So far, I have to say that my #KDE #Plasma6 experience sucks.

The theme I was using doesn’t work. The icons all suck. EventCalendar, which was synced to my Google calendar is dead. Vivaldi looks like crap. The panel at the bottom of my screen is floating up probably 100 pixels, leaving useless space below it, I can’t find a way to sink it to the actual bottom of the screen. I had increased all my font sizes because my eyes are bad, they have all shrunk and changing the font sizes and the interface percentage doesn’t fix it.

So far, not a happy experience @kde

  • Fleppensteyn@feddit.nl
    1·
    4 months ago

    People really don’t like to hear bad experiences, judging by the downvotes. But I agree it’s a really bad upgrade and it’s not ready for use at all.

    My experience with Plasma6 upgrade:

    • A new, but empty, floating panel was installed and my existing panels all got mangled up so I had to delete everything and make a new panel
    • SDDM doesn’t use my selected theme and displays a huge virtual keyboard that blocks half the screen (changing themes doesn’t help)
    • Icons are broken and ugly (changing icon sets didn’t help me), mainly because “missing” icons are replaced by black icons on a black background
    • Kvantum doesn’t work, so I can’t use my theme
    • Conky always stays on top and breaks the desktop
    • The screen goes on standby while watching movies
    • Win+Tab to get grid view no longer works
    • Terminal shows squares instead of unicode symbols
    • Shutdown/reboot/log off no longer works from the start menu, I have to manually run sudo shutdown
    • Scrollbar behavior got broken (at least this is fixed with a setting)
    • It’s trying to set Wayland to standard even though it still doesn’t work
    • Animations don’t work anymore
    • Hovering over a start menu entry (to open a menu) also opens a “plasmashell <2>” on the taskbar

    Don’t upgrade if you haven’t already.

      • Fleppensteyn@feddit.nl
        2·
        4 months ago

        You can compile Kvantum yourself with some cmake flag, that’s how I got it working. Some things look a little different and blur effect doesn’t work. So yeah, not really ready.