Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.

5 of 111 comments (clear)

  1. KDE 3.5 by klapek · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Has is matured past the point of KDE 3.5?

    1. Re:KDE 3.5 by malditaenvidia · · Score: 1, Interesting

      No, but if it's any consolation, it has matured past the point of Gnome 3.18

  2. Re:I'll have to give it another look.... by monkeyhybrid · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd agree that some of the community doesn't think about stuff like that, but on the whole, KDE is the least frustrating desktop environment I've ever used. And I've probably used more than most.

    I'm not saying it's not without its faults, but KDE actually has plenty of very thoughtful touches, sane defaults and UI polish. OS X is generally pretty good and then there is Windows, 'nuff said.

    All just my personal opinion of course. When it comes to things like GUIs, different people will always favour different ways of doing things.

  3. Re:I'll have to give it another look.... by dcooper_db9 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    IIRC this feature existed when 4 came out and it's been there since.
    1. Position and size your window as you want it in the future.
    2. Right click on the title bar
    3. More Actions:Special Window Settings
    4. Size and Position tab
    5. Check Position
    6. Change the dropdown to "Remember" (or force if you don't want it to be movable). Note that KDE recognizes the current size and position of the window. You can override these numbers if you like
    7. Do the same with Size
    8. Explore. There are a ton of refinements in these settings.
    9. If you want to adjust the window settings later they're found under Settings:Workspace:Window Management:Window Rules
    --
    I do not block ads. I do block third party scripts.
  4. You can use KDE 3D compositing with other DE's by Sadsfae · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've switched back and forth to just about every *NIX Desktop Environment since I started using Linux in 1999, loved KDE 3.x, loathed KDE 4.x until it became stable and used KDE 5.x on and off. The good thing about KDE is that the windowing and 3D effects subsystem is modular.

    I'm pretty much settled on using XFCE but I'm using KWIN KDE compositing/3D effects with XFCE for a nice compromise between a 'classic' desktop that's rock solid but with the nice themes, windowing effects and features that KWIN (KDE's compositor) brings to the table.

    --
    Have a squat over at the hobo house.