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I unmerged all the kde-base/...-4.2.1 pkgs preparatory to remerging them |
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with USE="kdeprefix" & it hit me: why am I wasting time on this rubbish ? |
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KDE 4.2.1 is not -- as someone bluntly pointed out -- a successor to 3.5 : |
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it's a whole new concept, not yet clear even in the minds of its developers. |
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So I'm faced with something I don't want & it's also full of bugs: |
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I don't want desktops to slide to/fro when I change them, it's nauseating; |
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Konsole profiles don't work, Dolphin won't start as I want, |
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add the wrong item to a panel & Plasma freezes with 1 CPU at 100 % . |
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I cb content with Fluxbox, if KDE 3.5 disappears one day, |
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but I do like the KDE 3.5 environment & many of its applications: |
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they're reliable, highly-configurable, attractive & tasteful. |
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There is an urgent need for a fork of KDE to improve 3.5 -> 3.6 , |
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while leaving the silly candy-babies to ape Microsoft & Mac. |
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I've removed the rest of what I installed to support KDE 4 (except Qt 4 ) |
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& may install Xfce 4.6 next weekend to see how far it's come |
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since I last used it in autumn 2004 (a poor 4.2 then). |
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As I've said, I'm impressed with Thunar, |
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which is way ahead of Dolphin & cb installed without most of Xfce 4 . |
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There was an article in the Linux press last week about a plain user, |
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who had had enough of Microsoft & tried out a Linux distro: |
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what she loved most was the simple practical Fluxbox desktop ... |
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