Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

[Dale]

Alex Schuster wrote:
> Dale writes:
>
>
>> Alex Schuster wrote:
>>
>>> Dale, you brave, brave man, are you really using KDE4 now?
>>>
>
>> I am in KDE4.  I still have KDE3 installed tho.  Thing is, I'm still
>> using the same programs I was in KDE3.  Dolphin looks nice and all but
>> I can't use it as root at all.
>>
> Huh? No problem here.
>
> OT: does anyone know about dolphin somehow accessing all files it shows? I
> see this on a system that uses dolphin to browse remote files via the fish
> protocol. Previews are not enabled, but all the files are accessed, which
> means it takes about one hour until the directory is shown, because all
> files are being retrieved from a SAM-FS server. Maybe it is reading the
> magic number for each file? I will try konqueror now.
>
>

This is what I am talking about.  Dolphin will browse through 
directories but as soon as I click to open a text file, it gives a 
error.  I have discussed this on the kde list and it is a known 
problem.  One even said the code was written to prevent that but others 
say it is just not fixed yet.  So, I still use Konqueror just like I did 
in KDE 3.


>> So, I went back to Konqueror to edit
>> config files and such.  I don't use some of the programs that you are
>> using so I don't have the same issues.  I use smplayer to do movies or
>> CDs.  It doesn't care what DE you use.
>>
> Ah, smplayer. Did not think about that. It was not important anyway - I
> had ripped a CD with K3b, and wondered why two tracks were swapped. BTW,
> what do you use for ripping? K3b is okay, but it does not remember changes
> like output path or file naming, I have to set this again for every CD.
> But smplayer does not recognise the CD either. I wonder why I do not have
> a /dev/cdrom device - only /dev/cdrom3, /dev/cdrw3, /dev/dvd3 and
> /dev/dvdrw3, all symlinking to /dev/sr0.
>
>
>

I have used tkdvd to burn a DVD.  It ain't pretty but it worked.  ;-)

>> I do like the looks of KDE4.  I still think they dropped KDE3 to soon.
>> KDE4 will get there but it is still having issues many months after
>> dropping KDE3.  Bad thing is, I don't think they care about the users
>> they left hanging in the wind.
>>
> I also think KDE3 was dropped too soon. While KDE4 is usable now for most
> things, it still has too many bugs, and a while ago it had many many more,
> while development and bug fixing of KDE3 was already stopped.
> On the other hand, manpower is limited, and I understand the decision to
> focus on the new project rather than doing stuff for the old one that soon
> noone will be using. KDE 3.5 is still there. I don't know about the
> security issues, would it be unsafe now to use KDE 3.5? I remember
> something about kpfd being masked due to security holes.
>
> 	Wonko
>
>

I understand the second hand but it still leaves the users out in the 
cold.  I'm hoping the release of KDE 5 will be handled better but I'm 
not holding my breath.

Dale

:-)  :-)