Don't upgrade to 15.04 just yet, like I did

[davew1957]

Yes,
I install kde5, HATE the widows metro look, and I have had multiple problems with 15.04
reinstallled 14.04LTS

[SteveRiley]

I installed the packages plasma-theme-oxygen, oxygen-cursor-theme, and kwin-decoration-oxygen (that last package requires the Kubuntu backports PPA). Then in System Settings I changed the appropriate items in Workspace Theme and Application Style. I now have a desktop that almost looks like full Oxygen. It's so much more pleasing to the eyes. Shades of varying grays rather than screaming white, and scroll bars that are back to being functional without looking like hugely long black or blue stripes.

[xennex81]

I am puzzled where you see a resemblance between Win8's Metro and Kubuntu's Plasma5...

I think he meant not wanting to use 8.1 either.

[xennex81]

I installed the packages plasma-theme-oxygen and oxygen-cursor-theme. Then in System Settings I changed the appropriate items in Workspace Theme and Application Style. I now have a desktop that almost looks like full Oxygen. It's so much more pleasing to the eyes. Shades of varying grays rather than screaming white, and scroll bars that are back to being functional without looking like hugely long black or blue stripes.

Many thumbs up!

[marco07]

I installed the packages plasma-theme-oxygen and oxygen-cursor-theme. Then in System Settings I changed the appropriate items in Workspace Theme and Application Style. I now have a desktop that almost looks like full Oxygen. It's so much more pleasing to the eyes. Shades of varying grays rather than screaming white, and scroll bars that are back to being functional without looking like hugely long black or blue stripes.

Is this done in 14.04 or 15.04?
Thanks!

[schnelle]

Is this done in 14.04 or 15.04?
Thanks!

In 15.04.

Oxygen theme was default in 14.04.

[NickStone]

If you want a more stable experience take a look at Manjaro https://manjaro.github.io/Manjaro-0.8.13-pre2-released/

[Spadge]

The list of broken things is pretty impressive. Dolphin barely works at all, and the confusion between .kde/share/apps/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml and .local/share/user-places.xbel is just ... confusing for all concerned.

Then there's the problem with adding Places to it, that doesn't work. Changing order of items in Places doesn't work.

I don't know if I'm the only one who has the problem with duplicated/repeated items in Places, but it's annoying. I just cleared them all out of the above files, but rebooted so now I have two of everything again. Still, it's better than the six of everything and growing I had before I cleared them out. I'm thinking of changing Dolphin's name to Lintilla.

Auto-mounting drives on login is no longer possible. We're back to manually editing fstab for that, but then that mounts them for everyone. So that's annoying.

The new plasma thing feels unready for general use, and it makes the whole OS feel like a step back in consumer-desktop-readiness.

I know it'll eventually catch up.

[LinkBot]

Bug #1422469: Dolphin won't keep the folder shortcuts on Kubuntu 15.04 with Plasma 5 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpa...s/+bug/1422469

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...ay/008511.html

kde4libs (4:4.14.6-4~ubuntu3.1) vivid; urgency=medium
* Fix dolphin losing places boomarks.
+ Add patch
upstream_Remove-bookmarks-syncing-from-KFilePlacesModel-and-u.patch
making the fileplacesmodel only use the new user-places.xbel and not
attempt to keep it synced with a legacy file. LP: #1422469

Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 11:19:29 +0200

[Spadge]

Bug #1422469: Dolphin won't keep the folder shortcuts on Kubuntu 15.04 with Plasma 5 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpa...s/+bug/1422469

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/vi...ay/008511.html

That's half the bug. And two weeks ago. It's not trickled down anywhere I'll see it yet though.

Thanks.

[Spadge]

Having to log into the kwallet after logging into the OS is annoying as well.

Bug #1451865: Kwallet is no longer automatically unlocked on login - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...a/+bug/1451865

[richb]

Places in Dolphin are working fine for me.

[Qqmike]

Lots of varied experiences with 15.04. I'm very happy with my 14.04, no intent to switch yet. But I did have an experience with 15.04. Doing some experiments, re-booting many, many times between HDDs and Kubuntu 14.04 and 15.04, doing the same tasks in each, lots of file management and accessing drives and partitions, and for sure, something is a bit amiss about 15.04. I didn't document this as I am focused on another issue (UEFI booting), but the side-by-side comparison booting quickly between the 14.04 and 15.04 was noticeable. Not so smooth in 15.04, strange line-drawn icons in LibreOffice Writer, unpredictable device notifier, problems mounting & unmounting from it, Kate (right-click Open With Kate in Dolphin) would not open from either a user prompt or from a root prompt (I ended up opening text in LibreOffice Writer), Dolphin rather flaky in several ways I can't recall at the moment--just not all there, fighting me, unpredictable behavior accessing devices and files. Personally, I didn't find the look-and-feel to be right or comfortable or appealing, but I'm not too hung up on all this business of themes and such anyway, I just "felt" better in 14.04 versus 15.04. I'm pooped at the moment, that's all I can easily recall, been doing booting experiments for several days. I know it will all be fixed and will evolve into a great OS and the devs have worked hard on it and are working hard on it. They sure as h*ll produced a great 14.04!

[SeijiSensei]

I've looked at 15.04 in a VirtualBox VM and didn't see any compelling reasons to switch to KDE5. I'll wait until 16.04 and give it another try then.

[oshunluvr]

Places in Dolphin are working fine for me.

Odd because for me, additions to Places do not save (still), however IMO describing Dolphin as "barely works at all" is a gross over-statement.