My thoughts on KDE

[paul1149]

While I'm at it, there is one other problem with KDE. Apparently the problem rests with QT, in that mouse wheel scroll at times unpredictably jumps all over the place. A search on ``` qt scrolling jump bug ``` will reveal various permutations of the bug. I experience it here in Vivaldi quite regularly. An annoyance, but not a deal-breaker.

[Sparky]

I love KDE. On a machine I have htop shows 550MG of use once it enters the environment. an official version of KDE based on MX linux would be ideal!

[Mauser]

KDE is good and bad for me. The good is lots of settings and eye candy. Low usage of RAM on Plasma 5 unlike 4. Good support community. The bad. Lots of settings. Awful application options. No Whisker menu option. None of the application menus come close to the natural feeling and ease of resizing of the Whisker menu. One application menu is like it came from Windows 98se, the other looks like a menu from Windows 8, the other one with selections on the bottom and going back and forth looking for categories is awkward. There seems to be a new one that looks a little bit like from Mate. Can't resize the application menus. Developers are reluctant to come out with a Whisker menu. Very bad documentation. There is no way to open Dolphin as root in a current session. You have to log out and log in as root in order to do tasks that require root access.

[paul1149]

@Sparky -Yeah, I'd love a MX-KDE version, but that's up to the devs.

@mauser -I'm ok with the main Menu options in kde. I use the full screen "Application Dashboard". Yes, sometimes the options can be overwhelming; it's a learning curve. Dolphin has a root actions plugin, available through synaptic. For hundreds of other dolphin plugins, check out the kde store:

https://store.kde.org/browse/cat/102/order/latest/

[Mauser]

@Sparky -Yeah, I'd love a MX-KDE version, but that's up to the devs.

@mauser -I'm ok with the main Menu options in kde. I use the full screen "Application Dashboard". Yes, sometimes the options can be overwhelming; it's a learning curve. Dolphin has a root actions plugin, available through synaptic. For hundreds of other dolphin plugins, check out the kde store:

https://store.kde.org/browse/cat/102/order/latest/

Thank you. Good to know Dolphin has the capability of opening as root.

[paul1149]

@JeffA, looks like I've solved the font problem in Wine/theWord. DejaVu Sans does a great job on English, Greek, and Hebrew. I'm converting the dictionary/commentary modules to it right now.

[richb]

KDE is good and bad for me. The good is lots of settings and eye candy. Low usage of RAM on Plasma 5 unlike 4. Good support community. The bad. Lots of settings. Awful application options. No Whisker menu option. None of the application menus come close to the natural feeling and ease of resizing of the Whisker menu. One application menu is like it came from Windows 98se, the other looks like a menu from Windows 8, the other one with selections on the bottom and going back and forth looking for categories is awkward. There seems to be a new one that looks a little bit like from Mate. Can't resize the application menus. Developers are reluctant to come out with a Whisker menu. Very bad documentation. There is no way to open Dolphin as root in a current session. You have to log out and log in as root in order to do tasks that require root access.

Or download thunar which you can run as root. I use thunar for root access and dolphin for everything else.

[JeffA]

@JeffA, looks like I've solved the font problem in Wine/theWord. DejaVu Sans does a great job on English, Greek, and Hebrew. I'm converting the dictionary/commentary modules to it right now.

Great!

I recall I also had to play around quite a bit with fonts to get Hebrew and Greek to look well.

Under preferences I have DejaVu Serif for default Greek and Default Book view font. So I assume DejaVu Sans should work just as well. For default Hebrew font I have Ezra SIL.

I don't remember the details as to why I ended up with Ezra SIL for Hebrew, but it seems to be working well.

[JeffA]

@JeffA, looks like I've solved the font problem in Wine/theWord. DejaVu Sans does a great job on English, Greek, and Hebrew. I'm converting the dictionary/commentary modules to it right now.

Also under Module Properties > Settings and Actions, you have the option to use default fonts instead of the fonts defined in the module. I think that might keep you from having to convert the modules?

[Mauser]

Or download thunar which you can run as root. I use thunar for root access and dolphin for everything else.

Cool.