Comment # 5 on bug 1174566 from Nick Dordea

Hello  Fabian,

I proceeded with upgrading my machine from leap 15.1 to leap 15.2 via DVD .
The upgrade lasted approx 3 hours without any incidents. The machine booted
fine and the plasma started as usual.
The only issue was the larger spacing between icons. I am using the virtual
desktops.
I tried to fix it with config desktop. 
The old icons etting was "small" + "medium" + 2lines so 
I could not go to lower size than small.  

After some research in internet I got some directions on customizing the
FoldetView.qml cellWidth and cellHeight values were changed by  -10 (height) 
and -5 (width). The results are better.

I have to think to a solution of "maintaining"  FolderView.qml whenever the
maintenance updates it.
Also, I noticed that the virtual desktop definition was changed. 
The total number of desktops was removed.
The only "user option " available is Nr-Rows.  
Now the user must use the "new" add option to add desktops !?!
It is strange that old simpler solutions are changed with new solutions that
require more user---error prone---interventions.

I worked 25+ years as MVS/DB2/IMS systems programmer and the idea was to make
any change backward compatible. The regression testing was [almost] mandatory
to make sure that the old procedures/jobs/etc. don't suffer.

I'm wondering why so many changes in Linux---more specifically in KDE--- are
not backward compatible.

Based on zypper lifecycle info ... opensuse 15 has 2 more upgrades end of 2021
and end of 2022.

Bottom line, the risk to upgrade to 15.2 was worthful .  
The machine is upgraded at 15.2 level, the plasma-shell starts, and the desktop
is in good shape.

As far as I am concerned this ticket can be closed.

Thank you for your help. 

Regards,

Nick