I am confused

Eli Wapniarski eli at orbsky.homelinux.org
Tue Apr 14 13:16:38 UTC 2015


Quoting Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 12:42 +0300, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>> I am confused.
>>
>> Way back when, I read that the plasma desktop (KDE 5) was supposed to
>> be feature compatible with 4 only with a much more optimized code base.
>>
>> Now.... after going over the various threads it would appear to me
>> that this is not the case.
>>
>> Of concern to me as a user is that it would seem that if I use KDE 5 I
>> will be going through similar teething pains as that which occurred
>> during the transistion from version 3 to 4. Is that going to be the
>> case? If it is... well thats a real bummer.
>>
>> Thanks for any insight.
>
> It's an easier transition than 3->4. That said, some policy decisions
> are questionable. The one that affects me is lack of support for
> gnome-keyring (note that the kwallet<->gnome-keyring compatibility
> project also appears to be moribund). Other people have complained about
> some more cosmetic stuff which I don't personally care about, but this
> is a show-stopper.
>
> poc
>

Thanks Patrick for that. I just installed (from dvratil) plasma 5 on 1  
machine and I will give it a go. This not a heavily used machine so  
its not that important.

If the cosmetic differences are minor I will grin and bare it. I guess  
I should pose my real questions.

1) If I upgrade a heavily used machine, I will also be upgrading  
KDEPIM... Will I lose my notebooks, filters, etc?

2) Are there any gotchas I should be aware of?

3) Given the number of complaints that I have seen in this mailing  
list are there any contingencies to have a function "KDE" desktop?

4) and ARRRRGGGGHHHH!!! How do I get rid of the "discreet" version of  
the &^*()&^ cashew???


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