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KDE Plasma 5.5 Has Matured Past the Point of Plasma 4 (phoronix.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the time-to-direct-the-complain-cannon-at-something-else dept.

An anonymous reader writes: KDE's Plasma 5 desktop received a lot of early heat for being unstable, missing functionality compared to the older Plasma 4, and other changes that irritated Linux desktop users. Fortunately, with the recent release of Plasma 5.5, they have hit a stage where there's fairly wide agreement that Plasma 5 has now matured past the point of Plasma 4. Ken Vermette looked meticulously at the KDE stack for 2016, including how it's working on Wayland, the setup, widgets, various new features, and more.

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  1. Of course ... by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They've added 1.5 to the version, of course it has matured.

    I remember over the years companies taking v1.1 and renaming it v 8.1 or something equally stupid ... because clearly lying about the major version number means the product has matured.

    Version numbers are cheap, and in the hands of marketing they can say anything you want them to. ;-)

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  2. Re:Yeah... by gstoddart · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow, that is a monumentally stupid bug. I mean, really YYYY-MM-DD is the only thing which results in any sensible lexical ordering of dates, and remove the most ambiguity.

    This tells me shiny is taking precedence over useful.

    That's insane.

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