[kwlug-disc] Kubuntu 16.04 Questions

[B.S.]

On 03/16/2017 05:23 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>
> Yes, the 16.04 KDE and/or Plasma issues look much like the 2010-ish
> problems with kubuntu. Indeed they were very painful. I almost ditched KDE
> then, but the following LTS release solved these issues. Not anymore, hence
> my jumping ship.
>
> The good news for you is that Ubuntu announced extended support beyond
> April for 12.04. Not sure if that includes Kubuntu as well, or just Ubuntu.
> Nor do I know if this is for paying customers or everyone.

Interesting. Thank you.

However, happened to apply kde backports one day [xorg/lts-trusty] 
(ostensibly driven by hinted at kate 'improvements' / plugins / etc), 
then went through excruciating pain to get where I already was 
pre-reboot. Probably stemming from nouveau-era X migration pains - 
ultimately solved by adding +xinerama to xserverrc in /etc/X11/xinit. 
But it took far too long to get there / figure that out - the desktop, 
thunderbird, etc., down for the duration.

That experience has got me thinking that I'd better get on to the next 
GUI versions sooner rather than later, as things move along / bugs get 
fixed - which won't be / will be left behind if I don't bite the bullet 
and migrate sooner, at my own pace, rather than suddenly.

And i386 support having gone the way of the dodo. 'Your browser is no 
longer supported' gets tiresome after a while. Rendering my KDE Pentium 
4's 'useless'.

---

As a result of this thread reviewed wikipedia's entries on KDE, 
framework, plasma, etc. Seems konqueror development is alive again, 
which surprised me.