Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: kde-sunset: new akode build problems

[Brent Busby]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Duncan wrote:

> FWIW, the type of breakage parallel make issues cause is, AFAIK, always a
> build-time breakage.  If it builds fine but fails at run-time, it's not
> due to parallel make, but due to some other reason.

That's excellent to hear!  Well, I've enabled '-j3' then on two of my 
machines.  They're both quad cores, and I'd like to always leave at 
least one core completely free.  Thanks for the tip.

> I've never met a desktop environment that I liked in default config.  FWIW,
> that's one of the reasons I'm a kde guy, as the lack of proper config
> options for gnome drives me crazy.

Even Linus Torvalds has griped about Gnome on that issue (which must 
have been very embarrassing for the Gnome devels...).  I find myself 
using Gnome a lot at work though instead of KDE, because when I have all 
those desktop options, it makes me want to tweak them all day, and I 
can't help myself.  At least with Gnome, my hands are tied, so then I 
can get some work done.  :)

> Early
> kde4 was as pretty much everyone agrees now, simply a mess.  4.4 is a
> reasonable release candidate, and 4.5 is honestly the first 4.x version I
> can without qualms recommend to pretty much anyone and everyone.)

I'll try it out again sometime...  From what I've heard, Phonon actually 
works with pro audio apps a lot better than artsd ever did.  (Actually 
what pro audio apps do with artsd is ignore and bypass it.)  The last I 
tried KDE 4, I think they were at 4.2, and they didn't even have Konsole 
at a point where it didn't feel like a handicapped version with most of 
its features stripped.  I thought that if they couldn't even make the 
terminal emulator work, what's the point.  I'll give it another shot 
though.

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