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Alex Schuster posted on Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:18:12 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> Not me, I really like Amarok 2. For me, it is the KDE4 software I am |
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> most happy with. |
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LOL! ... And you DO have your problems with kde4! |
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(FWIW, those who don't understand what I'm referring to, apparently |
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aren't regulars on the kde-linux and kde-general lists. |
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Both AS/Wonko and I have had our problems, tho mine at least are |
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reasonable solved, now, by switching to non-kde solutions for a lot of |
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stuff, mpd and front-ends as a music player, tho it's MUCH different than |
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amarok but better fits my usage tho I miss the visualizations but kde4- |
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amarok killed that anyway tho for all I know it's back now, claws-mail |
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for mail and as a feed-reader, killing with fire anything akonadi related |
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including kmail and akregator, my own scripts in a konsole popup |
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replacing kde3's multikey hotkey functionality, as it's apparently |
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entirely broken and unfixable in qt4 (qt5 is supposed to have the feature |
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again, tho, but that doesn't help with qt4/kde4), the qt4-based smplayer |
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and qt4-front-ended vlc replacing kaffeine, firefox replacing konqueror, |
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since it became very apparent with the treatment of various bugs and https |
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certificate handling that the kde devs don't consider konqueror any more |
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than a "toy" browser, or they'd not have called kde4 including konqueror |
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ready for ordinary users, when it was seriously bugged, including |
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security issues... and it's still kde4 but I switched to the yasp- |
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scripted and then superkaramba to replace the missing ksysguard plasmoid/ |
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kicker applet. Meanwhile, with akonadi killed with fire, I was able to |
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set USE=-semantic-desktop, regardless of the semantic-desktop lead-weight |
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being a major bullet-point feature of kde4, and get back the performance |
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kde4 otherwise robs compared to kde3. |
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But I still like kde's general configurability, and plasma as a desktop's |
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actually quite good, once you add a few plasmoids from kdelook and |
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configure everything to your liking. kwin's also quite configurable, and |
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I like the available effects and kde integration. And with a decent mid- |
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range graphics card (radeon hd4650 on the old system, radeon hd6770 on |
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the new, freedomware drivers of course) it's fast and stable. I'm |
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actually quite happy with kde4 now, even if I had to dump about half of |
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it including setting USE=-semantic-desktop, to get there. Also on the |
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bright side, since I'm not using kde for mail, feeds or the web any |
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longer, only mainly the desktop/wm and games, and with kde4 since 4.5 now |
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much more stable (sans kdepim with its akonadification) I'm now freed of |
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the concerns that kept me from running pre-releases earlier, and have |
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been running them since 4.7-rc2, thru 4.8 betas and rcs and 4.9 betas, |
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and now am on 4.9-rc2, waiting 4.9.0-release in a couple weeks or so. =:^) |
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Umm... sorry. I got a bit carried away there. I intended that to be |
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only a few lines poking wonko, but then I realized some wouldn't grok the |
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context, and... |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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