On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 05:50:34PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Samstag, 18. Juli 2015, 14:27:47 schrieb Marc Haber: > > Hi, > […] > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 12:13:02PM +0200, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > > Anyway, some features appear to have been lost in the upgrade. Here's > > > what I'm missing so far: > > > > > > * Skype and others don't show up in the system tray any more. > > > Apparently, I need to install sni-qt which isn't packaged, yet. See > > > https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=124670 > > > > That's a pretty big transition, especially for the background that > > sni-qt is dead upstream and won't come up in Debian any time soon. > > Well, its how upstream decided about it.
Yes. That's a parade example of upstream not caring. > > > * Plasma Search, the successor to KRunner, doesn't remember the history. > > > (Really? :-O) > > > > > > * The Veromix plasmoid doesn't work anymore and there doesn't seem to be > > > a suitable replacement to control PulseAudio from a panel. > > > > But, do you have sound? I seem to have lost sound completely. In > > System Settings, all I can see is my hardware devices in "Audio > > Hardware Setup". Both the "Device Preferences" and "Backend" tabs > > don't offer anything to be selected. Pulseaudio is installed, and both > > mpg321 and paplay on the command line work. > > Yes. But without Pulseaudio. Cause it still creates issues for me (last > issue stuttering sound in PlaneShift all reported but yet unfixed I think). I realized that phonon needs ported libs as well, after instaling the phonon5in4foo libraries sound is fine. > > Other than that, I am having a déjà vu regarding important functions > > missing from the current release, although not so bad as with KDE 4. > > > > Most prominent absences are > > > > - Screensavers (with the additional fun of the canonical solution > > being "use xscreensaver" if you want something shiny instead of a > > blank screen) and > > Blanks screen just fine here. Make sure powerdevil package is installed. Yes. I want my clock back. > > Otherwise, I hate to say that I do not (yet?) see any substantial > > improvement over KDE 4 other than "it's qt5 now" (which is probably > > important). > > It feels snappier for me. But sure, that is no hard data. I don't care about snappy if so many features are missing. > Some long standing annoying bugs got fixed. None of the ones that annoy me every day for years. > > - It is still not possible to sensibly use a vertical panel, which is > > quite important on small displays such as my 1366x768 panel which is > > not high enough anyway and one doesn't want to waste Y coordinate > > pixels with panels. A vertical panel is either unuseable because the > > task manager fields are too small to have any valueable contents or, > > on a wider panel, the icons get scaled up according to panel width so > > that they fill up too much of the panel space. It is obviously still > > not possible to place small icons side-by-side to each other in a wide > > vertical panel. > > I use a vertical panel. Granted the K menu icon is very large. The K menu icon and all single icon launchers. > For placing icons side by side I think I used some launcher widget as you > mentioned. Do you still use one? Which one? > It may be that not all widgets are packages yet for Plasma 5. Maybe > there are still some missing compared to what upstream delivers. I never said that this missing stuff was left out by the packagers. It is just upstream not caring about the people who use their software. Shipping a picture viewer with an incompatible kipi interface without having kipi plugins compatible with that interface is, well, unfriendly. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150722074756.gs9...@torres.zugschlus.de
