CentOS - Nov 2018 - Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> I use KDE and they need to, quality is lacking, every time I boot up I
> get to discover where my icons will be located (and this has been going
> on through at least a couple of recvisions).  Locking doesn't help,
even
> making the file I thought contained the positions immutable didn't
help.
> I'm going to have to look at Trinity.
>
Odd, I've never had that problem. On the other hand, I *really* dislike
gnome. I think their target is 16 yr olds.

    mark

Interesting, I'm going to have to try something based on your comment,
although I've been through a few distro releases /home has remained the
same.


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From: CentOS <centos-bounces at centos.org> on behalf of mark <m.roth
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Sent: Friday, November 2, 2018 3:19 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [CentOS] Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By
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Leroy Tennison wrote:
> I use KDE and they need to, quality is lacking, every time I boot up I
> get to discover where my icons will be located (and this has been going
> on through at least a couple of recvisions).  Locking doesn't help,
even
> making the file I thought contained the positions immutable didn't
help.
> I'm going to have to look at Trinity.
>
Odd, I've never had that problem. On the other hand, I *really* dislike
gnome. I think their target is 16 yr olds.

    mark

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On 11/2/18 3:19 PM, mark wrote:
> Leroy Tennison wrote:
>> I use KDE and they need to, quality is lacking, every time I boot up I
>> get to discover where my icons will be located (and this has been going
>> on through at least a couple of recvisions).  Locking doesn't help,
even
>> making the file I thought contained the positions immutable didn't
help.
>> I'm going to have to look at Trinity.
>>
> Odd, I've never had that problem. On the other hand, I *really* dislike
> gnome. I think their target is 16 yr olds.

It all depends on how you arrange it and what extensions you use. I have
a very Mac-link setup on Gnome.

> 

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-- Steve

Le 02/11/2018 ? 21:19, mark a ?crit?:
> Odd, I've never had that problem. On the other hand, I *really* dislike
> gnome. I think their target is 16 yr olds.
My reaction to GNOME 3 has been roughly the same as with systemd. At
first, I hated it with a passion. Then I saw everyone else seemed to use
it. So I started to read the docs and experiment a little bit. And now
I'm using it on a daily basis, and to my bewilderment, I've grown to
like it.

  * https://blog.microlinux.fr/gnome-centos/

  * https://blog.microlinux.fr/poste-de-travail-gnome-centos-7/

Sad to hear the news about KDE though. My custom version of CentOS 7 and
KDE 4 is running nicely on a few installations for clients:

  * https://blog.microlinux.fr/poste-de-travail-centos-7/

The only real problem I see with KDE is their frantic release schedule.
Six months seems to be "LTS" for the average KDE developer.

Cheers,

Niki

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On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 19:22, Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote:
> My reaction to GNOME 3 has been roughly the same as with systemd. At
> first, I hated it with a passion. Then I saw everyone else seemed to use
> it. So I started to read the docs and experiment a little bit. And now
> I'm using it on a daily basis, and to my bewilderment, I've grown
to
> like it.
>
>   * https://blog.microlinux.fr/gnome-centos/
>
>   * https://blog.microlinux.fr/poste-de-travail-gnome-centos-7/
>
Thanks for the readings - as someone that recently moved from 10+ years on
Ubuntu, I quite liked Unity. I'm finding Gnome a little brain dead in some
obvious-to-me-why-not-everyone-else areas.

For me, the saddest thing about this announcement is that I *still* think
Amarok is the best media player available, even if I've not used it for a
while. Installing the entire KDE base for one program is just too heavy. It
really is streets ahead of the other media players though.

Cheers
L.

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On 11/03/2018 01:22 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Le 02/11/2018 ? 21:19, mark a ?crit :
>> Odd, I've never had that problem. On the other hand, I *really*
dislike
>> gnome. I think their target is 16 yr olds.
>
> My reaction to GNOME 3 has been roughly the same as with systemd. At
> first, I hated it with a passion. Then I saw everyone else seemed to use
> it. So I started to read the docs and experiment a little bit. And now
> I'm using it on a daily basis, and to my bewilderment, I've grown
to
> like it.
What really did me in when I was trying to like it, the scroll bars were 
gone and I was told they could be put back in place with configuration. 
So I tried to find the configuration option and couldn't find it. Then I 
was told that I had to hand-code CSS to get them back.

I installed MATE the very next day.

I did briefly try it again a few month ago and I just can't figure it 
out. It's like it is trying to be a tablet OS or something, but I'm not 
using a touchscreen, I'm using a mouse and keyboard.