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

[Dale]

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> On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote:
>
>> On the other hand, from time to time I have show-stoppers, and then I
>> cannot use kmail, or no KDE4 at all. And have to invest time to solve
>> this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being very
>> unstable, and taking 5 minutes to start. What the heck is it doing in this
>> time?
>>
> Fuck knows what amarok-2x does for the first 5 minutes. I *think* On my system
> it scans the music directory, presumably to find updates that happened when
> amarok was not running. Fair enough, can't argue that, but why is it so
> *slow*???
>
> Fuck also knows what the amarok devs are doing in general. I still can't find
> a way to move stuff to an mp3 player like the old 1.4 version did. And the
> library thingamagij still doesn't always update tags, or put tag changes that
> it itself did into it's own database. It gladly accepts any changes you make
> in the Edit Tags dialog, and tries to write them, even if it knows it cannot
> do it (no support for that format, permissions, etc). Then, no warning or
> message about this. Depending on which bleeding edge latest-svn commit build
> you happen to get on any given day, this last might or might not tell you
> something in the status bar.
>
> For all the above reasons, and more, I have switched to clementine (it's in
> portage). It's a Qt port of amarok-1.4 and has equivalents of all the music-
> playing goodness that amarok used to have. It doesn't do tags, external
> players, wikipedia etc etc, it just plays music. And you have to tag your
> music by other means with eg kid3. I can live with that. At least it starts
> and stays up.
>
>

And to think I have been in KDE 4 for almost a week now.  Maybe this is 
to soon to remove KDE 3?

My pet peeve so far is the background slide show.  Every time I log in, 
try to change a setting for the background, or sneeze the wrong way, it 
starts looking for the new images, even tho there may not be any.  I 
have a huge amount of them and it takes almost 2 minutes to "rebuild" 
whatever it is building.  While it is doing that, it won't do anything 
else.

I'm hoping this will change sometime soon.  Oh, I also don't like that 
the images are random.  Most of my images are done as a slide show.  
Having them in random order sort of defeats the point.

Dale

:-)  :-)