Re: improving the UX with the default KDE installation

[Shawn Sörbom <shawn@sorbom.com>]

On Saturday, April 22, 2017 1:07:09 PM PDT fradev wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> On 25/03/17 18:50:08 CEST, fradev  wrote:
> > Here are the dependencies of task-kde-desktop, on the right my
> > suggestions.
> > 
> > task-kde-desktop
> > 
> >   Depends: tasksel
> >   Depends: task-desktop
> >   Depends: kde-standard
> >   Depends: sddm
> >   Recommends: kdeaccessibility        --> change to: Suggests
> >   Recommends: gnome-orca              --> change to: Suggests
> >   Recommends: k3b                     --> change to: Suggests
> >   Recommends: k3b-i18n                --> change to: Suggests
> >   Recommends: plasma-nm
> >   Recommends: kdesudo
> >   Recommends: libreoffice-kde
> >   Recommends: apper                   --> substitute with: synaptic
> >   Recommends: gimp
> >   Recommends: firefox-esr
> >   Recommends: libreoffice
> >   Recommends: libreoffice-help-en-us
> >   Recommends: mythes-en-us
> >   Recommends: hunspell-en-us
> >   Recommends: hyphen-en-us
> >   Recommends: system-config-printer
> >   Recommends: dragonplayer            --> substitute with: vlc
> 
> (original message here [1])
> 
> I didn't received many feedbacks about this and I'm thinking to send a bug
> report (wishlist) proposing the changes highlighted above.
> 
> What concerns me the most here is apper. Summarising:
> - apper should be dead upstream
> - plasma-discover is too bugged to be used as a replacement
> - update-notifications don't seem to work with both (at least for me)
> - what about muon?
> - synaptic seems to be the only sane alternative but doesn't provide
>   update-notifications
> - pk-update-icon provides update-notifications but depends on
> gnome-packagekit
> 
> Despite the integration with the Plasma desktop I think it is essential to
> provide (also) a good graphical package manager with update-notifications.
> What do you think about it?
> 
> Francesco
> 
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2017/03/msg00041.html

On the subject of what to change, could you also consider replacing akregator 
with quiterss? Akregator is just broken these days. I have been using quiterss 
for several months and it seems to work pretty well by contrast.