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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Originally Posted by bassmadrigal
I think it would be a good idea to update Slackware to the 14.2 stable release
It has occurred to me that after more than 2-1/2 years and numerous changes, updates, deletions and additions, the next release is more than an incremental upgrade and, perhaps, the version number should jump to 15 or higher.
Just a thought.
Yeah, well, that is an article about a different OS with perhaps a different implementation of Plasma 5? I use Plasma 5 on this laptop all the time, and it is neither unstable, nor bloated, nor resource-hungry. The matter of "ugly" is of course a subjective view.
I do not find Plasma 5 "ugly". It looks better than KDE 4, just as KDE 4 looked better than KDE 3. That is my subjective opinion of course... feel free to go back to XFCE.
I find Plasma5 different, not better or worse. It's just different.
I've used it, and it's okay, just not my bottle of beer to drink. The layouts of Kate/Kwrite are a bit awkward, but after you get used to it, it's no different than someone who's not picky switching from Windows 7 to Windows 8 by fair comparison.
Konqueror was better without dolphinpart and webkit, like it was in kde3.
Kwin compositor never worked properly with my nvidia chips, accelerator always stutters and hogs the CPU, where standard Compiz acceleration is perfectly fluid.
Plasma being more or less modular is a good thing, but doesn't matter much when kde base has hundreds of dependencies and to compile one module you must have them all.
For example Kate, Konsole, KDM, these things I like to use, but can't compile without whole bundle of other things which I don't want to host.
I'd actually prefer a qt desktop toolkit over gtk, but if it's going to be governed by Apple and Adobe like it is right now, I'll just forget about the whole thing.
Sorry for offtopic, not requesting anything, just writing feedback.
Konqueror was better without dolphinpart and webkit, like it was in kde3.
Kwin compositor never worked properly with my nvidia chips, accelerator always stutters and hogs the CPU, where standard Compiz acceleration is perfectly fluid.
Plasma being more or less modular is a good thing, but doesn't matter much when kde base has hundreds of dependencies and to compile one module you must have them all.
For example Kate, Konsole, KDM, these things I like to use, but can't compile without whole bundle of other things which I don't want to host.
I'd actually prefer a qt desktop toolkit over gtk, but if it's going to be governed by Apple and Adobe like it is right now, I'll just forget about the whole thing.
Sorry for offtopic, not requesting anything, just writing feedback.
I use konqueror, it's a part of 'kde-baseapps' compiled without kde4, and it work fine here, the Eric, package 'kde-baseapps' ,is compiled with a part of kde4, (and
I use konqueror, it's a part of 'kde-baseapps' compiled without kde4, and it work fine here, the Eric, package 'kde-baseapps' ,is compiled with a part of kde4, (and
(i use also 'kget' recompiled without kde4).
Maybe so, but I still think it was better when it was just a file manager, with its own file management engine. Seems like it has become a frontend for dolphin, webkit and khtml instead, and that is why I haven't used it for years.
As for the other programs, there is a complicated web of dependencies, asking kde guys: "I just want Kate and Konsole..." will get you a framework and an IDE, they will get upset if you say you don't want these but would rather have a program that depends only on QT, like for example qmmp which only needs QT and ffmpeg to build.
This is why I think xfce4 beats kde, programs just build independently of one another and don't require you install a platform upon which you can build "apps". It's redundant.
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that after more than 2-1/2 years and numerous changes, updates, deletions and additions, the next release is more than an incremental upgrade and, perhaps, the version number should jump to 15 or higher.
That is when I will move back to Xfce. 
