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An overly enthusiastic attempt to upgrade using Debian Unstable has temporarily left me without KDE. As disasters go, it's a small one, since I can easily restore from backup, but until I have time for repairs, I've fallen back on Linux Mint's MATE. The experience is making me aware of all that I miss in KDE.
However, like most classical desktops, MATE has only virtual workspaces to help to organize my clutter. The virtual workspaces help, but only a little. Unlike in KDE, I cannot associate an application with a particular desktop. Instead, I am left with a choice of wasting time shuffling through open windows and losing my train of thought, or else of stopping work to organize the windows, then trying to remember what I open in which virtual workspace.
As of 5.4.2 (at least Debians build), that doesn't work in KDE either. You can set it to associate a program with a certain activity, but after rebooting, it changes all those associations to "all activities", and it will show everywhere.
This is one of the big things that I've been waiting to work in KDE5, and so far, is the reason some of my desktops are still on KDE4. Activities are ok, not great, but the inability to associate programs with that activity is a killer for me.
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Similarly, System > Preferences has over two dozen menu items, arranged only alphabetically, with no headings to help organize them. Admittedly, you can use System > Control Center instead, which resembles KDE's System Setting. But the Preferences sub-menu come at the top, and those familiar with MATE and its ancestor GNOME 2 are likely to stop there without noticing the availability of the Control Center. My general impression is of a structure trying to cope with far more items than it was ever designed to handle.
I actually prefer the classic preferences > type menu of Mate or LXQT (which is my second favorite DE) to the systemsettings of KDE. But overall there's a lot of other things missing from LXQT that will prevent it from ever being as popular as many of the superior DE's. I consistently wish I could bring myself to like XFCE. Can't wait to try Cinnamon 2.8, I thought Cinnamon was rather nice when I used 2.6.
Last edited by Timothy Miller; 10-22-2015 at 03:46 PM.
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I really cannot imagine what people do with their PCs that means they need so many applications open in so many different contexts. Some time, I suppose, I ought to search YouTube for some examples as I can't actually understand what people are doing to need these things.
The only thing that springs to mind is developing server applications and running the servers at the same time, but I would have thought at virtualisation meant that was dealt with differently anyhow?
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