Re: Safe to upgrade?
On Thursday 10 December 2015 6:19:12 PM Javier Juan Albarracín wrote:
> El Jueves, 10 de diciembre de 2015 10:16:03 Tim Folger escribió:
> > On Thursday 10 December 2015 9:03:33 AM Dominique Dumont wrote:
> > > On Sunday 06 December 2015 15:34:59 you wrote:
> > > > What's the state of plasma 5 now in testing? Is it generally safe to
> > > > upgrade?
> > >
> > > I use plasma5 from sid on a desktop and a laptop.
> > >
> > > This is fairly stable now and usable.
> > >
> > > Suspend and resume now work most of the time. This point was hugely
> > > improved in the last weeks.
> > >
> > > I still have some issues when switching on and off an external screen
> > > (the
> > > laptop is 1920x1080 and the screen is 1920x1200).
> > > When the external screen is switched off, the layout is readjusted for
> > > the
> > > smaller screen, but the bottom menu bar is lost until I switch the
> > > external
> > > screen back on (or restart sddm).
> > >
> > > Currently, the major pain point for me is the missing digikam..
> > >
> > > Hope this helps
> >
> > Thanks, Dominique. That's good to know. Do you happen to use Network
> > Manager? I started using it for the first time on my new laptop running
> > debian testing and kde 4.14.2, and it has been working really well. For
> > years I had been configuring my wireless settings in
> > /etc/network/interfaces. Network Manager makes things much easier. I'm
> > hoping it would still work if I upgrade to Plasma 5.
> >
> > Tim
>
> Yes, it works. You should edit the file
> /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and set to true the "managed" line:
>
> [main]
> plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
>
> [ifupdown]
> managed=true
>
>
> Javier
Excellent. Thanks, Javier. I think I'll try upgrading my laptop. if that goes
well I'll upgrade my desktop too.
Tim
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