I've been using KDE for roughly 6 years or so, maybe longer.
Plasma seems like a significant enough of a change, if I even understand what it really is, that somewhere there should be some sort of guide for it.
Things I've noticed in the first 10 minutes of using it:
- All of my old .desktop files from my KDE3.5 install do nothing. I can't double click on the Firefox icon I have there. I can't double click on a text file to open it. Double clicking on an icon on the desktop should do something.
- If they're not intelligent controls, what are the things on the desktop?
- I accidentally resized one of the icons on the desktop to the upper left (which I think is a great feature) and all of a sudden my desktop (the thing my wallpaper is painted onto) slid off the bottom right of my screen, leaving me with a huge icon, my "desktop" only showing it's top left corner and big great area filling most of my screen that I couldn't interact with. Not to mention that I could not for the life of me figure out how to get my desktop centered again. I guess this is kind of cool that you "desktop" can be infinite maybe? I dunno, but it's different and there should be some indication of how you control it
- Ctrl+Alt+[Left|Right] is a really fast way to switch between desktops. Hitting Ctrl-F8 then clicking on a desktop is not. I looked in the Keyboard & Mouse section and there's no available option anymore for Switch to Next Desktop, or Previous Desktop. In fact, I think there used to be TONS of options here, and now there are like 20. What happened? Is the configuration somewhere else?
That's all that I've come up with in the first 10 minutes. I rant b/c I care
Like I said, long time KDE user, used to do KDE development a long time ago, so I'm not trying to bash it, just trying to get the information out.
-Chris
Friday, May 31st 2024, 10:41pm
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