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Am 05.10.2014 um 18:27 schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> On 05/10/2014 17:50, Michael Palimaka wrote: |
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>> On 10/06/2014 02:35 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>>> On 10/5/2014 11:01 AM, Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>> I'd be interested to know what KDE negatives you've |
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>>>> experienced/heard in the past though. |
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>>> Bloat, buggy/unstable ever since the move from KDE3 to KDE4 (and never |
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>>> really gotten any better over time), etc... |
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>>> But of course there are always haters too... I'm sure it isn't as bad as |
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>>> the loudest complainers make it sound... |
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>> There were definitely issues in KDE 4 early days but there have been |
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>> substantial improvements since then. Regarding bloat/performance, this |
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>> biggest complaints seem to be about nepomuk/baloo. We provide the |
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>> semantic-desktop USE flag to provide the option of disabling this |
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>> feature wherever it's possible. |
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> People do complain about nepomuk/baloo, but in my opinion it's mostly |
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> unwarranted. The first indexing action did always take a long time (and |
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> so does mlocate) but once that's done, I found it didn't really impact |
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> the system all that much. |
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> My real beef is with akonadi and kdepim. I could never get the damn |
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> thing to actually work or to tell me what it was doing in a manner I |
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> could understand. The last straw was around KDE-4.4 when the importer |
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> managed to destroy my entire mail store and leave me with nothing, so I |
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> switched to claws and several years later switched again to Thunderbird. |
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or even better: akonadi eating 10 years and 100 000+ archived emails. |
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But the gains were there - search became slower, if it worked at all and |
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all filters broke - several times. |
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> I keep reading reports that kdepim is nowadays so much better and |
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> stable, but to be frank I do not trust it, and likely never will. I also |
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> understand this is not entirely logical, but it's just the way it is. |
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as long as akonadi with its idiotic database backend is around, it will |
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never be trustworthy. |
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> The rest of KDE I find to be very usable and rather pleasant to use. My |
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> sole remaining gripe is lack of stored sessions in dolphin :-) |
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My favorite fuckups which are still around: |
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tumblr can make konqueror hang at 100% cpu for minutes, because of some |
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javascript - firefox and chromium are fine and dlisted in one tab is |
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fine, but open one of their articles in a new tab and konqueror just |
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vanishes. Not even the crash dialog pops up. |