KDE papercuts love

[josephk at email.it]

Hi and thank you for providing us great software. The leap from KDE SC 4
serie is giant and in the good direction imho.


I took some time to point out the little quirks I found using your latest
software on Arch Linux (Intel Broadwell).


I own a micro-blog at www.archkde.blogspot.it if you wanna check out.


 


One reproducible plasma crasher:


- in a pulseaudio system, if mpd played directly to alsa hw output to an
external sound card, entering plasma-pa mixer crashes the whole
plasma. 


 


One bug:


- ALT+Left mouse button moves panel editing interface (like a window)


 


Eight paper-cuts:


- probably an option in Task Manager to "not show text" is better then a
separated "Icon Only" widget


- "Air" and "Oxygen" Plasma themes are very, very low quality than "Breeze".
I'd rather remove them.


- default application color scheme is not Breeze. I don't understand what
"Current" and "Predifined" are there for: confusing.


- monospace font defaults to ugly Oxygen, in Arch it is even an hard dep.
I'd use Noto Mono instead.


- There's still "Glass" emoticon style, which is inferior to the new Breeze
one. I'd push for a standard uniform experience as much as possible, leaving
the user to download and install an alternative style if needed.


- I hope the default startup beahvior will be "empty session" and that we
will have a logout interface with an option to enable saving apps state


- me (and my parents) much prefer Kicker than Kickoff because it's more
intuitive and easy.


- panel resizing is triky, an option to auto-resize I think would be optimal
instead


- (probably the desktop toolbox should be hidden by default, God knows :)


 


Big Grief: Applications.


- I miss a KF5 port of Skanlite, K3B and Okular, while I happily gave up the
over-cluttered Ktorrent for Transmission-qt5.


- I really suggest adopting MPD Cantata which can be compiled with KDE
integration, with beautiful QT5 interface and the great audio workhorse
which is MPD. I'm an audiophile and I can just recommend this definitive app
to everyone.


- For video there's the simple but super powerful MPV, which is actively
developed in QT5, it's full-featured, has working hw accel.. it just needs a
baloo widget and a config menu.


- I don't see applications (developers) using Phonon except from few old KDE
ones. Two backends, the recommended one is not even feature complete and
it's based on a heavy third party app. Why not using directly gstreamer and
ditch Phonon and its code completely? I think that using the most powerful,
estabilished, trans-desktop software like mpd, mpv and transmission will
free up resources for other projects and additionaly enforce those core
projects.


 


Thank you, these were my 2 cents.


Cheers,


Alex T




 
 
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