Plasma 5 as a daily driver?

[Kevin Kofler]

Duncan wrote:
> I haven't particularly minded the cashew here, especially after they
> changed it to fade out unless hovered over, but I never really understood
> why they insisted on it remaining for those really bothered by it, when
> its functionality was available elsewhere.  So reading that there's an
> option to turn it off in plasma5 is good news, and given the option, I
> probably will as well.

kde-plasma-ihatethecashew does wonders on Plasma 4. :-)

> Of course, as you somewhat implied, one person's insignificant nitpick is
> someone else's absolutely critical feature, as the kde devs found out all
> too well in the kde3 -> kde4 upgrade.  Thankfully, they're being less
> forceful about dropping support for what actually works in favor of new
> but broken stuff, this time around.  If distros are forcing upgrades,
> that's on them and for me anyway could be a reason to switch distro, but
> at least the kde folks are being a bit more understanding about people's
> absolutely critical features, this time around, and continuing to provide
> at least minimal/security upgrades somewhat longer, for those who find
> their absolutely critical features are simply broken in the new version,
> and who thus need to wait awhile until they're either fixed or worst-case
> dropped as features entirely, so they know they have to find alternatives.

KDE upstream is actually no longer shipping any updates to kde-workspace 
4.x, they even locked the repository to prevent everybody from committing 
any fixes to it.

        Kevin Kofler