On 11/03/2018 06:09 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
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> Regarding Plasma/KDE in Devuan, you may also consider subscribing to
> debian-kde mailing list, at least for reading it. Many of the things you
> write here have been discussed there already months, if not more than a
> years ago.

That is a good idea. Thank you.

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>> BTW, the upgrade was a disaster. I had to reinstall. I may be alone in
>> having an Debian to jessie to ascii with KDE. It is not worth
>> upgrading - just reinstall.

I did forget one thing in my original email that might be a Devuan only
problem:

The shutdown menu in KDE now has suspend and hibernate options. However,
they only appear after restarting the display manager. I was guessing it
had something to do with dbus not starting early enough. However,
changing the order of the init scripts did not fix it. I had to put a
few lines in rc.local to restart sddm two times with a few second delay.
That was ugly and I also wondered what else was not working as well as
it could. So I then did the clean install.

>
> I upgraded on Debian just fine. This laptop is still on Debian, so I am
> very keen to hear how Plasma 5 works for you on Devuan, as I consider to
> switch it as I did with my server virtual machines. The machine is
> critical for my work, so it has to work reliable. That said I am even on
> Debian Unstable and I consider to switch to Devuan Ceres.
>

That is interesting. Devuan ascii /w KDE works fine from what I
experienced. I use it on my main travel workstation running mostly
kdevelop. I do not see any real improvement over 4. So I would delay the
upgrade for as long as possible, which is my plan for my other workstation.

Simon