A few days ago I upgraded from 14.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS. I waited this long because Plasma 5 appeared unfinished when I tried Kubuntu version 15.10 a year ago.
The upgrade finished with errors and I had to spend several hours with apt-get before the system could boot properly into KDE. I managed to update most of the what I use and can now login and do some work, but many problems remain. The settings refused to open at first but now I can open them. The apps started with kdesudo were missing all of the icons but managed to correct this.
I changed the theme back to Oxygen because, in my opinion, it looks much better than Breeze and is more usable.
Here are some of the problems that I can't get rid off:
I hope someone can help me with these annoying problems.
There are more problems here (the whole Plasma 5 feels like it's some half-baked beta release), but I'll wait and see if I can correct them myself.
Thanks.
The upgrade finished with errors and I had to spend several hours with apt-get before the system could boot properly into KDE. I managed to update most of the what I use and can now login and do some work, but many problems remain. The settings refused to open at first but now I can open them. The apps started with kdesudo were missing all of the icons but managed to correct this.
I changed the theme back to Oxygen because, in my opinion, it looks much better than Breeze and is more usable.
Here are some of the problems that I can't get rid off:
- Kickoff items not visible
I can see that the items are there when I open KDE Menu Editor and the "Hidden Entry" checkbox is not checked, yet when I click on Kickoff button and navigate to where the item is located it's not there. - Recent documents tab in Kickoff is empty
The History tab is completely empty. Yet it does appear to track some of the recent documents because when I start typing in the search field on top of the menu it does bring up some of the recent documents. - Dolphin incredibly slow opening folders with many items
Dolphin has become extremely slow. When opening a folder in "details view mode" that contains many items it slowly checks the contents of each subfolder. And in the meantime it almost freezes. Even if I go back to a previous folder in the hierarchy it does it again, even though it did it only a few seconds ago. Very irritating. - No preview on GTK themes
In Trusty when I chose a GTK theme in the system settings there was a preview. Now I can't do it. The themes are there and I can change them yet there is no way for me to preview it. Packages "kde-config-gtk-style" and "kde-config-gtk-style-preview" are both installed yet no preview is showing in system settings. - Notification panel too huge
System notifications result in a huuugee panel in the lower right corner that obscures everything. - Wallet at every login asks for gpg decryption passphrase
At first it was asking me to create a gpg keys. Now I've done it and at every login the wallet app asks me for the passphrase. - Screensavers and lock screen
What happened to all the pretty screensavers? And why doesn't the lockscreen get activated automatically when the desktop's been idle for some time? If I activate it manually it does ask me for my login password when I try to get back but if I leave the machine for some time the lockscreen doesn't activate -- it just turns the monitor off and I can get back into desktop as soon as I move the mouse.
I hope someone can help me with these annoying problems.
There are more problems here (the whole Plasma 5 feels like it's some half-baked beta release), but I'll wait and see if I can correct them myself.
Thanks.
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