Fedora-22 KDE panel

[Dan Mossor]

On 07/14/2015 08:16 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>> On 07/14/15 20:19, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>> Also I miss the multiple desktops I had in Fedora-21 KDE.
>>> Have these been abolished in Plasma-5?
>>
>> In addition to what poc said, there are still multiple virtual desktops.
>> I'm running 6.  The one thing that is currently missing, and which may be
>> being  worked, is the inability to have different wallpaper on each
>> virtual desktop.
>>
>> Go to System-Settings--->Workspace--->Desktop Behavior--->Virtual Desktops
>> to define your desired settings.
>
> I don't have Workspace in my System-Settings -
> I only have Personal, Hardware and System.
> I seem to be missing something ...
>
> But is this bar at the top of my display a panel?
> It has 3 segments - Activities (on the left), which takes me to Favourites,
> Data/Time (in the center) which also tells me about e-mail arrivals,
> and a tray (on the right) which opens a small window with 3 icons
> which I take to be System Settings, Screen Lock, and Shutdown/Restart.
> (That is the only way I see to go to System Settings.)
>
> Some things work well in Fedora-22 -
> I don't mind writing dnf instead of yum (doesn't sound so nice)
> and it seems to be significantly faster.
> The display seems to me a little better on my ThinkPad T510.
> I was surprised that my Firefox, KNode and KMail settings
> were automatically updated - I assume that the data is saved
> somewhere in my home folder.
> The loss of the old panel is slightly annoying, but that is all.
>
>
>
The you don't have F22 Plasma, you have F22 Workstation. The desktop you 
describe is the GNOME shell, not Plasma. When you log in, there should 
be a selection of which desktop to launch - see if Plasma Workspaces is 
listed there, if not, we can help you get it loaded.

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Dan Mossor, RHCSA
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