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Philip Webb wrote: |
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> It looks as if in the near future I am going to have to install KDE 5 , |
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> if I want to go on using my regular daily apps Konsole Gwenview Okular ; |
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> yes, I know I can limit exposure to their requirements |
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> & don't need to install the whole desktop system. |
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> Before I plunge into that, is anyone else using KDE 5 every day ? |
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> What are people's experiences with it ? |
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The things that are weird or don't work right. My clock on the panel |
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thingy at the bottom, it winks at me, a lot. It's annoying. It isn't |
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as bad after the update a couple days tho so maybe it is being worked |
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on. Also, if I put to many widgets/??? on the panel, it locks up a |
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lot. Things that update a lot make it worse. It works fairly well with |
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a CPU and network monitor. If I go past that, it tends to lock up |
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more. The device notifier thing, worthless except for telling you |
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plugged something in. Nothing I click on does anything. |
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Now to plasmashell. It gets CPU hungry to the point I have to kill it. |
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If it isn't that, it locks up completely. Either way, I have to kill it |
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and then restart it, or log out and back in again. If you run into |
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this, I'll be glad to share the command, maybe you can even improve it |
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more. ;-) |
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Konqueror. Well, I haven't been able to use it for a while and been |
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stuck with Dolphin. I don't like Dolphin but it works, just not like |
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I'm used to with Konqueror. What it does. I use a folder desktop which |
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means I have folders and such on my desktop that I can click on to go |
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find a pic, video, document etc. When I do click it with Konqueror |
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enabled, I get hundreds of Konqueror processes/windows. Even after I |
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kill it with pkill, it pops up again and starts opening new |
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processes/windows. I just have to keep killing it until it stops. I'm |
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not sure what to make of that. Oh, after you kill and restart plasma, |
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you can't click and open a desktop folder any more. |
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I had several other oddities until I gave KDE a fresh start on configs. |
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I renamed .kde4 and .config and some things did improve or just started |
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working correctly. I think the .config is the most important part on |
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this. There doesn't seem to be near as much in .kde4 any more. If you |
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use Kmail or something, that could change things. |
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So, depending on your settings, you may or may not have those issues. |
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I run somewhat stable but I've got all of KDE and its related packages |
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running keyworded packages. I'm not using the -9999 ones but I'm right |
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there close to it. My core stuff, things needed for booting etc, those I |
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try to keep on stable. If you want to run like mine, let me know and |
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I'll send you my short list keyword file, emerge's autounmask will give |
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you the rest based on your USE flags etc. |
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Oh, I use Seamonkey for my email so I have no info on things like Kmail |
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and such. I see others have posted about those. |
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That's all I can recall at the moment. |
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Hope this helps. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |