On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 14:29 +0100, Daniel Vrátil wrote: > On Friday, January 30, 2015 01:17:01 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I just installed Plasma 5 from the COPR repo. A fairly easy process (had > > to remove a few packages but no big deal). A couple of issues at first > > glance: > > > > 1) My carefully-tuned KDE settings are all gone, e.g. Dolphin, Konsole, > > virtual desktops, lockscreen behaviour etc. Can these be recovered > > easily (I have backups)? Why does this happen anyway, especially to apps > > which are independent of Plasma? > > Dolphin and Konsole should still use their KDE 4 configuration, the only > change being the looks (i.e. using the Breeze widget theme instead of Oxygen). > > Plasma 5 configuration (and all KDE Frameworks 5-based applications > configuration for that matter) are now stored in ~/.config. ~/.kde is no > longer used, so you can recover everything from there. They certainly seem to be very well hidden. .kde has share/apps/<app-name> but there's nothing similar under .config. Since my test Konsole configuration is being preserved across logins it's clearly being stored somewhere, it's just not obvious exactly where. > > 2) Speaking of virtual desktops, I can no longer see how to configure > > how they look in the panel. In the old system I had each one labelled > > with a name, but that no longer appears except when I hover the cursor, > > which slows down switching. > > Right-click the pager applet in the panel, select "Configure Desktops" to name > your desktops, then right-click the applet again and select "Configure Pager", > and select the "Desktop name" Display option there. That will show the names > you set. That worked, thanks. > > Plasma is shiny and fast, so I'm generally positive so far, but these > > details are going to annoy a lot of people. > > The partially (or not at all) migrated settings is indeed annoying. However > upstream has realized they neglected this and will work towards improving this > in next updates. This will obviously not affect people who already upgraded, > but will make the initial experience better for users who update from KDE 4 to > Plasma 5.3 (or 5.4, who knows how long it will take them ;-). Definitely a priority IMHO, or all hell will break loose. You don't want the KDE4 wars all over again. poc _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
