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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads-up: KDEers: Particularly kde3-ers,
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:59:08
Message-Id: 200908251819.38083.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads-up: KDEers: Particularly kde3-ers, by "Sebastian Beßler"
1 On Dienstag 25 August 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
2 > Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
3 > >> 2) Crashes: kde 4.3 crashes way to often, sometimes it even brings X to
4 > >> its knees. Kde 3.5.10 is solid as a rock.
5 > >
6 > > I had never seen a 'bring down X' crash. There have been some konqueror
7 > > crashes in the past - but the same is true for 3.5. Compared with 3.2 or
8 > > 3.4 4.3 is a lot more stable (for me).
9 >
10 > Ok, maybe its because I started with kde 3.5 a few years ago but kde was
11 > never so unstable as with
12 >
13 > >> 3) Screen-setup: I have to monitores connected to my pc static in xorg
14 > >> as two seperated displays :0.0 and :0.1. If I start kde <4.4-svn I have
15 > >> both screens on my main monitor and the second is just as good as dead.
16 > >
17 > > ok, sounds like a genuine stupid bug. Can't even fixed with krandrtray?
18 >
19 > No, because I can't use randr as randr doesn't supports my setup at all.
20 > I had to deactivate randr-support in catalyst-drivers to get it working.
21 > With randr only stupid bigscreen is possible. This is the reason why I
22 > still stick with the closed driver, the open ones only support xrandr.
23
24 hm, latest catalyst do have randr-1.2 support, does that help?
25
26 >
27 > > but you know that you can make the plasma bar very small - and add a
28 > > couple of them to the desktop?
29 >
30 > Yes I know. But then many things aren't useable anymore because scaling
31 > of the icons freaks out here if it gets to small.
32
33 hm, the only icons that don't scale well 'here' are the ones in systemtray.
34
35 > 1) the collection-scanner is broken. Only approx. 400 songs are added to
36 > the collection. I have over 10000 songs on my pc.
37
38 my current collection has ~1700 songs
39
40 >
41 > 2) Support for generic mp3-players doesn't exist or needs workarounds
42 > (in live-builds atm)
43
44 okay, I never used that feature, so I can't say anything about it. I see the
45 mtp useflag - but again, never used.
46
47
48 >
49 > 3) Not really a mising feature but amarok 2 looks like crap. I like the
50 > way 1.4 looks and hate that amarok 2 forces me to learn everything new.
51 > But forcing users to learn new ways to do old things its all that is
52 > kde4. I hate it if i get forced to do something.
53
54 'learn everything new'? Collection left, check, Playlist right, check. Play
55 buttons on top. check. Also you can radically change the look of amarok the
56 way you want it to look like.
57
58 btw: amarok version 2.1.1