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Re: MX17 - KDE?
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 4:25 am
by Gordon Cooper
Many of the 32 bit torrent uploads are going to South America, Brazil in particular.
Re: MX17 - KDE?
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 11:19 am
by Richard
I do enjoy the 64 bit with => 4 GiB RAM,
but the 32 bit, 1 GiB RAM netbooks are easier to carry around.
They are adequate on MX with a couple or 3 apps open: FF, LibO & Thunar;
although, admittedly slower than the 64 bit.
A 2 GiB RAM, 32 bit netbook is much better, so I hear.
Re: MX17 - KDE?
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 12:19 pm
by wingdo
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:36 pm
I know of no plans for an official KDE version.
Stevo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:46 pm
There may be an
unofficial KDE respin by one or more of the developers, that's about it for now.
Man, I thought I saw on Reddit that MX was working on a Plasma desktop version. A bummer as while I always hated KDE, Plasma 5 has really changed my mind on the DE.
Re: MX17 - KDE?
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 12:35 pm
by Adrian
I'm very close to release a test KDE respin of MX. Probably by the end of the week.
Re: MX17 - KDE?
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:40 pm
by sunrat
Will this have Xfce removed and replaced by KDE Plasma? I installed Plasma 5.12 on vanilla MX from Neptune repos a while back which worked fine but abandoned it due to much duplication of programs. Some MX Tools don't work with Plasma so ideally those should be removed also which sounds like a lot of work..
Ended up doing a netinstall of Stretch and added the same Plasma 5 with kde-plasma-desktop. This worked well but obviously doesn't have the nice MX Tools. Discussion about that is here -
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 36#p445636
I will be trying it out when it's released and appreciate your effort, Adrian!
Re: MX17 - KDE?
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:32 am
by lonesomepoint
sunrat wrote: ↑Wed Aug 15, 2018 9:40 pm
Will this have Xfce removed and replaced by KDE Plasma? I installed Plasma 5.12 on vanilla MX from Neptune repos a while back which worked fine but abandoned it due to much duplication of programs. Some MX Tools don't work with Plasma so ideally those should be removed also which sounds like a lot of work..
Ended up doing a netinstall of Stretch and added the same Plasma 5 with kde-plasma-desktop. This worked well but obviously doesn't have the nice MX Tools. Discussion about that is here -
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 36#p445636
I will be trying it out when it's released and appreciate your effort, Adrian!
KDE Plasma? I may need to be educated on what KDE is like recently, because I haven't used it in seven years. I thought ever since KDE 4, the main KDE
was "plasma workspaces." What, did KDE quit that because too many people dropped KDE in disgust like I did?
Even if KDE's main product doesn't use plasma anymore, I can't imagine why MX would abandon XFCE. It works too well.
Re: MX17 - KDE?
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 9:41 am
by Jerry3904
MX is not abandoning Xfce, and not producing an official KDE release.
Period.
Re: MX17 - KDE?
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 11:45 am
by asqwerth
The word is UNOFFICIAL, people.
Re: MX17 - KDE?
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 12:08 pm
by sunrat
KDE now consists of Frameworks, Plasma, and Applications.
Simply explained -
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread. ... ost2789437
Re: MX17 - KDE?
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 11:24 am
by crazysquirrel
anyone try going into synaptic and downloading the KDE Metapackage?