KDE Neon is NOW AWESOME, First Impressions/Fixes/Comparison_to_Gnome

[DrGeoffrey]

What I, personally, and it is ONLY.........my PERSONAl..observation , think is going to happen is that there are going to be some really enterprising people who make new and beautiful distros FROM neon...

Think Maui.

As the first derivative of Neon, it's sweet.

[MoonRise]

Think Maui.

As the first derivative of Neon, it's sweet.

Yep!! Using Maui here and love it!

[woodsmoke]

unfortunately i'm older than dirt and stuck in my ways I'll be with Kubu until it fades away into the digital jungle!

woodsmoke

[oldgeek]

I read that it might be necessary to purge the kubuntu backports after 'upgrading' (?) to Neon using Kubuntu as a base instead of Ubuntu. I made my change a few weeks ago but didn't purge the backports. Is this necessary? Why? And what command do I use to do this? So far my Neon/Kubuntu hybrid (got the term from GreyGeek) seems to be working well, although at the moment I can't change wallpapers and I have four packages kept back (I'm using the Neon dev-stable edition).

[claydoh]

I read that it might be necessary to purge the kubuntu backports after 'upgrading' (?) to Neon using Kubuntu as a base instead of Ubuntu. I made my change a few weeks ago but didn't purge the backports. Is this necessary? Why? And what command do I use to do this? So far my Neon/Kubuntu hybrid (got the term from GreyGeek) seems to be working well, although at the moment I can't change wallpapers and I have four packages kept back (I'm using the Neon dev-stable edition).

You can use the ppa-purge command, using the ppa's url you used to add it via the add-apt-repository command.
But realistically at this point you are probably fine , at least until/if Kubuntu-backports gets the same plasma/frameworks/applications versions that are in Neon

[vinnywright]

I read that it might be necessary to purge the kubuntu backports after 'upgrading' (?) to Neon using Kubuntu as a base instead of Ubuntu. I made my change a few weeks ago but didn't purge the backports. Is this necessary? Why? And what command do I use to do this? So far my Neon/Kubuntu hybrid (got the term from GreyGeek) seems to be working well, although at the moment I can't change wallpapers and I have four packages kept back (I'm using the Neon dev-stable edition).

to fix you wallpaper selection in desktop settings copy and paste this

 
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=image


Type=Service
ServiceTypes=Plasma/Wallpaper
Icon=preferences-desktop-wallpaper
X-Plasma-MainScript=ui/main.qml
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Author=Marco Martin
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Email=mart@kde.org
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=org.kde.image
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Version=1.0
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Website=http://kde.org/
X-KDE-PluginInfo-License=LGPL
X-KDE-PluginInfo-EnabledByDefault=true

in a text file named "metadata.desktop" place the metadata.desktop in /usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/ ,,,,,,,,,,,,,you will have the wallpaper setting back in desktop settings

the metadata.json that is in their now dose not get read correctly.

I edited the metadata.desktop from the org.kde.hunyango to get this and took out all the other lang's ,,,,,lazy

VINNY

[woodsmoke]

I vaguely saw the Maui thing which uses the "Hawaiian" desktop? lol

But, I've been fiddling with Neon and Kubu.

I'll check it out if time permits.

woodsmoke