Re: So I have a Plasma 5 desktop!

[David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>]

Installing the kwin stuff stopped the immediate crashes.
Could not see any text except some highlighted stuff and pieces of menus. Go to 
system settings, somehow, and set the compositor to xrender. This got 
everything painted again.

Now of course, had to start over. Some pieces, widgets, are missing, even 
thought they were explicitly installed.

Icon themes have missing pieces, and size-related flaws.

But ... Plasma 5 is up and running and (mostly) quite nicely!