Comments on: Meet The KDE Plasma Developers at SUSE, Feb 22

By: CS

CS — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:20:58 +0000

I would be happy if we can get Yast and Configure Desktop ‘Kcontrol’ to not fight each other nor conflict with each other. Anyone tried to create a SAMBA Server using both interfaces of Yast and Configure Desktop to actually work. The abundances of conflict or duplication in 11.2 with Yast and Configure desktop screams out for usability and functional testing before next release. Getting Network Manager just to co-exist with Yast without a functional nightmare. Perhaps the focus for this team could be one of cooperation with Suse and shared working interfaces. 11.2 is an outstanding example of no testing or cooperation between the functional use of Yast and Kcontrol where functional conflict and confusion is the default

By: LXX

LXX — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:58:39 +0000

Thanks for your reply Chani. It isn’t obvious what comes under the Plasma heading. Maybe I should take the trouble to read about it! In the meantime, I’ve got my desktop as I want it – until the next “improvement” confuses me again.

By: Chani

Chani — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:46:09 +0000

I’m betting you also need a taskbar, a systray, maybe an application menu… the nice little device notifier when you plug in a usb key… all that is plasma too. :) and in actual maintainable code instead of the scaryness kicker had become.

if all you want is provided by the default desktop shell then yes, there are features of plasma you won’t need (remote widgets, mouse plugins, 3rd party taskbars, shiny fun widgets from the interwebs)… but there are still plenty of features of plasma you *are* using without knowing it. :)

By: LXX

LXX — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:03:42 +0000

I still don’t know what Plasma is for! All I want or need is a screen with a few icons.