I've been using Plasma 5.X and KDE Frameworks 5 using AlienBob's packages on my Slackware64-current system and I'm fine with them. It's quite stable and work as expected for the most parts, and that's what I expect from a desktop.
I just saw a blog on someone implementing a Plasma 5 QuickLaunch plasmoid, and I'm quite happy with this as I used extensively this plasmoid in Plasma 4.
The only thing I do miss is the Activities tied to Virtual Desktop. I understand Martin's arguments in his blog and know that sometimes some features require too many quirks and workarounds to be maintainable and thus kept.
But the alternatives are far less convincing right now. Moving windows around between activities is very awkward and some wine windows, like Office ones, do not understand activities well and thus appear on all. I added the quick activity changer plasmoid to the ones I use, but it's more awkward than just putting the mouse pointer on a side of a screen (provided you configured a mouse gesture/position to start Desktop Grid effect) then select the wanted activity.
But this is pretty much the only complain I have on Plasma 5.4 now, for all the rest, it's very usable to me.
I just saw a blog on someone implementing a Plasma 5 QuickLaunch plasmoid, and I'm quite happy with this as I used extensively this plasmoid in Plasma 4.
The only thing I do miss is the Activities tied to Virtual Desktop. I understand Martin's arguments in his blog and know that sometimes some features require too many quirks and workarounds to be maintainable and thus kept.
But the alternatives are far less convincing right now. Moving windows around between activities is very awkward and some wine windows, like Office ones, do not understand activities well and thus appear on all. I added the quick activity changer plasmoid to the ones I use, but it's more awkward than just putting the mouse pointer on a side of a screen (provided you configured a mouse gesture/position to start Desktop Grid effect) then select the wanted activity.
But this is pretty much the only complain I have on Plasma 5.4 now, for all the rest, it's very usable to me.
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