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Interesting write-up. I was a big fan of KDE 3 but never used KDE 4 or 5 in earnest because every time I gave it a serious try, it would start crashing randomly
by bityard 6y ago
Interesting write-up. I was a big fan of KDE 3 but never used KDE 4 or 5 in earnest because every time I gave it a serious try, it would start crashing randomly or some critical piece just wouldn't work the way it was supposed to. And that was _after_ disabling a bunch of the "fluff." But a few weeks ago, I decided to give it another try (via the packages in Ubuntu 20.10) and it's been _wonderful_. I can tweak all the knobs I want to tweak, and it has been very solid so far.
I really appreciate software projects that place a higher priority on evolution rather than rm'ing huge swaths of working functionality, designing a worse replacement, and then calling it innovation. KDE did this with 4 and then took a decade to get back to something stable. Let's hope the cycle doesn't start over again anytime soon.
- ognarb 6y agoThe plans for plasma 6 and kde frameworks 6 are mostly around removing old deprecated features, simplify our dependency tree and porting to qt6. And there is no plans of adding any big features.
- noisem4ker 6y agoOld deprecated features such as...? Where can I read more?
- ahartmetz 6y agoMostly really boring stuff like deprecated API functions with better replacements and such. KDE does not remove features for the heck of it, if it happens it is almost always because of rewrites. There are no rewrites of that nature planned AFAIK.
- ognarb 6y agoYou can find all the discussion here: https://phabricator.kde.org/tag/kf6/ https://phabricator.kde.org/tag/kf6/. Don't worry the features are mostly in the API, often because there is now a better available api (e.g. KPluginInfo vs KPluginMetaData, QRegExp vs QRegularExpression, ...).
- ASalazarMX 6y agoKDE 4 frequently failed in weird ways for me, but KDE 5 has been stable and much more pleasant than Gnome. It's not only that I learned to avoid the weirdness, it definitely improved significantly. If only it didn't assume my external screens are part of the same touch surface of my laptop, because that makes touch unusable... maybe KDE 6.