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KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS Desktop Officially Released (softpedia.com)
prisoninmate writes from a report via Softpedia: KDE will celebrate 20 years of activity on October 14, 2016, and they've just released the first LTS (Long Term Support) version of the KDE Plasma desktop environment. Prominent new features of KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS include support for desktop widgets, a new system-wide search functionality that promises to let users easily search their KDE desktops for everything they want, including apps, music, videos, files, folders, etc., a new tool to get hot new stuff for your KDE Plasma desktop, such as wallpapers, widgets, desktop effects, or window styles, and infinite customization possibilities. Moreover, KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS comes with a unified look for the default Breeze theme so that, no matter what type of application you're using (Qt4, GTK2, GTK3, or Qt5), it will look the same, mobile phone notifications, along with the ability to use your smartphone as a PC remote, transfer files or mute music during calls, all with the new KDE Connect plasmoid. There's also Right-to-Left (RTL) language support, simplified global shortcuts, improvements to many applets, and much better Wayland support. KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS will receive nine point releases until 2018. "Today KDE releases its first Long Term Support edition of its flagship desktop software, Plasma," reads the announcement. "This marks the point where the developers and designers are happy to recommend Plasma for the widest possible audience be they enterprise or non-techy home users. If you tried a KDE desktop previously and have moved away, now is the time to re-assess, Plasma is simple by default, powerful when needed."
If KDE was any good it would depend on systemd.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Make KDE great again!
Seriously though. KDE is messed up now. Where are all the keyboard shortcuts? They broke so much trying to make it all touch friendly. Grr.
I've been out of the Linux loop for a long time, and I wanted to know if the current KDE releases have achieved parity with KDE2 with regard to printing capabilities. Honestly just want to know, I haven't used Linux since KDE 4.1 or so.
Or does the whole thing still crash horrendously when you turn off a display port monitor?
It's come a long way, but I'm still a TWM guy at heart ;)
KDE 1 up to and including 1.2 were good but KDE has sucked balls since ever after.
The main goal of KDE was to be a solid WIndows 95 clone. The first time I used it was version 0.6.something. I may have read about it on Chips and Dips. It was awful and development initially stalled. Today it is my favourite IDE. Although I frequently turn to OpenBox and and awesome for brain decompression.
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"KDE will celebrate 20 years of activity on October 14, 2016, and they've " nothing decent to show for it.
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
i just want my cashew back
I loved KDE back in the 3.x days. I loved it until I "upgraded" to 4.x when it corrupted my email and then decided to continuously index everything, bringing my system to its knees at random times.
> a new system-wide search functionality that promises to let users easily
> search their KDE desktops for everything they want, including apps,
> music, videos, files, folders, etc.
I can't remember *ever* searching my desktop for anything. I never asked for this and never will. Thanks for implementing something that is so expensive and useless. I don't think I'll ever go back to KDE.
Die nepomuk, baloo, and akonadi!
If he wrote programs for KDE they would be Krap and not Crap.
For me, desktop environment should just be in the background, waiting to do what you tell it do, fast, efficiently and using as few resources as possible. KDE, Gnome and Unity have decided to take the opposite approach - they are the stars of the show, they may, or may not, allow you to do what you want to do, they are not particularly fast or responsive, and they consume more system resources than just about any other application. Since it is those desktops what the Linux community is pushing to compete against Windows and Mac, I am only too glad that they are not making any significant headway in that undertaking.
who still loves KDE and thinks this is great news?
"Recursive bipartite matching"- try it!
Have they restored the KDE4 feature where you can have different backgrounds for your different virtual desktops? I'm still on KDE 4 just because that functionality is still not implemented in Plasma 5.
I haven't used KDE in a couple of years, but the summary caught me off guard
"Prominent new features of KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS include support for desktop widgets, a new system-wide search functionality that promises to let users easily search their KDE desktops for everything they want, including apps, music, videos, files, folders, etc., a new tool to get hot new stuff for your KDE Plasma desktop, such as wallpapers, widgets, desktop effects, or window styles, and infinite customization possibilities "
I seem to remember using all of those features in KDE 4.12, way back in 2013. Am I going crazy here?
First thing I have to do after installing KDE is kill the baloo semantic desktop search indexer to stop it from using 100% of the CPU.
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I don't know... have you seen all the extra gizmos and gadgets littering the desktop elements? That control-panel that slides out from each window, allowing you to arbitrarily rotate the window in the screen plane? Who the hell needs that?
Having discovered how great i3 is, I will never use another DE again.