Plasma 5 on Kubuntu 14.10‏

[Rog132]

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Plasma 5 on Kubuntu 14.10

Rohan Garg
Thu Jun 26 13:18:11 UTC 2014

## Description

Plasma 5 is an evolutionary release of the popular plasma desktop
workspace. Plasma 5 runs on top of a fully hardware-accelerated
graphics stack,
using Qt 5, QML 2 and an OpenGL(-ES) scenegraph to deliver graphics
onto the users' screens. This allows the rendering to be faster, more
efficient, less power-hungry and enables a smoother user experience by
freeing up resources of the system processor. Plasma 5 completes
the migration of the workspace to Qt Quick that has begun in earlier releases.

Kubuntu would like to ship an ISO that provides the Plasma 5
experience while also shipping the regular KDE Software Collection
with Plasma 1 ISO,
so that users may be able to choose between a tested stable system and
a newer system still in heavy development.

## The plan

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[GreyGeek]

Sounds neat!

Once the software matures upstream, we plan to push the packages into
Ubuntu 15.04 once the archive opens, and then eventually switch to
Plasma 5 as the default desktop environment at some point in the future.

Until such a change happens, we would still like users to try out
Plasma 5 and provide feedback, which is why we would like a separate
ISO to be made from packages from a PPA.

So it look like we'll know when the game begins when we see a URL linking the plasma 5 ISO download.
I will be creating a new partition in which to install this release and test it.

[blackpaw]

Anyone had any luck installing the latest Kubuntu Plasma 5 ISO in virtualbox?

For me the LiveISO boots fine and installs, but on reboot I just get a black screen.

[ronw]

I think it was DoYouKubuntu who posted the workaround in another thread: Hold Shift to get the grub menu, then select advanced options, recovery mode, resume.

That's worked for me for the last few boots.

[blackpaw]

Thanks. I also found that hiting F12 to activate the Virtual Box boot selector, then choosing "1. Hard Disk" worked.

After that I changed the Storage Controller to SCSI, type LsiLogic. That worked, it now boots with no issues.

[blackpaw]

Let me take that back it worked once.

[millusions]

it didnt happen if there is no screenshot

[molecule-eye]

Good, there will at least be a Plasma 5 version. So, has anyone tested it and how is it looking? They only have about a month left to get the kinks ironed out.