On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:51:28AM +0800, konsolebox wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > > It looks as if in the near future I am going to have to install KDE 5 , > > if I want to go on using my regular daily apps Konsole Gwenview Okular ; > > yes, I know I can limit exposure to their requirements > > & don't need to install the whole desktop system. > > > > Before I plunge into that, is anyone else using KDE 5 every day ? > > What are people's experiences with it ? > > I just installed KDE 5 in order to try how one application works on > it, and also due to my curiosity. The applications that depend on it: > konsole and dolphin, doesn't work well if KDE5 is not itself the one > that's running. In dolphin, some icons don't show. konsole also > doesn't show some icons when it uses them as its own icon.
After 4.14 packages left portage, I did bite the bullet (after rsyncing / to an external HDD). I’m not very fond of the new minimalist design language everyone seems to adopt, so I kept oxygen icons. I had to uninstall some blockers by hand (bye bye knemo, crystal and qtcurve[windeco]. :'-( ). At first I wanted to write a rant mail about lots of bugs after I made the world upgrade, but then I noticed that I only upgraded what was there, and did not install plasma-meta to pull in the new stuff. Once that was done, things looked a lot better. No hangups so far, not even a proper crash. I only disabled file indexing from the start because baloo was hogging my spinning drive. I might even try and find out what of the old akonadi indexing database I could delete and free up oogles of megabytes. I imagine that’s probably less hassle than start with a clean user directory and add all my PIM stuff back (several accounts for mail, contacts and calendar with all their detailed settings). What I do like: - the circular system monitor - actually less waste of space in the panel in comparison to Oxygen due to smaller margins around taskbar items and the pager widget What I miss: - no more eyes for the panel - no way of navigating the classical Kmenu via shortcut keys due to the always-on search field. What is the purpose of krunner then. - no good network monitor (yet?). The KDE-own has no options at all, I can't set anything (things like width, animation step size or hiding the interface name, which overlaps with the graph label). > Firefox seems to have been affected by it as well. It doesn't show the > scroll bar button, and some widget borders looked a little different. That's GTK3. I installed clearlooks-phenix to get back a more traditional look and also disabled their stupid non-standard default that -- when you left-click a scrollbar -- it scrolls directly to that position. After years of strong dislike of anything GTK due to ugliness in the mid-2000s, I came to terms with it a few years back, I even like XFCE on low-power devices. But GTK3 gets me all going again. Whenever I save a file from within Firefox, I am appalled by the file dialog and its non-existing usability. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any social network. Latin: the late revenge of the Romans to all Germans.
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