On Tuesday 12 July 2016 13:30:58 Philip Webb wrote: > It looks as if in the near future I am going to have to install KDE 5 , > if I want to go on using my regular daily apps Konsole Gwenview Okular ; > yes, I know I can limit exposure to their requirements > & don't need to install the whole desktop system. > > Before I plunge into that, is anyone else using KDE 5 every day ? > What are people's experiences with it ?
I built a separate KDE-5 system in some spare disk space to see what it was like. I thought it was the ugliest desktop I'd ever seen, but after a good deal of poking around and waiting for enough development progress to have been made I did eventually find a group of settings that suited me. At that point, about a week ago, I converted my KDE-4 main system to KDE-5 and I'm now using it happily. This is a desktop box running BOINC projects 24/7 so it has no need of hibernation etc. but I do use KMail, which I've always liked. I also don't use dolphin much, nor konqueror at all, so I haven't stumbled over the problems some others are reporting. So I'm fairly happy with it for now. -- Rgds Peter
