good to know, thank you Phil W On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > Those 2 things are both still there. > > For the menu selection, it has been moved slightly to a better location. > You now right click on the K icon and select "Alternatives" and then you > are given a list of ALL the menu alternatives that exist. The > "Alternatives" selection seems to be a configuration design that they have > carried across everything that can or does have multiple options. It should > make less obvious options noticeable to more people. > > For the desktop, they have combined all the different desktop types into a > single versatile desktop. So to get a classic desktop with icons on it, go > to the "Wallpaper" tab under the desktop settings and change it from > "Desktop" to "Folderview". I have noticed that the folder view specific > setting don't appear in the desktop settings area until you exit out of the > desktop settings and then go back in. > > Brian Cluff > > On 10/14/2015 02:09 PM, Phil Waclawski wrote: > >> Well, for one, I dislike the tabbed menu KDE has by default, so I >> usually do a right click and "Classic Menu Style". Student said that was >> gone (I haven't tried out 15 yet). Also that you can't easily set the >> desktop to "folder view" either. If those are true, that's not a good >> sign for the rest of it. I need to get the live DVD and test it myself. >> >> Phil W >> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Brian Cluff > > wrote: >> >> On 10/13/2015 06:14 PM, Phil Waclawski wrote: >> >> Yes, and the UNITY thing on Ubuntu also beat windows 8 to the >> punch. >> That was when I switched to Kubuntu. I've had a student testing >> kubuntu >> 15 and it looks like the customizations I normally do to KDE >> have been >> disabled (or hidden) in KDE 5....may start looking at Mint or >> something >> else. >> >> >> Just curious, what customizations are you finding that are missing? >> In my option Kubuntu 15.04 was really a rough release and I haven't >> recommend it to much of anyone. Plasma 5 appears to have been >> adopted about 2 months too soon to make it the default desktop in >> Kubuntu. After about 2 months you could load the Kubuntu backports >> PPA and that would make things fairly nice. >> >> There are a small handful of plasmoids that didn't make the port >> over to the plasma 5 environment, one of my favorites being the the >> "quicklaunch" plasmoid. At first I was pissed, but on doing some >> research I found out that the quicklaunch plasmoid has been >> abandoned by the author for years so it was bound to get dropped >> anyway. The good thing is that the effective functionality of the >> quicklaunch plasmoid has been pulled into the folderview plasmoid >> which changes it's behavior if it's put into a panel. >> >> Anyway, cut to the as unreleased Kubunutu 15.10... It's a whole >> different beast compared to the 15.04 rlease, and in my opinion is >> what should have been the initial plasma 5 desktop release. All the >> crashes are now gone. Most of the missing features are back and the >> still missing ones are most likely your least used features and >> should be back in shortly. The desktop is silky smooth and >> noticeably faster than the 14.x versions of KDE. Of course it could >> also be argued that Kubuntu wouldn't have been in such a good state >> if it hadn't released plasma 5 to the wild when it did... oh well, >> it is what it is. >> >> If you are currently running 14.04LTS then I believe that by the >> time you upgrade to the next LTS in 6 months, the desktop should be >> just a faster, smoother version of what you already know... only >> better. >> If you are looking to upgrade sooner, then I think you'll still find >> the desktop in excellent shape... It might be missing a few minor >> features right now, but there is often a workaround till the feature >> gets added back in in the near future. >> >> Probably the biggest change that might bite you is that KDE is now >> storing it's configurations in more standard locations like .config, >> .local, etc and a small number of other paths have changed as well, >> like the path to the service menus. A quick mv and a softlink >> quickly take care of the legacy location on an updated box. >> >> Brian Cluff >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >