LXer: KDE's Plasma 5.4: The most advanced and beautiful Linux desktop

LXer · 08-26-2015, 04:31 PM

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The KDE community just released Plasma 5.4, a major update to their desktop environment and it continues to shows the prowess of this ‘leaderless’ community.

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Timothy Miller · 08-26-2015, 04:43 PM

Advanced? You can't even set multiple wallpapers for different virtual desktops, something that KDE2 supported (probably 1, but I don't remember that far back)...it's nowhere near advanced.

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Trust me, you wont regret it.

While I continue running KDE (for now because I can't find something yet to replace it that's as easy to configure with gui tools (yes, I'm really that lazy)), this author has forever lost my trust for thinking that KDE5 has suddenly become usable with 5.4

abstradelic · 08-26-2015, 07:51 PM

really with a great Graphic development Toolkit with the computation's axis.

goumba · 08-26-2015, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Timothy Miller

Advanced? You can't even set multiple wallpapers for different virtual desktops, something that KDE2 supported (probably 1, but I don't remember that far back)...it's nowhere near advanced.

While I continue running KDE (for now because I can't find something yet to replace it that's as easy to configure with gui tools (yes, I'm really that lazy)), this author has forever lost my trust for thinking that KDE5 has suddenly become usable with 5.4

I'm not a big fan of KDE, never was, bigger on GNOME. That said, it took well into the GNOME 3.x series for it to become truly usable, so KDE 5 still has some minor versions to go yet to catch up.