MX-19.2 KDE RC 1 Feedback Thread

[tony37]

I forgot how annoying Plasma's default settings are: having to change to from icon view to compact view each time I enter a new directory in Dolphin, the 30-second shutdown confirmation delay instead of just shutting down, single-clicking opens files in their associated apps instead of just selecting them, etc.

I actually started liking single-click behavior because of all this MX KDE testing. Double-click is starting to annoy me now.
But if it so happens (no idea if this is the case) that 90% of computer users are used to double-click, it's probably more user-friendly to have double-click as default.

I also think that having separate view properties for each directory in Dolphin is confusing for most users (I always change it). Asqwerth said in post #59 he likes it and it's good the option is there but I guess it's mostly for people who have thought a bit about this, how they want to organize things etc., but having this as default leads to stuff like "hey, I put it on 'show hidden files' and now I can't see them anymore"
Just my thoughts

edit: one thing I'm missing with single-click behavior is that I can't rename the file by using a 'slow' double-click

[fladd]

I would assume a CD would be slow by virtue of the technology involved.

It is running in a VM, so from the CD ISO directly.

Interesting, there shouldn't be that much of a impact, but I only assume there might be some.
Is this with an SSD or good 'ol spinning rust HHD? I could see if with HDD depending on the location I suppose, if the drive is slower and or showing some age... but we all know that doesn't affect a SSD.

I haven't ran a live ISO in a VM in awhile outside of installing shortly after.

I wonder if anyone can take a look and test it soon. I'm a bit tied up right now, but can later this evening I think.

This is on a 2013 MacbookPro.

[SwampRabbit]

This is on a 2013 MacbookPro.

Running macOS, using VirtualBox to run MX or is something else installed on your MacbookPro?
What version of VirtualBox are you using?

Sorry if you already stated these.

[Gerson]

WIFI Internet stopped working after last update. The card works well on other distributions including Windows but, although it detects the available networks, it does not connect to the home wifi, when I use MX-KDE, it was working fine.
If I use MX-XFCE if there is connection.
EDIT:
For some strange reason I changed the network password to the login password but I fixed it.
It has "magic" MX-KDE JAJAJA

[fladd]

I now tried to install it in a VM, but installation fails at the very end with "Sorry, failed to create user directory!".

[tony37]

I have this slow behavior in VirtualBox too, host OS being MX KDE RC1, no problems there.

[fladd]

Changing the panel position to left in the MX tools seems to crash plasma shell, leaving you with just a cursor.

[tony37]

I now tried to install it in a VM, but installation fails at the very end with "Sorry, failed to create user directory!".

Doing a VirtualBox install went fine for me.
Maybe a stupid question, but does your virtual drive have enough space? If the space gets dynamically allocated, I've had it happen to me it doesn't allocate well, so I only use virtual drives with a fixed size.

RC1 is still a bit slow also on VBox install, but nothing extraordinary and it's a VBox after all, so...
Maybe a KDE thing.

What you also have on the live .iso after booting is some apt processes running like cnf-update-db

[fladd]

I now managed to install in a VM, but it is still extremely slow. I might try one more time booting from a USB stick into the live system. If an i7 with 8GB memory is not enough to run this, then KDE is probably not for me :-)

[sunrat]

If an i7 with 8GB memory is not enough to run this, then KDE is probably not for me :-)

I run KDE Plasma 5.17.5 Sid-based system on a Core2Duo from 2008 with 4GB RAM. It's quite responsive for everyday tasks. Same rig runs Buster/KDE in multiboot which is also quite snappy. Haven't tried MX-KDE on this one, only on my other rig - i5 6500 w/ 16GB RAM.
i7 w/ 8GB should be a speed demon.