorite DE. KDE4 got me to drop KDE altogether. I know there was an attempt to fork 3, but it seems to have died. It's too bad.
The Linux desktop wars mattered when Linux was the future of the desktop.
Now that the desktop has a much smaller future, and Linux clearly doesn't play much of a role even in this drastically reduced future, it's just that KDE and GNOME really don't matter much.
Desktop Linux is a niche product, and it behaves like one—adoption is vendor-driven, and clients use whatever the vendor supplies.
For individual Linux users, things haven't moved in half a decade or more. Linux is still a mostly complete operating system with mostly working desktops. None of it is very polished (polish, as always, is just a couple years off in the future). Significant time and customization are required to make any stock distro+DE work well, things are generally cluttered, kludgy, and opaque, and for the hobbyist that fits the profile—the sort of person that will actually put up with and use this kind of computing environment—one or the other (KDE or GNOME) is already a clear favorite and this isn't likely to change.
Of course there is also the developer group, probably Linux's largest cohort of "serious" users on the desktop, but they just plain don't care much about which DE is installed. They're much more concerned with toolchains and versions of environment components.
So the KDE vs. GNOME thing is just plain...not that big a deal any longer, for most anyone.
The only possibly interesting development in a very long time is Elementary OS, which appears to have adopted a different philosophy from the one traditionally associated with Linux development/packaging groups. But whether this will ultimately translate into an important operating system and user experience, with its brand that supersedes the branding of the desktop environment itself, remains to be seen.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
KDE3.
The rest is a suicide. Plasma clocks, if you minimize all your windows. FUBAR.
Seriously though...visuals are nice...but have they simplified their UI?
I was running on KDE for a while and trying to customize a keyboard shortcut would lead you through a maze of separate windows, with additional dropdowns within each of them, etc. Compared to the simplicity of setting up a customized keyboard shortcut in XFCE, it was like night and day.
I hope they not only pay attention to eye candy but also make the configuration a bit simpler. It's got far too many bells and whistles in some areas.
Since 4.x multiple X screens have numerous bugs which make KDE insecure; there's no indication the developers are even interested in multi-screen configurations from the responses I've had when reporting bugs or proposing patches.
For example, the greeter/screensaver is always drawn on X screen 0 leaving X screens 1+ on view. When 3D acceleration is enabled kwin doesn't use it for all X screens, instead seeming to randomly decide which X screens to use it with regardless of the global or per-screen settings. Screens other than 0 use the X server "X" pointer rather than that defined in the theme.
And still use it, the first few versions of 4 were rough but since 4.4 or so it has been rock solid.
My biggest gripe is that I still have no clue what activities are for and why I should care. Apparently, the KDE folks don't have a clue because they have yet to put out a paper on what it is exactly.
Good thing it is not required.
Oh yeah, Amarok sucks dick. The Amarok "devs" said it was impossible to translate the awesome Amarok for KDE 3 to KDE 4 because of different libs. The folks working on Clementine proved them wrong and showed how incompetent the Amarok "devs" are.
The UI for Amarok is butt-ugly and barely usable, but what killed it for me is, I forget the version this happened, when it started up it used over 500 MB of RAM and was doing nothing but waiting for me to kill it or push play. Fuck Amarok and its incompetent "devs". The KDE project needs to eject that app out from under the KDE umbrella and tell the "devs" to get fucked and more to the gnome, systemd, or windows teams. They appreciate incompetence.