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Duncan writes: |
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> Alex Schuster posted on Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:19:23 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> > I still use Konqueror... not really sure why. I like it, yes, it looks |
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> > more KDEish than Firefox, and it opens in a new window instead as a |
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> > new tab in an existing Firefox window, which probably could be changed |
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> > anyway... but a problem are the bookmarks, moving multiple top-level |
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> > bookmarks to a folder makes keditbookmarks crash, sometimes losing |
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> > some of those bookmarks, and sometimes it will additionally delete |
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> > the very first folder. Happened at least three times for me, and |
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> > guess what, the first bookmark folder is named 'Accounts' and is the |
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> > most important one for me. Then I will have to get an old version of |
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> > bookmarks.xml from a backup and merge it with the current file. |
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> Interesting. I still use kde/konqueror bookmarks as I'm able to open |
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> them from a dedicated bookmarks menu plasmoid, |
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Right, that's also a reason why I'm still using Konqueror. |
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> but I've /never/ (to my |
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> recollection) had that issue. I moved to firefox for other reasons, |
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> and gripe a bit to myself when I have to create a new bookmark in kde |
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> semi- manually since it's not kde-integrated like konqueror, but I've |
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> never had problems with kde's bookmarks. |
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In early KDE4 keditbookmarks was totally unusable, I think it was not |
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even possible to move bookmarks around. This has been fixed, but it still |
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crashes often, and the problem I mentioned is quite reproducible. It does |
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not happen every time, but it happens a lot. And that it additionally |
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deletes the very first folder completely is especially annoying, because |
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I did not realize this until much later, when needed the bookmark. |
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Here's a report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255611 |
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And I think this is a big problem with KDE4. Such bugs exist for years, |
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and noone seems to care much. Could you imagine Firefox's bookmark editor |
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to be buggy for two years, or Internet Explorer? No, this sort of |
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problems exists in KDE4 only I think. |
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Sorry for the ranting, I know this is free software and so on, but these |
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are the things that make it hard for me to recommend KDE4 to others. |
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People just expect simple things like bookmark editors to work. But |
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instead they crash, and they delete data when doing so. I'm, still a big |
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fan of KDE4, and would not like to change, but I do not recommend it to |
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others. And of course my mom's Laptup runs Gnome, not KDE. |
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Wonko |
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