It actually comes with 5 different themes that affect the panel's appearance and provides an interface to download lots more. The size of the panel is easy to change. If you don't like the task icons, you can download a new icon theme. Sounds like it didn't work the way you expected and you got frustrated.

I will grant that the Widget format of KDE/Plasma over Kicker is an adjustment, but it is hardly a deal breaker. It's just change and change meets resistance but it very often triumphs.

I have an older Slackware install that started as 14.0 32 bit and stayed that way for years, even well after 14.2 became available. It is just easier than dealing with Pulseaudio and Multilib, both aspects very important to me because there is extremely little I do that benefits from 64bit, I rely on Steam and WINE a lot for gaming, and ALSA for DAW work. I am also very fond of v3 KDE Kpackage and the original KRun.

I learned to place KDE3 and older QT libraries in "/opt" and have had KPackage all along but I've had to deal with the change from Konqueror as File Manager to Dolphin and the simplicity of Krun to the much wider, deeper ability but with more steps and inconvenience of Krunner.

So I installed Trinity on that old Slackware and it's blindingly fast and simple to configure and use so I upgraded to 14.2, keeping Trinity, and I discovered very quickly that I preferred Dolphin, that Kpackage still worked, that even trial and error worked with Widgets, and Krunner is still very good. The result is I almost never boot that old system. Any losses are minor and the gains are very substantial.

It most certainly didn't drive me back to Xfce as the initial move to KDE4 did for well over a year or two. There was way too much in Xfce that lacked stability and features I rely on. The single most important feature of Xfce to me is that it runs most KDE stuff. Without that I'd never use it.

I have zero problem with folks that prefer Xfce but that's almost entirely personal preference and has no objective basis that applies to everybody. Both KDE/Plasma and Xfce are valid DEs. To try to claim otherwise is an exercise in futility. We tend to like what we grow accustomed to.

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This is not a KDE5/Plasma issue. Must be something to do with a recent kernel upgrade. Same problem in xfce thunar.


Maybe 5.4.60 will fix this.

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Among other things, kde5 "now warns you when your hard disk or SSD is about to die, and lets you monitor its health."

Here is the complete list of the most recent new features, bug fixes and performance improvements,

https://pointieststick.com/2020/08/2...-improvements/

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I have noticed something weird, but I think this is more of a Virtualbox glitch perhaps? All I know is in KDE5 (using Alien's live image) , or even something like Kubuntu; when I change resolutions and try to apply, the screen then reverts back to the lower default resolution for no reason. It happens full screen or windowed in Virtualbox.

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The latest roundup of kde5 changes,
The complete story can be found here, https://pointieststick.com/2020/09/1...hing-happened/

In case someone did not see this:

https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/kde...#comment-37892

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Saw that a couple of days ago and noticed it was dated, September 10, 2020.
Can't say I was surprised.

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Thanks! I don't blame him.

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Change the display driver to VBoxSVGA. Virtualbox complains, but it works.

Don

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Yep that did it, VBOXSVGA with 3D disabled and I can switch to 1920x1200 and it sticks. Still confirms that it has to be something with KDE under a VM, as any other DE/WM I do not have such an issue. When this will be fixed who knows, as I do not recall seeing any sort of bug report either on KDE or Virtualbox for this; but again your suggestion worked.

Yeah, me neither. No one should, really. If anything I'm grateful for the stellar contribution made by ktown.

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This last week's "New Features, Bugfixes and Performance improvements" for KDE5,

https://pointieststick.com/2020/09/2...p-plasma-5-20/

Akonadi and KDE-Pim still sucks. This time I installed Devuan over Kubuntu in a VM, and went in and stripped out all of Akonadi and it's deps, along with KDE-Pim and its deps - and now htop reports 469M of mem usage. I like that, and - no complaints from KDE either about akonadi and kde-pim not being there.

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Like to say. After Pat updated Mon Sep 28 18:29:52 UTC 2020 or after Tue Sep 29 18:11:08 UTC 2020
all browser Alien Bob's Chromium Pat's Firefox Seamonkey Or my Opera or my Google Chromium are unable to upload into Atlassian cloud.
This is needed for jira and for uploading built binaries in to download pages.
Triggering a security feature and blocking you with a captcha that never shows.
This doesn't seem to be a problem with 14.2 or 14.2+ just 14.2+ kde5 plasma.
Just a heads up.

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