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Originally posted by Awesomeness View PostNeither are KMix etc. frameworks nor does your reply offer an explanation why they became Extragear modules (=independent release cycle) during the SC4 era.
Originally posted by Awesomeness View PostThey don't but people are afraid of change.
In a world of widescreen monitors putting the task bar on the bottom edge is as stupid as desktop icons, which are always covered by windows, have always been.
As for the taskbar being on the bottom, a single option change and BOOM, it's on the left or right side of the screen. Windows 7/8 looks a little weird like this, but I think KDE does it really nicely.
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Originally posted by TheBlackCat View PostYes, some KDE projects have moved to a "master is always usable" approach after the move to git and the resulting modularization of KDE repositories and tarballs. But actual kmix releases still happen as part of KDE SC releases. Just look at the latest tarballs, you will find kmix alongside everything else, just as it has always been.
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Originally posted by Daktyl198 View PostI feel like BlueDevil was moved to "Extragear" because it's not really... core? Like, it's not directly related to most desktop users.
BlueDevil never was part of Workspace. Its predecessor was.
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the next LTS is Kubuntu 16.04 in spring 2016
Originally posted by Awesomeness View PostI'm hardly a fan of Kubuntu but the stable release is the 14.04 LTS one.
In the Ubuntu world all releases between LTSes are meant to be experimental.
Everything else is tested on Virtuabox.
I had most of my computers on KDE3.5 when KDE 4 came out and I waited about 18-24months when KDE4.2 and 4.3 came out and I thought they were ready to switch my machines then the ones belonging to my parents and inlaws and aunts. Of course, some lemmings didnt bother to RTFA and were surprised.
I kept testing KDE 4.0, 4.1 and so on until I found it stable enough for use.
This time around I can test Plasma 4-5 all I want (test them virtually or on a spare laptop I test distros on) until July-Aug 2016 because its not being used in any work, home or relatives computers until then.
Of course, if you switch your work machine as soon as something new comes in and youre not a newb, then youre an idiot.
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Perhaps, if KMix and BlueDevil included Plasma applets, they could be released alongside Plasma. Well, KMix has a Plasma 4 applet but it has been in review for over a year now.
Also, Apachelogger (a Kubuntu developer) has been making a new Plasma applet based solely on PulseAudio. Perhaps, this new applet can be installed along with Plasma and obviously only show up if PulseAudio is found (KMix would be the alternative).
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Originally posted by CTown View PostPerhaps, if KMix and BlueDevil included Plasma applets, they could be released alongside Plasma. Well, KMix has a Plasma 4 applet but it has been in review for over a year now.
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Originally posted by staalmannen View PostI have been running KF5 and plasma-desktop for a couple of weeks/months now as a primary desktop (with fallback to lxqt or awesome) on my Arch system (first from AUR and now from the binary repositories).
I find it totally useable with minor or no problems. The missing stuff at the moment are the KDE applications that still need KDE4 stuff (there were some conflicts where upgrades got tricky). Given time I think it will all be very polished and good. Releasing each part when it is ready instead of trying to do a single SC makes a lot of sense even if there are some cases of annoyances now before everything is ready.
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