Re: [Trisquel-users] 5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
"Plasma 5 looks pretty cool. Does Triskel 7 come with it? Or will Triskel 7 auto-update to it?" As Magic Banana said, Plasma 5 won't be in the 7.0 repos because 7.0 is based on Ubuntu 14.04. Ubuntu will include Plasma 5 in 14.10, so Trisquel 8.0 will include it. That will be in about 2 years from now, based on Ubuntu 16.04. You can follow the instructions here to add the PPA. Those are bleeding edge builds, though. "What's the key combination for this search feature? Does it work like Synapse?" In Plasma 4, the key combination for KRunner is Alt+F2. It's probably the same in Plasma 5.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
I haven't been a fan of the KDE Plasmas... but Plasma 5 looks pretty cool. Does Triskel 7 come with Plasma 5? Or will it auto-update to Plasma 5? What's the key combination for this search feature? Does it work like Synapse?: http://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0/screenshots/krunner-kde.png How does Plasma 5 compare to gnome3, mate, and lxde, in terms of ram/cpu?
Re: [Trisquel-users] 5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
The lockscreen was improved in later versions of Plasma 4, you'll probably see it in Belenos. But the new lockscreen is even better. :)
Re: [Trisquel-users] 5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
I hadn't. I've just now seen a page on it, went here to edit my post, and I was too late :) Anyway, my opinion on KDE Plasma 4 is still that's it isn't as good as Cinnamon...
Re: [Trisquel-users] 5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
Have you seen Plasma 5? It was released a few days ago. https://dot.kde.org/2014/07/15/plasma-5.0
Re: [Trisquel-users] 5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
Cinnamon is great and elegant! Having said that though I haven't used it since I removed the Manjaro partition that contained it (since it also contained non-free things). In terms of elegance and tidiness I think KDE plasma is a little bit behind. Not by far, but a little bit behind.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
What's wrong with KDE? I haven't used it much, but I found it to be an elegant DE. Just not as elegant as GNOME.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
KDE? Is this a joke?
Re: [Trisquel-users] 5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
What about KDE Plasma?
Re: [Trisquel-users] 5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
It was Trisquel 6.0. This was last year, it may have improved since then. I don't like buggy software on my system. Just a comment, to some the default desktop may be "ugly" but I was more impressed with the fact that the distro just worked and detected my hardware and the performance was superb. I've tried so many distros where the hardware is not detected even on a live boot, it shows a lot more thought has gone into Trisquel. They haven't taken an existing distro and respun it without thinking about driver support.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
Is this Trisquel 6 or 7? They stopped updating Cinnamon at 2.0 for Ubuntu 12.04 (for which 6 is based off of), but 2.2 is available for Ubuntu 14.04 and Trisquel 7.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
What's the alternative? The mess that is the current Trisquel 6/7 desktop which not only looks bad, but isn't that customizable? How about MATE? Sure if you want Trisquel to look like Gnome 2 and pull in all those Gnome 2 packages and dependencies when the world moved to Gnome 3 and GTK3 years ago. I tried Elementary OS in Trisquel 6 and hopefully the release Isis soon so we can get the desktop in Trisquel 7.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
I tried to install Cinnamon on Trisquel and I hit nothing but problems. Nemo kept crashing so I uninstalled it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
I don't get why you love Cinnamon so much. It's not bad, but I find it to be a cluttered mess.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
I've followed a few guides and it works fine to add the PPAs, but when I run 'sudo apt-get update', it can't find the cinnamon packages.
[Trisquel-users] 5 Simple Ways To Make Cinnamon Feel at Home on Ubuntu (and Trisquel)
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/07/5-things-installing-cinnamon-ubuntu
