On 10 July 2015 at 09:59, Basil Chupin <blchupin@iinet.net.au> wrote:
I installed Tumbleweed on a laptop (Lenovo T530) using the release 20150123, and TW has been updated regularly with the latest one performed a day ago.
I now have some questions about Tumbleweed and the way it will morph into openSUSE 42.
It will not. Tumbleweed and Leap are two different distributions Tumbleweed - Rolling Release - Everything updated all the time Leap - Stable Release - Patches all the time, version updates every release, consisting of sources from both SUSE Linux Enterprise and the openSUSE Community
Question 1.
I have always used KDE as my preferred desktop but noticed that a while back a wannabe-Window10-lookalike version called Plasma5 came on the scene and was automatically installed in Tumbleweed.
However, while there is the option to boot into either KDE and Plasma5 (as well as a couple other DEs - XFCE and something called Custom, whatever that is!), I cannot tell the difference between KDE and the Plasma5 environments.
Is this correct and is this the intended result when Plasma5 was foisted on Tumbleweed?
Correct, our KDE team decided to remove KDE 4 and replace it with Plasma 5 in Tumbleweed I do not know what they intend to put into Leap 42.1, but I assume it will be Plasma 5
Question 2.
In the normal KDE environment - such as in oS 13.2 - I create 8 virtual desktops ("panels" if you like, or whatever) and I have a different wallpaper for each of these virtual desktops.
I now cannot achieve having different wallpapers in Tumbleweed with this Plasma-Blasta - one wallpaper is assigned to all the desktops.
Is this the norm or is there some secret tweak that one needs to make in order to achieve what I want (different images for each of the 8 desktops)?
I think this is a question that's best left to the KDE team. They can answer here, but might be better to try and reach out to them at opensuse-kde@opensuse.org or in the opensuse-kde IRC channel
Question 3.
What has happened to the nice widgets/icons/whatever which are used in oS 13.2 but which are now simple-looking "stick figures" in Tumbleweed's Plasma-Blasta?
Are these "stick figures" going to get some fleshing so as to look like something not resembling a child's drawing or is this the way of the future for oS 42?
See my answer to Question 2
Question 4.
While I have never been a fan of anything other than KDE desktop environment I thought that I would try out GNOME DE now that Plasma-Blasta look like a Windows10 wannabe.
However, I cannot install the Gnome files. I start up YaST and try and install the Gnome rpms - but nothing happens and I am stuck with something called KDE which is no longer KDE but looks and acts exactly as Plasma-Blasta (although XFCE is still available at boot-up time).
So, what is a girl supposed to do when GNOME desktop is required for look-see purposes?
I think you're doing something wrong - I know lots of people who install multiple desktop environments in openSUSE
Question 5.
Plasma-Blasta has drastically altered the various menus form the way the menus are shown in the real KDE desktop environment. The menus in a way are a hybrid between XFCE and something which the cat dragged in - but anyway.....
Question: will this way of presenting the various menus now becoming permanent and is what will be in oS 42 or are there plans to create sensible menus and bring back some logic into their contents?
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