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On 04/14/2016 11:26 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: |
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> Hi Dan, |
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> In System Settings -> Search there's options to turn off the file |
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> indexer as well as all the other search plugins (including recent |
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> documents). I've heard that sometimes it can take a little bit for the |
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> indexer to stop, but otherwise it seems to work OK fo rme. |
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I actually forgot I sent this to the list, I've calmed down now. I got |
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so mad at one point the whole K desktop looked red :-) |
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I did try disabling through system settings->search (and I found |
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balooctl shortly afterward and used that too) but even after multiple |
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reboots baloo insisted on running and indexing files. |
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> Duncan has some patches floating around if you want to strip baloo out |
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> completely. |
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I actually don't care if it's installed, but it wasn't staying disabled |
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for me, even after multiple times telling it to. |
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>> One other gripe on KDE5: it's 2016, why can't we use the meta key to pop |
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>> up the menu? Really... |
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> Not sure the reason why it's not native functionality, but you might try |
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> x11-misc/ksuperkey. |
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Thanks for that tip! I'll check it out (although I'm back on kde4 now. |
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More on that below.) |
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>> Other than that, things are a bit different. I'm not sure I like the |
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>> flat look yet. After the upgrade for some reason the K menu was |
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>> invisible, but when I set the theme to Oxygen it was visible again? I |
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>> thought that was odd, did anyone else experience that? |
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> Maybe a botched settings migration? |
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I forgot to emerge the wedge-compatibility layer dev-libs/sni-qt, |
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figured that out a couple days later. |
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Last night I reverted back to kde4. Plasma was hanging quite freqently |
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(on resume, plasma would hang for 1-2 minutes before I could use the |
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taskbar/K menu. I also couldn't switch using alt+tab - if I pressed it |
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quickly like I would in kde4 nothing would happen. If I pressed alt+tab, |
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released tab, and held alt for 3-5 seconds it would work, which was |
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downright annoying.) I tried disabling the compositor, no luck. Then I |
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thought this might be because of the way I disabled baloo so I undid it |
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and remerged it but it made no difference. |
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I then discovered that functionality was broken in kde5, most notably |
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Dolphin stayed at the kde4 version (newest versions were keyworded |
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unstable) which means its integration was all broken. |
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Shortly after that I found out nouveau was not recommended for nvidia |
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cards, so I installed the binary driver and went from regular freezing |
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to downright crashing. Plasma would crash every 2-3 minutes instead of |
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freezing. :-( |
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I'm back on nouveau with kde4 and everything is working fine. I will |
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wait out the upgrade to kde5/plasma & mask it if needed for as long as |
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possible, it's nowhere near usable for me. I messed with it for 4-5 days |
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trying to get it to work without crashing and gave up. |
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Dan |
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