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On 07/01/2016 20:40, Dale wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Wed, 06 Jan 2016 16:08:36 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>>>> Thankfully the KDE5 apps I use all work nicely now, I reckon most of |
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>>>> them grossness has passed. |
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>>> Thanks for the warning, Alan. I'll keep my eye open. |
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>> To add some balance to all of this. I switched to KDE5 in July, when it |
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>> hit ~arch, and it all more or less worked. I did have one fairly serious |
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>> problem with KWin, but it turned out to be something else causing it, and |
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>> only one other person reported the issue on b.g.o. |
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>> The transition was a little bumpy with blockers popping up at times, but |
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>> it all seems to have smoothed out now, using the desktop/plasma/systemd |
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>> profile. |
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> Well, I undid everything, moved the files out of /etc/portage, and did |
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> my regular updates. When I logged back in, some things were different. |
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> I don't mean broke different, just different. I sort of lost my |
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> settings on some things it seems and my saved session was a bit weird. |
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> Some apps were open and showed at the bottom but I couldn't get them |
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> where I could see them. It acted like they were hidden, you know when |
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> you click and get it to minimize. Thing is, clicking to get it to come |
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> back didn't work. It's there but not there if you get it. |
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> Also, the desktop looks funny, as in strange funny. It sorta looks neat |
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> in a way but it is different. I also had to set it back to folder view |
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> since it went to default. |
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> I'm not quite sure what changed but something did. I'm pretty sure it |
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> had nothing to do with me trying to get KDE5 tho. I had that so that I |
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> could just move the files out and be back where I was. Also, it never |
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> emerged anything. So, it had to be a regular update that did it but not |
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> sure which one. |
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> The only thing I want to change, I want to make the little icons |
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> smaller. Other than that, it looks "crisper" or "cleaner" in some way |
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> that I can't quite describe. Now to go find that setting. It's in the |
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> control thingy somewhere. I changed it once before. |
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KDE looks different? Probably plasma, it has a distinctive black & white |
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look with blue highlights. |
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X display as a whole looks different? I'd need a screenshot |
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Alan McKinnon |
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