KDE Developers Begin Working More On Plasma 5.20 Changes

[240Hz]

Oops sorry I thought you were using another DE for a moment o-o

How usable is the low latency patch with wayland? As far as I know it didnt support wayland before. I might build it myself instead.

[Volta]

This is sort of true though, since Windows XP and Windows 7 were faster back then.

(Windows XP is buggy though)

More lightweight than Windows 10 for sure. I was avoiding switch from 7 for a long, but it's EOL so I didn't have a choice. However, there's just very few things I need it for and in not so distant future I'll remove it completely.

[skeevy420]

it is the year 2020. i've been using unix since 1982. i've been using linux since the late 90's (daily). and i'm *still* waiting for a desktop environment that can save my open applications, their screen position and sizes, and their virtual root window placements as part of a persistent session. i'm old. and at this point i feel like i'm going to kick the bucket before this ever happens :-).

I've wanted to be able to save scum my desktop environment as well.

[skeevy420]

At one time when the average Joe bought their Vic 20, Tandy Color, ZX Spectrum etc a blinking cursor was all they had and no fancy GUI, I remember those days well.

Cue the four Yorkshiremen

I don't believe you

[Slartifartblast]

Those were the times.




Sadly, it's 2020 and Average Joe hasn't grown up in the 8-bit computer era anymore.

FYI, the Tandy Co. had a 6809E which sported pseudo 16bit capabilities in that you could combine the 8 bit A&B accumulators to give a 16 bit D register, I owned a clone of it at the time. The TI-99 was fully 16 bit.

[tildearrow]

How usable is the low latency patch with wayland? As far as I know it didnt support wayland before. I might build it myself instead.

As of this point, none. I only support X11.

In a future I might add in the FT patches for better Wayland support but since they are forking every library I am not sure.

[tildearrow]

FYI, the Tandy Co. had a 6809E which sported pseudo 16bit capabilities in that you could combine the 8 bit A&B accumulators to give a 16 bit D register, I owned a clone of it at the time. The TI-99 was fully 16 bit.

I know that. By "8-bit era" I meant as in the '70-'80's.

[andyprough]

LOL. Plasma 5 isn't perfect and I actually gave up on it (but it's still better than some other DE's out there!), but no way in hell that that KDE 4 crap was better. KDE 4 should've never been marked stable. Even GNOME Shell is better than KDE 4 ever was.

KDE 4 on suse/opensuse was very good. As was KDE 3 before it. Use the correct setup and stay away from tragic RedHat and Canonical messes, and you'll nearly always do well.

[tildearrow]

KDE 4 on suse/opensuse was very good. As was KDE 3 before it. Use the correct setup and stay away from tragic RedHat and Canonical messes, and you'll nearly always do well.

I can't believe people still hate Plasma 4 to this day... Come on, it was the most polished version of Plasma (before Plasma 5 of course) at the end of its life! (4.14)
It has even more customization possibilities than Plasma 5, even to this day.

[StarterX4]

Yesterday I installed Neon for trying. Heavy, heavy, and heavy. The the only ram usage say nothing. Kde4 Plasma was way better.

One year ago i had Lenovo IdeaPad 100 15IBY with Intel HD Graphics, Celeron N2840, 8GB ram – and yup, it was lagging badly, a bit less with disabled composition. Now on IdeaPad 500-15ISK 80NT with i5 6200U, HD Graphics 520 + R7 M360, 12GB ram, it works like a dream.