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

[Alex Schuster]

Alex Schuster wrote:

> Alex Schuster writes:
> > Now I'm going to emerge KDE-4.4.1, let's see what this will change.
>
> Nothing I notice. At least things have not gone worse:)

But still they are not well. But you can safely ignore this if you don't 
have KDE4 or are not interested in reading how things do not work, and how 
I still use them. I have no good explanation for this, probably I keep 
using KDE4 because it is so new and shiny, because I think that the time 
must come when things actually DO work, and because I so not like to 
switch to something else. There was never a time when ALL was working 
fine, but at the moment I am even more disappointed then I used to be.

- Kontact. The old address book I had imported fro KDE 3.5 half a year ago 
showed one "address book" and many std.vcf (or similar) files, with my 
data scattered on them. I moved all stuff into the "address book", and did 
not use it for a while
Now I wanted to do so, but it did not run due to an error with akonadi. I 
tried to figure out what this was, and how to get the error message in 
English, but then I found out that I only have to restart kontact. Fine, 
now I want to add a contact. First, when I want to edit the location, the 
country is set to Afghanistan, I always have to change this to Germany. 
Annoying, why is this so, who would want this behaviour, except for 
Afghans perhaps. But it does not matter much, as I cannot store the data: 
when I press the OK button, I get a dialog where I should select the 
address book to store the data in, but the list is empty. Great. I tried 
adding a new address book, now I have two entries called "address book" 
and one called "personal contacts", still I cannot add an entry.

- Yesterday I tried the demo version of 'World Of Goo', a really nice 
game. it runs in fullscreen, after ending it my panel was invisible, but 
still working. At least turning the composite stuff off makes it visible. 
I tried to switch the resolution with Ctrl-Alt-+/-, and indeed this made 
the panel come back, but I could not switch the resolution back as it was 
before. Before trying xrandr I hought I'd just start another session with 
another window manager (via the K menu), and indeed I got the KDM screen, 
but only because KDE had crashed. At the next login, I had to rearrange my 
plasmoids because they were shiftwed to the left, probably due to the 
lower resolution I had. Or something like that, as switching the 
resolution should not change the virtual resolution. But in this case, I 
could not scroll around to see the whole desktop. Well, whatever, I do not 
dare to try this again.

- Dolphin can do FTP, but I have to repeat the login process several times 
until I see the destination files.

- I just tried to listen to a CD, but KsCD does not find it. The eject 
button ejects, but does not close the tray if pressed again. Okay. I just  
thought I could play CDs with KDE. Can you?

- And I am currently editing a page in my wiki with konqueror, but after 
the dialog appeared that I should save the edits, it sort of hangs. I can 
reload the page, but cannot edit any more. The good thing is that I did 
not edit that much yet. Which is also a bad thing, because when editing 
longer parts I cop the text to the clipboard from time to time, just in 
case something crashes. I'm doing this with this mail, too.
Hmm, looks like konqueror is still working just as usual, it's just it 
does no display updates at all. It's the first time it happened, but as it 
just happened while I was writing this rant, I thought I'd include it.

- Of course, Amarok keeps doing weird things. At least I can play music 
from my collection. But playing a stream sometimes crashes it. And 
dragging files into Amarok always leads to a crash. Yeah, I know, Amarok 
is not KDE.

But at least one bug was fixed, I got a mail from bugzilla about this 
today. It's the bug that makes password dialogs not work if the password 
is to be displayed as three bullets. Wow, nearly two months after it had 
been reported, this serious bug was at least confirmed to exist and is 
fixed now. Maybe this bug happens seldomly, but when it happens, much of 
KDE4 is unusable, as you have no kmail, no kwallet, nothing that needs a 
password works.

Dale, you brave, brave man, are you really using KDE4 now?

	Wonko