Kubuntu 15.04 Will Be Based On KDE5 45
jones_supa writes Kubuntu Vivid is the development name for what will be released in April next year as Kubuntu 15.04. The exciting news is that following some discussion and some wavering, the Kubuntu team will be switching to Plasma 5 by default. They claim that it has shown itself as a solid and reliable platform and it's time to show it off to the world. There are some bits which are missing from Plasma 5 which are planned to be filled in over the next six months. As another technical detail, Debian git is now used to store the packaging in a Kubuntu branch, so hopefully it will be easier to share updates.
Ugh. (Score:2)
KDE5 Plasma 5.
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WTF can I not edit... /. took out my greaterthan/lessthan symbols.
Plasma 5 and KDE5 are two different things.
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Try "<>"
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Thanks AC!
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i would like to install linux on my SNES. how do I do this? The log in will be up up down down B A B A start.
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It hardly seems right to liken people referring to the desktop as "KDE" as if they were people saying that they "boot their Microsoft". KDE stands for the K Desktop Environment, and it has referred to the software itself for the majority of it's existence.
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I've got no problem with encouraging the correct terminology, it's the fact that it implies somebody who is a bit out of date with the project's branding is a technological halfwit who doesn't understand the difference between an organisation and a software package. It's KDE themselves that mixed the two up.
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I said nothing of the sort. By all means, explain it. That's a good thing. Just don't liken them to technological halfwits while you are doing it. That's unwarranted.
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Try again. It stands for "K Desktop Environment."
Hell, Google says "KDE is a powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations." for the page summary!
Re:Ugh. (Score:4, Funny)
Plasma 5 and KDE5 are two different things.
I'm waiting for the LCD version, less chance of burn-in than w/Plasma.
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Aha! The real reason why <> has been deprecated in favour of !=
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Re:Plasma? (Score:5, Informative)
Well, KDE consists of two parts. Plasma is the desktop shell. SC (Software Compilation) are the various apps that come with KDE.
No, what used to be the "Software Compilation" in KDE4 split into three parts:
KDE Frameworks 5 - the KDE libraries on top of Qt5
KDE Plasma 5 - the shell
KDE Applications - the applications, duh
They're now on three separate release schedules from what I gather, there's no more SC like it used to be.
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KDE is the name of the community, so it's a lot more than 2 parts.
Or, if by "KDE" you mean "The software bundle once known as KDE", in the Qt 5 world it doesn't exist any more, and has been split into 3 parts:
- Frameworks 5, the modular evolution of the KDELibs
- Plasma 5, the next iteration of Plasma
- And the Applications bundle, whose first version not entirely Qt4-based will be released in december (and since not all application port to Qt5 at the same time, they decided to go for a date-based verion numb
Where have I heard this before? (Score:2, Troll)
You mean like what happened with KDE 4? Because that really turned out well.
4 Again? (Score:1)
Are we doing this again? 4 is just now getting relatively stable and complete...
Re: 4 Again? (Score:1)
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Well, I still miss being able to place launchers/applets wherever I want them on a panel or desktop without being forced into a grid or having to use spacers that never quite work right.
4 Again? (Score:5, Interesting)
And 4 will remain stable, complete and supported for plenty of time to come. But 5 will never get there unless it is released. So, just like most people should have stuck with 3.x until at least 4.2 and probably a bit later than that, stick to 4.x for now unless you want a rough ride. Then, when 5.x is on par with or better than 4.x was, the distros will switch. FWIW, I expect the transition from 4 to 5 to be a lot smoother than 3 to 4 was.
Re:Non-LTS Ubuntu Release == DO NOT WANT (Score:4)
Besides, that same nerd would be damned to run a single distro, he'd always have a (couple of ) fall-back systems.
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Just kills me that all of Linuxdom does without Pinch-to-Zoom (2 finger gestures) on a touchpad. All modern laptops (including Win8) have this feature but Linux skewers it in the butt.
OSX is its own vertical silo, so the hardware/software/driver/OS integration is completely seamless - it's the benefit of the Apple approach. Windows 8 kinda-sorta has this, but for the most part those gestures are handled by the Synaptics drivers and software, and are configured as such. In other words, Windows 8 will see a touchpad as a garden variety 2-button mouse. If you want pinch-zoom, swiping, and all that other crap that I disabled on my touchpad anyway (except edge scrolling), it's all a result of
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GNOME strikes back (Score:2)
I haven't used Plasma, but from the screenshots it appears to be as dysfunctional and castrated as the GNOME.
I hope Kubuntu would keep the full-blown KDE as an option.
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Plasma's been Kubuntu's desktop since 2008.
TFA just says the next Kubuntu will ship the Qt5 based version of Plasma instead of the Qt4-based version of Plasma (which was the default up till now).
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Using plasma alone is dysfunctional. Using it as part of KDE has been fine for years.
Wayland (Score:2)
krunner crash. fingerprint scan. NETWORK neighbour (Score:1)