As i’m looking forward to next release with plasma 5… and they say it’s fast.
Tumbleweed (Snapshot20150508-Media) @ Plasma 5 is not so stable as i thought it would be today.
nice work from the team but still al lot of work for running it stable @ 1x 1920x1080 + 1x 3840x2160 (GeForce GTX 660)
http://users.telenet.be/photo-memories/img/tumbleweed-plasma5.png
yeah this is why I’m not keen on plasma 5 it has much to do before it proves itself I mean is it better then kde4 when first came out? Yes but its still not exactly something I would call ready for production systems like openSUSE
Realistically I don’t think it will be better on release but the same was with kde4. kde3 was much better but it’s unavoidable with new software. We users need to test it so that the devs can fix bugs and tune it to work as we want 
I can’t imagine myself going back to kde3 now. Too many features I use would be lost. I’m sure it will be the same with plasma 5.
On Tue, 19 May 2015 09:26:01 GMT
glistwan <glistwan@no-mx.forums.microfocus.com> wrote:
>
> MadmanRB;2709340 Wrote:
> > yeah this is why I’m not keen on plasma 5 it has much to do before
> > it proves itself I mean is it better then kde4 when first came out?
> > Yes but its still not exactly something I would call ready for
> > production systems like openSUSE
> Realistically I don’t think it will be better on release but the same
> was with kde4. kde3 was much better but it’s unavoidable with new
> software. We users need to test it so that the devs can fix bugs and
> tune it to work as we want 
>
For me, it’s still unusable due to the problem with shoving all windows
and apps into desktop-1 on logon. It seems to be next to impossible to
get developers to accept that this is a serious problem, probably
because none of them use the feature; do they mean they only use one desktop?
From what I have seen of P5 when this bug was temporarily fixed, I
quite liked it. It seemed faster than KDE4 and perhaps less memory
although those can be movable feasts depending on whether there’s a
following wind or not.
The Kmenu is a disaster with masses of apps making it next to
impossible to find what I want. I’m reduced to using “search”
almost every time I want to launch something not in my “favourites”.
However, if that’s not changed for something sensible soon, I can
always spend a while with the menu editor sorting out the mess.
In my view, P5.3 is worse than KDE4.3 but the previous releases of
KDE4 were far worse. P5.3 problems are ones that merely make the system
awkward to use whereas KDE4 contained a bug in Konqueror that caused
me to lose files and folders, some permanently.
As to testing P5, I found long, long ago that the best way to find bugs
in software is to use it in earnest. Trying it out on test machines
will find some of the more obvious problems but you’ll find more when
you use it operationally. Unfortunately, with the desktop problem I
mentioned above, I still don’t see that as an option for me at the
moment.
–
Graham Davis [Retired Fortran programmer - now a mere computer user]
openSUSE 13.2(64-bit); KDE 4.14.6; Kernel: 3.16.7;
Processor: AMD Phenom II X2 550; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using
nouveau driver); Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
Regarding the multiple desktops maybe it already works well with Wayland. (just guessing here) Did you try this display server or just with X ?
AFAIK, Plasma (or kwin) 5.3 doesn’t (fully) support Wayland yet.
And this is an issue with the (non-existing or incompletely ported) session management in Plasma 5, not Xorg.
Thanks a lot for the clarification You’re like a living encyclopaedia always a pleasure to read you’re posts. You can learn so much from them.