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On Montag 24 August 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: |
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> szalkai@×××××××.net schrieb: |
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> > Now that this exciting little flamewar has finished, and everybody is |
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> > friends again :), could you Duncan please give some examples of major |
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> > breakage in KDE4? |
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> I'm not Duncan but I have 5 reasons not to switch to kde4 atm. |
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> 1) Speed: I have a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ with |
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> 8GB of ram and a Radeon HD 3600 card but still kde 4.3 most of the time |
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> feels like walking through mud. |
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turn of composite or install a xorg-server with the |
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fedora_dont_backfill_bg_none.patch and see kde fly. |
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> 2) Crashes: kde 4.3 crashes way to often, sometimes it even brings X to |
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> its knees. Kde 3.5.10 is solid as a rock. |
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I had never seen a 'bring down X' crash. There have been some konqueror |
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crashes in the past - but the same is true for 3.5. Compared with 3.2 or 3.4 |
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4.3 is a lot more stable (for me). |
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> 3) Screen-setup: I have to monitores connected to my pc static in xorg |
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> as two seperated displays :0.0 and :0.1. If I start kde <4.4-svn I have |
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> both screens on my main monitor and the second is just as good as dead. |
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> There is a patch for this in svn (or is it git now?) and as much as I |
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> can say by testing a few live-builds this point will be gone by next |
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> release. |
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ok, sounds like a genuine stupid bug. Can't even fixed with krandrtray? |
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> 4) Design: I have a very small design with two small bars at the bottom |
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> and on the right side. I can't create a design in kde4.x so far that |
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> consumes as few space on my monitor as i have it in kde 3. |
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but you know that you can make the plasma bar very small - and add a couple of |
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them to the desktop? |
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> The fifth point on my list is that many of the functions and (3rd party) |
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> kde programms I use day by day aren't there yet at all or only with lack |
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> of functions and mostly in late alpha-state: k3b, amarok, kdevelop, |
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> kvirc to just name a few. |
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I haven't found anything missing in k3b or amarok - and I don't use kdevelop |
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or kvirc. What are you missing from k3b? |
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> The last reason I stick with kde 3.5.10 for a while is that working with |
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> kde 4.x just doesn't feel right. Switching to kde4 is like switching to |
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> a completly different DE. KDE 4 isn't kde anymore, it is something |
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> absolutly different that calls itself kde. |
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people said the same when going from 1.1 to 2.0 and 2.2 to 3.0.... |
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The only two things that I really disliked about kde 4.X is the new |
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'systemsettings' - I liked kcontrol. Very much. And akonadi creeping into |
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everything. |
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