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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:26:39
Message-Id: 4B8C22E1.6020402@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here! by Alan McKinnon
1 chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
2 > On Monday 01 March 2010 21:07:18 Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> And to think I have been in KDE 4 for almost a week now. Maybe this is
5 >> to soon to remove KDE 3?
6 >>
7 > To be fair, amarok is not part of KDE-4, it's a third party add-on to the KDE
8 > framework. Not much the KDE devs can do about that except encourage the Amarok
9 > devs to ship quality tested code.
10 >
11 > Sort of like AdBlock - if it were poor quality it would not be a correct
12 > reflection on Mozilla as a whole
13 >
14 >
15
16 This is true I guess. It is getting there but I still have to work
17 around problems. It's still missing things but it is getting more usable.
18
19 >
20 >> My pet peeve so far is the background slide show. Every time I log in,
21 >> try to change a setting for the background, or sneeze the wrong way, it
22 >> starts looking for the new images, even tho there may not be any. I
23 >> have a huge amount of them and it takes almost 2 minutes to "rebuild"
24 >> whatever it is building. While it is doing that, it won't do anything
25 >> else.
26 >>
27 >> I'm hoping this will change sometime soon. Oh, I also don't like that
28 >> the images are random. Most of my images are done as a slide show.
29 >> Having them in random order sort of defeats the point.
30 >>
31 > My pet peeve is Desktop. I have two monitors at work and use two X screens.
32 > KDE wants to create a Desktop and a Desktop-1 directory. I want it to just use
33 > the same set of files for both - background, icons, plasma widgets must be the
34 > same on both monitors, but actual app windows running there independent. This
35 > seems perfectly reasonable to me - e17 does it out the box - but thus far I
36 > have not found the magic voodoo spell that makes it happen.
37 >
38 >
39
40 I still have a single CRT monitor. The LCDs are getting cheaper tho.
41 Maybe they will fix or add the needed code for you to be able to do what
42 you want before to long. I'm not sure when the next set of updates are
43 coming out.
44
45 I never could get the kde layman to work right so I gave up on it. The
46 kde-sunset works fine tho. Weird.
47
48 Dale
49
50 :-) :-)