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Re: MX+KDE=heaven!
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 8:41 am
by subluminal
MX KDE would be great !!! Pretty much the only thing I dislike about MX is that it has no offcially supported KDE. I'm using Dolphin, Krusader , Kate, Konsole ,Yakuake, Nomacs (already was installed with XFCE) , Digikam, SMplayer, Qbittorrent , all QT apps and all but the SMplayer , Qbittorrent and Nomacs are KDE apps which integrate just that little bit better in a full (or better yet minimal) KDE Plasma Desktop. Also had a little trouble with XFCE compositor but that was easy enough to fix. Not to mention every QT app looks a bit funky in XFCE or any other GTK based DEs like Gnome or Budgie. But I'm biased towards QT apps and KDE in general so it could be that.
Looking forward to KDE MX in the future. Hopefully not too distant future. :)
Re: MX+KDE=heaven!
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:00 am
by uncle mark
If you guys decided to offer and support a KDE release, that would bring me back into the fold and I'd be able to offer a lot of feedback and perhaps a little bit of help.
Uh oh. That may have just queered it.
Re: MX+KDE=heaven!
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:18 am
by asqwerth
Like richb said, one issue might be that it does not appear to be possible on buster base to have a newer plasma version than 5.14. Certain improvements in plasma or its related apps were introduced in later versions.
Re: MX+KDE=heaven!
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:21 am
by richb
uncle mark wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:00 am
If you guys decided to offer and support a KDE release, that would bring me back into the fold and I'd be able to offer a lot of feedback and perhaps a little bit of help.
Uh oh. That may have just queered it.
Stop the presses!!!!
Re: MX+KDE=heaven!
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:43 am
by Jerry3904
Time to switch distros...
Re: MX+KDE=heaven!
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:26 am
by andyprough
Norbert Preining released the KDE 5.19.2 packages for Debian a few days ago:
https://www.preining.info/blog/2020/06/ ... or-debian/
I'll upgrade my MX19.2, see if anything is broken. Could anyone tell me which MX qt apps will not work with the newer version of qt? I couldn't find any of the MX tools not working last time.
Re: MX+KDE=heaven!
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 11:39 am
by uncle mark
Jerry3904 wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:43 am
Time to switch distros...
<sniffle>
I'm touched.
</sniffle>
Re: MX+KDE=heaven!
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 11:44 am
by richb
andyprough wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:26 am
Norbert Preining released the KDE 5.19.2 packages for Debian a few days ago:
https://www.preining.info/blog/2020/06/ ... or-debian/
I'll upgrade my MX19.2, see if anything is broken. Could anyone tell me which MX qt apps will not work with the newer version of qt? I couldn't find any of the MX tools not working last time.
That will be interesting.
Re: MX+KDE=heaven!
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 12:34 pm
by baldyeti
andyprough wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:26 amI'll upgrade my MX19.2, see if anything is broken.
beware, these packages are meant for debian unstable (sid)
Re: MX+KDE=heaven!
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 12:35 pm
by asqwerth
andyprough wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:26 am
Norbert Preining released the KDE 5.19.2 packages for Debian a few days ago:
https://www.preining.info/blog/2020/06/ ... or-debian/
I'll upgrade my MX19.2, see if anything is broken. Could anyone tell me which MX qt apps will not work with the newer version of qt? I couldn't find any of the MX tools not working last time.
Could you test nomacs, ksnip, featherpad, virtualbox, clementine as well after you upgrade? I believe those are all Qt apps.
We have to consider other Qt-using programs in Stable repo, not just the MX apps themselves.