| Re: I don not like some of the changes
May 15 2016 on poll How do you like Plasma 5? |
Now - about one year later - I am using Plasma 5.5 on my main system. It's ok - but still far away from KDE 4 - for me it is still in its puberty, maybe at the state of KDE 4.2 (concerning the desktops), and 4.3 (that was the point where I switched and thought at least now one can work with the system). There are so many things still missing and not working as they did in KDE4.
Dolphin still doesn't show all required information when copying files. The systray has a kind of life on its own presenting me icons I don't want and not the icons I want to see. It was a pain in Plasma 5.4 but with the current 5.5 it happens less often, now most of the time when I log in it looks like I want it to look. And I can now have "drawers" in the panel - finally again - (quicklaunch widget with popup) but they are kind of wide - and buggy and show too big icons which overlap. When I play a game which changes the desktop resolution my widget layout gets scrambled. I cannot see the date in a format I like (but an appropriate replacement for the clock is available, so it IS possible). Kjots is still missing, I cannot read any of my notes. There is a lot more that was working/working better in KDE 4.
And Plasma 5 alas gives the user a lot less control over the look & feel, e.g. some icon sizes are chosen *by the system* depending on the desktop resolution - pure horror for me - I am the user, I (want to) have control (I now that's so Tron - but nonetheless ;) ).
But i can't help, I am missing my different desktops a LOT! I can live with one wallpaper for all desktops but it still is a pain for me to have the same widgets and launchers on all desktops. For me it feels crippled like Windows with its one desktop.
This is no rant - beware - nonetheless I am quite content with the desktop. I see that it is evolving - and I acknowledge the work of the devs.
Nonetheless the devs do a good job, I guess it is quite difficult to adjust to a new Qt version and there ARE things that have become better, i.e. the handling of the activities /which I still don't want to use/ and the dragging of the widgets (not so relevant for me anymore as I have to abstain from most of them now - no space anymore on that "one" desktop. And some of the features I hate (or at least are not that happy with) others will love.
Now I am desperately waiting for my distribution to give me 5.6 where some of the missing features/bugs are added/fixed. And maybe with 5.8 Plasma 5 will become mature. Maybe with 5.12 it will be perfect - and then the devs will be turning everything upside down again I guess... that obviously is the circle of KDE-life.... |
|  | | good idea for saving space
May 15 2016 on content Win7 Show Desktop |
I hate that tiny space on Windows but I admit it is a good idea to make a similar widget for Plasma because of choice. Assumingly there are people out there who neither want the pager nor the standard minimize all widget nor the mixer in the panel to save space. |
| | | why not as theme?
May 1 2016 on content Breeze Tumbleweed Folder Icons |
Why so complicated? Give it an index.theme, inherit breeze (one row in index.theme) and here we go, own theme with all the additional breeze icons without adding them - and no need to replace anything. |
| | | Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: week number?
Apr 25 2016 on content Event Calendar |
It's installed and it's ovbiously the new version as there are some more options. What does not work: I cannot get a meteogram, Line 2 is not shown and the week numbers don't appear :(. |
| | | Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: week number?
Apr 25 2016 on content Event Calendar |
Netrunner/Kubuntu here. I've now uninstalled the widget via the widget manager, tried to reinstall via newstuff, but altough it tells me it's installed the widget doesn't appear in widget manager anymore. I'll try direct install from this site. |
| | | Re: Re: Re: Re: week number?
Apr 25 2016 on content Event Calendar |
Wow :). Strange, I have installed the new version yesterday via newstuff... At least I assume that newstuff did what I told it to do, got no error message... One alas cannot see which plasmoid version is installed... |
| | | Re: Re: week number?
Apr 24 2016 on content Event Calendar |
And after I've played with the week setting today (i.e. ticked it, saved) the bottom of the popup is lost and I cannot get it back even if I untick the week option...
http://250kb.de/nK7ugAi |
| | | Re: Re: week number?
Apr 24 2016 on content Event Calendar |
A small column alongside the calendar block, I've created a mockup: http://250kb.de/X7eIWBu
I'd also would greatly appreciate to have the option to add a second line to the clock in the tray, for the day or date. In just one row the text gets too wide when day and date are added (on a very small panel it might be ok in one row). Maybe it is possible to use the full height of the panel if only row one has text but if a second line is filled by the user the ratio of the two lines could be 2/3 height for line 1 and 1/3 for line 2?
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