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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 05:03:13
Message-Id: 4B97631D-6926-45FF-85C7-01647BBAE398@antarean.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5? by Mick
1 On 6 October 2014 23:47:51 CEST, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >On Monday 06 Oct 2014 16:44:57 Jens Reinemuth wrote:
3 >> Am Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2014, 18:59:31 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
4 >> > Am 05.10.2014 um 18:27 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
5 >> > > On 05/10/2014 17:50, Michael Palimaka wrote:ystem all that much.
6 >> > >
7 >> > > My real beef is with akonadi and kdepim. I could never get the
8 >damn
9 >> > > thing to actually work or to tell me what it was doing in a
10 >manner I
11 >> > > could understand. The last straw was around KDE-4.4 when the
12 >importer
13 >> > > managed to destroy my entire mail store and leave me with
14 >nothing, so I
15 >> > > switched to claws and several years later switched again to
16 >> > > Thunderbird.
17 >> >
18 >> > or even better: akonadi eating 10 years and 100 000+ archived
19 >emails.
20 >> > But the gains were there - search became slower, if it worked at
21 >all and
22 >> > all filters broke - several times.
23 >>
24 >> I can't really count how many times i simply deleted all the
25 >> .config/akonadi and .local/akonadi stuff - and let akonadi regenerate
26 >it,
27 >> simply because i deeply believed in the whole crap getting better! It
28 >> never got better...
29 >>
30 >> Currently i can live with all that stuff, simply by disabling all
31 >nepomuk-
32 >> and akonadi-stuff and waiting for it to show all my mails again...
33 >>
34 >> Funny: My wife has a second account with exactly the same settings
35 >and is
36 >> deeply annoyed by the permanent popups telling her that the
37 >balloo-indexer
38 >> has closed... Indeed she has disabled it!!! So i have to kill that
39 >shit
40 >> every time!
41 >>
42 >> Most annoying story in the last time: KdePIM 4.10 simply stopped
43 >working
44 >> with my private Courier-IMAP-Server, telling everyone, that courier
45 >has a
46 >> bug... Ok, maybe, but it worked since every Version and just stopped
47 >> because one ore more developers simply decided to do things
48 >"right"!!!
49 >>
50 >> No Problem in Gentoo, simply mask and downgrade kdepim-meta... I had
51 >more
52 >> problems at work with Kubuntu! With KDE4.10.1 everything works as
53 >> expected...
54 >>
55 >> But this is just a gnome-like-behavior... The developers simply don't
56 >> really care what the users want or need... i really never heard of
57 >anybody
58 >> saying: Oh that search stuff is cool! I use it regularily!
59 >>
60 >> And to go deeper: Why don't they store documents in a database, that
61 >is
62 >> better optimized for documents... MongoDB? CouchDB? Instead they use
63 >this
64 >> shitty mixture of MySQL and Virtuoso!? WTF?
65 >
66 >
67 >No, no, no! What they should do is use Microsoft's Sharepoint server
68 >solution, which stores documents in the MS SQL as binary blobs ...
69 >millions of
70 >corporate users can't be wrong! O_o
71
72 Please don't tell them!
73
74 At one of my customers they use Sharepoint as a CVS for sourcecode....
75
76 I keep having to merge changes manually....
77
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79 Joost
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