On 17/09/2016 21:17, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 09/17/2016 12:08 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 17/09/2016 17:16, Robin Atwood wrote: >>> On Saturday 17 September 2016, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>>> What a peculiar odd thing to say. You might want to revisit your word >>> >>>> choice there. >>> >>> >>> >>> Perhaps you're right. Unfortunately I don't have the time currently to >>> fight with ebuilds so I will declare my system, in IBM's immortal >>> expression, "functionally stabilised"! It does everything I need it to >>> so updates are not really necessary. I looked into the KDE5 upgrade >>> recently and what I read did not inspire me with confidence. >> >> >> KDE5 works well enough, I've been using it here for months. There are >> recurring reports of icons going missing and other uber-annoying >> cosmetic issues, but I find the software quite functional. > > I like to actually *use* my computer though, not fight the DE. When I > tried it months ago, plasma would crash every 10 seconds on its own.
Honestly, that sounds like you're projecting experiences of long ago onto the present. I haven't had a plasma crash in MONTHS, which falsifies everything you say below.... > > KDE5 won't be stable until another year at the minimum. After installing > it and having the crashing (and other issues, but the main one was the > constant crashing) I had no desire to put up with a broken DE for years > like my experience with KDE4. Hell, with KDE4 it took them two years to > put back basic functionality like a fully-functional systemsettings. > >> >> One thing KDE5 isn't though, is KDE4++ :-) >> >> If KDE4 is really what you want, then you best stick with it. >> > > It sure isn't easy though. I've stopped updating my computer and I > probably won't try KDE5 until middle next year. Hopefully by then it'll > actually be *usable*. It would have been nice if they snapshotted kde4 > 7-8 months ago and put the entirety in kde-sunset before messing with > ebuilds and creating cross-version dependencies. > > Dan > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
