KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace

Re:KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace by mikevm on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @01:58PM (#7745103)

Not yet. Is it worth it?

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Re:KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace by miloshadzic on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @02:03PM (#7745149)

It is the most polished Linux desktop IMO.

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Re:KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace by Arnor on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:08PM (#7746044)

I thought Gnome 3 wasted a lot of screen real estate. I recently tried going back to XFCE and found I missed Unity. They dragged me kicking and screaming, but I've come to like it afterall.

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Re:KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace by andor on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @07:16PM (#7747068)

I thought Gnome 3 wasted a lot of screen real estate

Fonts are quite large by default. I usually set the font scaling factor to 0.9 with gnome-tweak-tool, this also reduces the size of the top panel.

Since 3.10, the tendency for apps is to save space by placing buttons directly in the window title bars. For example, this is what Nautilus looks like in 3.12:

http://imgur.com/3a4zIfQ

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Re:KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace by rthomas6 on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:21PM (#7746138)

Have you tried Cinnamon? It also uses gtk3 but it's a more traditional layout. Cinnamon desktop is my favorite out of the desktops I've tried.

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Re:KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace by miloshadzic on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @05:41PM (#7746611)

Probably all of the options waste a lot of screen by default. Elementary would be an exception. I was thinking more about just general polish.

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