Multiple DEs on one install~ Plasma-Gnome(Zorin's version hopefully)-Unity? ~Sddm Desktop switching not appearing.

f33dm3bits said:
Well that's how opensource software works. You have new projects that start and old ones that die, it doesn't happen to Gnome extensions only. Example: Plenty of Linux distributions that died and new ones that came after that.
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Like Mythbuntu a looong time ago. It's a shame- most of those projects were very interesting!
 


Rocketing-warp9 said:
Like Mythbuntu a looong time ago. It's a shame- most of those projects were very interesting!
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Projects sometimes get forked if a well known project dies or part of the user base disagrees with the direction a project is going.
 
Like Forks of Cent OS?
 
f33dm3bits said:
When you update to a new major version of Gnome all the extensions that don't have the new major Gnome version defined in them are disabled, it's not the same thing as breaking.
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f33dm3bits said:
When switching QT versions seems like KDE widgets need to be updated as well. I would think that's similar.
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That's the same with GTK, natural with UI evolution.

GNOME has indeed completely obsoleted their extension management a few releases back. None worked out the box anymore, as they also withdrew the default way to install extensions, switching to a browser-based extension. I remember trying all available replacemnts for a simple tiling-mode I used sometime on one desktop when it happened. I ended up disabling all extensions on that desktop. It was a right mess.
 
f33dm3bits said:
You can't compare a full DE to something like image editor. If you want to make a fair comparison than it should be Gnome and KDE Plasma comparison since they are both DE's. Isn't KDE Plasma 5 built on QT5 and KDE Plasma 6 built on QT6. So it seems that when the KDE Plasma version went from 5 to 6 widgets needed to be updated as well, I would think that's similar.
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KDE doesn't have any extensions and widgets are not extensions, but even if you count them like they are, they're still maintained by KDE devs so it just works, I don't use them so don't know.

f33dm3bits said:
Are those third-party or official extensions, from what I can see those are official plugins.
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Yes GIMP extensions are mostly maintained upstream, and that's a big plus vs when community maintains it, that's my point,
GIMP is just one example, but VSCode is even better example, so many extensions (mostly by community) but they don't break, I guess because of solid extension framework.

f33dm3bits said:
It's up to the extension developers to update their extension on time during the beta releases and test them so that they are ready for the next major Gnome version.
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This is just wrong, you can't expect everybody to update everything, so there will always be breakages.

f33dm3bits said:
guess we should get back on topic cause this might be confusing for OP as we've strayed off a bit ;)
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yes. enough gnome talk :cool: I'll never embrace it no matter what happens anyway.
 
Thank you all! now it is time to wrestle with Vbox (OI- no where near what I remember on 22.04)~ Gnome and plasma are both installed. Drivers are being a pain (Problems with EFI Driver signing)~ Getting on it soon!
Thank you All!
 
Nope! Something crashed while loading any VM.-both GNOME and Plasma.

Reinstalled the packages and ran that Cmd.. still nothing.
 

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Both VMs set for Linux and windows- on two separate accounts.
 
Yep. Installed and signed.
 
But secure boot is enabled, and I don't know how that can affect it- or how the Surface-Kernel changes things.
 
Can't help much now. On a small phone screen. But you using Windows as a host with virtualbox or using Linux distribution as a host with virtual box?
 
I am using VBox on Linux. I have just decided W11 was not working for me- and I got plasma to a point of liking..
Still keep older versions of windows around for UI-reasons ( I still like Win8 and Vista's UI). I have installed through KDE's store. (Tried APT through Terminal-did not like that!)
 
f33dm3bits said:
Can't help much now. On a small phone screen. But you using Windows as a host with virtualbox or using Linux distribution as a host with virtual box?
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Thank you for helping even on that screen! I know it's complicated.
Will do!
 
CaffeineAddict said:
KDE doesn't have any extensions and widgets are not extensions,
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Unless you find a major difference between "extensions" and "plugins" (I don't), then KDE certainly does have Extensions.

The following

https://apps.kde.org/dolphin/

mentions both extensions and plugins. I have used them from time to time.

Cheers

Wizard
 
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