Hi,
Just to try it, I tested Plasma 5 on my computer. At this stage, it is still called Plasma 5, instead of KDE 5 because the software around the desktop is not all ready for Qt5.
Also, I provided some screenshots showing Trinity apps being run on Plasma 5. They have to be launched manually from Konsole, but they run run very well and they are even well integrated, when QTCurve widget style is used.
IMHO, Plasma 5 is much more agreeable and pleasant to use than it was in KDE4. Yes, it is much slower than Trinity, but it features less nonsense than KDE4. It has not crashed on me for the ''small'' time I tried it. The new K menu is a kind of hybrid between what is the Kicker and the Kickoff menu in Trinity. From what I can see, it will make forget the KDE4 series pretty soon, when it will be ready, but Trinity performance and useability is still unbeatable :)
Please be reminded that I only posted these screenshot for curiosity and nobody has to look at it. If you want to comment, please be open-minded.
-Alexandre
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Hi,
Just to try it, I tested Plasma 5 on my computer. At this stage, it is still called Plasma 5, instead of KDE 5 because the software around the desktop is not all ready for Qt5.
Also, I provided some screenshots showing Trinity apps being run on Plasma 5. They have to be launched manually from Konsole, but they run run very well and they are even well integrated, when QTCurve widget style is used.
IMHO, Plasma 5 is much more agreeable and pleasant to use than it was in KDE4. Yes, it is much slower than Trinity, but it features less nonsense than KDE4. It has not crashed on me for the ''small'' time I tried it. The new K menu is a kind of hybrid between what is the Kicker and the Kickoff menu in Trinity. From what I can see, it will make forget the KDE4 series pretty soon, when it will be ready, but Trinity performance and useability is still unbeatable :)
Please be reminded that I only posted these screenshot for curiosity and nobody has to look at it. If you want to comment, please be open-minded.
-Alexandre
My only comment, and I keep an open mind in almost all cases, is that KDE appears to be continuing its tradition of copying the look and feel of the latest version of Windows. In these screenshots I can definitely see Windows 8's influence in the minimalist styling of their widgets. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as long as they don't make the mistake of copying Windows 8's limitations as well (sometimes referred to as "Window 8" here in reference to only having one window visible at any given time in Metro.)
I am glad to see why are undoing some of the KDE4 nonsense. I look forward to testing the finished P5 on a LiveCD.
Tim
I've no idea why there's a trend of making UI components too big, like in touchscreen-based operating systems. OK, resolutions are growing, icons should be bigger, but if they look too big on 2048x1536 screen something is wrong. In Libre/OpenOffice there's the same thing, but fortunately there's ui scaling option.
Alexandre ac586133@hotmail.com napisał(a):
Hi,
Just to try it, I tested Plasma 5 on my computer. At this stage, it is still called Plasma 5, instead of KDE 5 because the software around the desktop is not all ready for Qt5.
Also, I provided some screenshots showing Trinity apps being run on Plasma 5. They have to be launched manually from Konsole, but they run run very well and they are even well integrated, when QTCurve widget style is used.
IMHO, Plasma 5 is much more agreeable and pleasant to use than it was in KDE4. Yes, it is much slower than Trinity, but it features less nonsense than KDE4. It has not crashed on me for the ''small'' time I tried it. The new K menu is a kind of hybrid between what is the Kicker and the Kickoff menu in Trinity. From what I can see, it will make forget the KDE4 series pretty soon, when it will be ready, but Trinity performance and useability is still unbeatable :)
Please be reminded that I only posted these screenshot for curiosity and nobody has to look at it. If you want to comment, please be open-minded.
-Alexandre
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:43:00 -0400 Alexandre ac586133@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Just to try it, I tested Plasma 5 on my computer. At this stage, it is still called Plasma 5, instead of KDE 5 because the software around the desktop is not all ready for Qt5.
Also, I provided some screenshots showing Trinity apps being run on Plasma 5. They have to be launched manually from Konsole, but they run run very well and they are even well integrated, when QTCurve widget style is used.
IMHO, Plasma 5 is much more agreeable and pleasant to use than it was in KDE4. Yes, it is much slower than Trinity, but it features less nonsense than KDE4. It has not crashed on me for the ''small'' time I tried it. The new K menu is a kind of hybrid between what is the Kicker and the Kickoff menu in Trinity. From what I can see, it will make forget the KDE4 series pretty soon, when it will be ready, but Trinity performance and useability is still unbeatable :)
Please be reminded that I only posted these screenshot for curiosity and nobody has to look at it. If you want to comment, please be open-minded.
-Alexandre
Blech...people actually use 'Dolphin' when 'Krusader' is available?
Nice review though of plasma 5.
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On Tuesday 26 August 2014 02:43:00 Alexandre wrote:
Please be reminded that I only posted these screenshot for curiosity and nobody has to look at it. If you want to comment, please be open-minded.
Thanks, Alexandre. They don't look bad. But I can't tell how much you have adapted them to their present comparatively legible state, nor how much they would move and wobble if they were not screen-shots. I shall look at KDE5, as I did at KDE4. I hope I like it better. Hope springs eternal. ;-)
But TDE rules!
Lisi
From: lisi.reisz@gmail.com Thanks, Alexandre. They don't look bad. But I can't tell how much you have adapted them to their present comparatively legible state, nor how much they would move and wobble if they were not screen-shots. I shall look at KDE5, as I did at KDE4. I hope I like it better. Hope springs eternal. ;-)
But TDE rules!
Yes!
Lisi
You all raised good questions about it. From what you can see in the screenshots, native Plasma 5 apps and the desktop generally has the default setting, and nothing tweaked at all. For TDE apps, I use QtCurve widget style, but when it ran on Plasma 5, looks like Plasma 5 provided its own QTCurve settings, instead of using my own one. The is very little desktop effects, just fade-in and fade-out when programs are started and closed. Also, a little bit of transparencies here and there.
Tim, I have never been able to say who copy each other between KDE and Win. But the first time I saw Win7, I knew for sure that they have copied the larger, transparent panel at the bottom of the screen from KDE. I guess that it is part of the industry... If you want to try it, the process to install it on Ubuntu 14.04 is almost the same as for installing TDE:
Packages for Kubuntu 14.04 LTS For 14.04, on Kubuntu, Project Neon is available as PPAs which offers frequently updated development snapshots of KDE Frameworks. Packages will be installed to /opt/project-neon5 and will co-install with your normal environment.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:neon/kf5 sudo apt update sudo apt install project-neon5-session project-neon5-utils project-neon5-konsoleThank you! -Alexandre
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