Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

[Dale]

chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
> On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Dale wrote:
>
>> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
>>
>>> On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
>>>>
>>>>> On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thursday 11 February 2010 13:50:54 Walter Dnes wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:31:26AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Donnerstag 11 Februar 2010, Roy Wright wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> IMO, mandatory semantic-desktop is a very good reason to find
>>>>>>>>> another desktop manager (even after being my primary desktop for 7
>>>>>>>>> years).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> yeah good luck with that. Because gnome is moving in that direction
>>>>>>>> too.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>      There are other desktops besides GNOME and KDE.  Actually I
>>>>>>>      prefer the
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ICEWM window manager.  I was running a 1999 Dell 450mhz PIII with 128
>>>>>>> megs of *SYSTEM* ram until the summer of 2007.  Let's just say that
>>>>>>> GNOME and KDE were out of the question for me.  On my current
>>>>>>> desktop, ICEWM flies.  But I also have a netbook, and again GNOME
>>>>>>> and KDE are not usable.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Seriously guys, you start sounding like luddites. Is new, must be
>>>>>>>> bad.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>      Correction, is fat, bloated, and slow, must be bad.  I wonder if
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Microsoft's anti-linux strategy is to have its agents infiltrate the
>>>>>>> linux developer community, and turn linux into bloatware.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> You have been corrected on this point so many times I now think you
>>>>>> are just a stupid ass.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is not slow.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You are the only one saying that. People who do use Nepomuk say that
>>>>>> it is not slow and does not hog resources (initial scan excepted).
>>>>>>
>>>>> you can even tell nepomuk how much memory it is allowed to use ...
>>>>>
>>>> Can you nice the thing too?  That would work.  I set emerge to 5 and I
>>>> can't even tell that emerge is running most of the time.  There may be
>>>> times when I can but it is rare.
>>>>
>>>> I just don't get this thing that indexing is a resource hog.  I notice
>>>> updatedb running at night.  I have 329Gbs of "data" and updatedb only
>>>> takes a few minutes.  How is that a resource "hog"?  My machine is not
>>>> as old as some but it is slow going by the new machines that are out
>>>> now.  It's a AMD 2500+ with 2Gbs of ram.  I have had Linux on machines
>>>> as slow as 133MHz but never felt the need to disable indexing.
>>>>
>>> when updatedb runs your cache is shot afterwards. That is a known
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> Nepomuk is only noticable once: the first indexing run. After that it
>>> creates zero load.
>>>
>> So cache is bad?  Heck, my cache is almost always full anyway.  Nothing
>> new there.  If it is not updatedb then it will be something else.
>>
> no, cahce is great. That is the problem. Updatedb replaces the cached files
> with stuff you probably don't care about. Which is bad.
>
>

I don't think I have ever seen my cache change when running updatedb.  
Maybe it is so small that it doesn't matter.  After all, I only have 
over 300GBs worth of files on the drives and 2Gbs of ram.  This makes me 
want to stay up tonight and test this theory.  o_O

Dale

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