Some 15.04 annoyances...

[mannenrok]

On my laptop and pc there are a lot of annoyances in relation to plasma desktop:
1. In Dolphin you can't select files anymore with the control button.
2. Baloo eats all of my system resources. Disable the search is the only possible solution
3. On logon very frequently i don't get a desktop. The screen remains black
4. With my laptop with 2 graphic cards almost every install i get two screen support enabled.
5. A lot of desktop enhancements are not available
6. Battery consumption is a drag. Mostly 2 hours. Windows 10 is doing much better with 4.30.

[MoonRise]

True. So true!

[Buddlespit]

We had the same birthing pains when kde3 transitioned to kde4. Gnome just went thru it. Enlightenment is getting ready to go thru it. It's a pain in the ass, but it'll get better.

[MoonRise]

I'm just so used to "adjusting" everything to my like. That is what seems missing to me. I can't explain the Plasma Crash. Happened only twice here. Though I have crashed, I think, KRUNNER quite a bit. Reported that one to KDE.




EDIT: Yep, KRUNNER.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346579

[xennex81]

Still, it can be annoying ;-). To get a half finished product ;-).

[MoonRise]

Yep... annoyances. I didn't say show stoppers!

[xennex81]

Here I was seriously thinking those were all productivity applications and they are just plasmoids or environment monitors? Jeez.

[MoonRise]

I like it, don't get me wrong. I can see how improved it is, when it doesn't crash. It does seem fresh and faster. There are just those annoyances. I hope YAWP and LUNA get ported soon. CONKY, I can live without for now.

[Penguinclaw]

I haven't experienced any crashes at all. I tried the alpha and that was buggy but out of the plasma 5 distros I have tried Kubuntu is the most stable and usable. This is a big change for KDE and I think they (the devs) are definitely on the right track. With time bugs will be sorted and more will be ported over. I guess the question is was it the right time to move over to plasma 5?? I guess from reading many posts here the answer may be that it was a little premature for most. Mind at least there is LTS so maybe that is why the decision was made to do it. Also Kubuntu is the 'official' distro for plasma 5 and the only way to find and squash bugs is to get more to try it....

From my personal view point I really like it. The desktop looks clean and fresh and the philosophy behind this new generation of KDE, again in my opinion, is sound.

[xennex81]

That black screen of death needs to be fixed lol.

I wish they just went back to ****ing LightDM.

[Buddlespit]

What problems are you having with dolphin under plasma 5?

edit: I ask because my daughters laptop is running Kubuntu 15.04/Plasma 5 and she hasn't complained to me about anything yet.

[Teunis]

Plasma5 is most definitely not ready for widespread use.

I especially loath the difficulties in setting up hot keys, both global and application level.

Then the problems with Dolphin still being Plasma4, it's unacceptable.
Another one I ran into is the KIPI plugins don't work for GwenView.

A PITA that 14.10 won't be supported for much longer.

[dtr]

I don't know about anyone else, but I've had some plasma 5 crashes or unusual behaviours, black screens, not to mention other bugs. I did however find that when Plasma is misbehaving or crashed, I have found this usually works at restarting Plasma for me: alt-F2 and enter: kquitapp plasmashell && plasmashell

[MoonRise]

Either of those settings causes bad effects with the layout I have. I'd change the GL version but I'm already using v2.

[Buddlespit]

Loving Plasma 5, but got a few annoyances I would dearly like to sort out:

2. Conky that ran flawlessly in 14.10 randomly disappears sometimes when applications are launched or notifications appear. The lua clock will also randomly run about 30 seconds fast compared to the system tray clock indicator. Have tried messing with .conkyrc but can't find out what is wrong - possibly a compositing problem?

Edit your conkyrc and add or change 'own_window_type' to either dock or panel. I use 'own_window_type panel'. As for backup, I use a dd script set to a systemd service and timer. Also, I load my ~/.cache to tmpfs, so it gets cleared at every reboot. Doing so will also allocate about half of your ram, so it can get unwieldy if you don't reboot every few days.