aussiejohn wrote:I am glad so many of our Mageia users are doing a rave over Mageia 6 because I cannot join them. It seems that the builders have decided to remove a lot of the customising capabilities we have been used to over the past years.
This means I cannot set-up my desktops ( yes multiple) with different backgrounds either as single photos or slide shows. I cannot any longer have different widgets on the different desktops either.
The widget menu is pointedly ugly. Despite my having installed many applications they are nowhere around to be seen in the Main menu.
I suspect that the builders of Ver.6 have reconstructed it for a particular type of user instead of the universal being it used to be.
Until I see some move back to customising capability again, I will have to stick with 5.1 till its death and then think about moving on to a different Linux OS which I will be sad about considering I have been using Mandrake right through the various iterations to the present time.
If anyone can suggest solutions to what I presently see as obstacles then please let me know.
Cheers. John
KDE5 or "plasma workframes5" is so far a big problem compared to KDE4. KDE was more function rich, but the new KDE environment is also built to incorporate Weyland graphics and is built around a new kwin version. They could have put in more work with plasma workframes 5, yes, please... It should have been at least as good as 4 or exceeding 4. But, let's give them some more time? What is it now, KDE version 5 is already 5.3?
In any case, we need to report these ISSUES to KDE directly. We need to make suggestions for improvements on KDE forums, and bringing back old favourite functions and settings. A seemeless switch between Weyland and X would be a bonus. Kwin is based on X and soon Weyland, while Plasma is based on QT. Jolla proved that Weyland and QT works just excellent.
The amount of functions in Weyland is minimal, and perhaps also contribute to reduce the already popular and known functions on X. This is not really acceptable unless we get a more functional Weyland version.
Another advantages is composite graphics directly on Weyland and working with that instead of old rigid X structures and additions and plugins and scripts. X is an excellent addition inside Weyland, an old proven technology that can be used for many different things on Weyland.
Imagine the lightness of a TV with just Weyland on, swapping between different X windows with a single function and layer on. Easy peacy.