KDE Frameworks 5.3 and Plasma 5.1 available

[Daniel Vratil]

On Wednesday 22 of October 2014 03:20:02 Loïc Yhuel wrote:
> Le 17/10/2014 13:43, Daniel Vratil a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > KDE Frameworks 5.3 were moved to fedora-updates couple days ago, and
> > Plasma
> > 5.1 is now available too for Fedora 20 and 21 in the Plasma 5 COPR [0].
> > 
> > I have also updated the live ISO images so you can try Plasma 5.1 before
> > installing it [1].
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Daniel
> > 
> > 
> > [0] http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/dvratil/plasma-5/
> > [1] http://pub.dvratil.cz/plasma/iso/5.1/
> 
> Hi,

Hey, 

> 
> I'm still using KDE4 Workspace, but with plasma-oxygen for Qt5 apps
> (mainly QtCreator).
> I will try Plasma5 again soon, but in 5.0 font rendering was bad with
> full hinting [0].
> 
> After updating plasma-oxygen from 5.0.2 to 5.1.0, with the same font size :
>   - menu bar and menu items now have a big vertical padding (looks
> horrible IMHO)
>   - checkboxes are bigger
>   - buttons have a bigger vertical padding
>   - ...
> I like the compact KDE4 style, here all I see is wasted space in comparison.

That's the new style called Breeze. Some like it, some don't (I do :-)).

> 
> I can't find anything in oxygen-settings5 to revert this, do you know if
> there is an option somewhere ?

You can install plasma-oxygen package and enable it in System Settings -> 
Application Style -> Widget Style, that provides the KDE 4 Oxygen style for 
Plasma 5 (well, it's not exactly the same, some changes and polishing happened 
there too, but it's still basically the same).

Dan

> 
> [0] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337556
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