On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 07:53:34PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:21:37 -0500, Dale wrote:
A while ago I set up a VM in which I can observe KDE 5 as it matures. Right now I find it not yet usable, mostly because many things are not yet ported and because of random crashes of plasma. (And I too find Breeze too much space-consuming, plus there are those single-colour icons that are clearly inspired by Spysoft Windows 10). Oh well, in the early days of KDE 4 I was a huge fan of KDE 3’s Crystal icons, and now I really like Oxygen. It is always a question of getting used to change. But those thin, colourless, sometimes abstract lines really make it more difficult to recognise stuff, making it also a UX issue. > > Oh, I had to switch to sddm for this too. You just change the setting > > from kdm to sddm and it just works. It looks different but it works > > fine. That may have carried over some settings. It selected the user > > and was ready for my password just like kdm did. Again, it looks > > different but it seems to work the same. I suspect one could adjust the > > settings, somewhere, and make it look like kdm if they wanted to. > > That's because kdm is dead. I found sddm a little flakey. On my laptop it > works more or less as expected, but on my desktop, selecting reboot or > power off from the desktop drops me back to sddm without rebooting. I don't particularly like SDDM. I does not allow me to log in using just the keyboard, I always have to click into the password field after it loaded up. The field is neither active by default nor can I select it with Tab. Call it a nitpick, but even Windows lets me enter my password without a mouse. Is it a problem with my VM or can you confirm this? This would more belong to a KDE forum, but since I’m at it, I can just as well blurb it here. :) I have a similar argument about the new cascading (“old-style”) Application menu in KDE 5: In KDE 4, I can access any item in the Leave menu (and any other submenu, for that matter) with Alt+F1 and two letters (as long as they get a shortcut letter assigned). This is not possible anymore due to the new search field. Well, my argument is a bit self-contradicting because in KDE 3 SuSE hat a similar search field in the menu and back then I actually liked that. But nowadays we have KRunner for searching. The cascading menu is perfect for fast keyboard-based navigation using the starting letter. And even though I don’t use the favorites feature myself, those are also not accessible with the keyboard at all. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any social network. “A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open Windows.” – Linus Torvalds
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