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From: R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's with KDE?
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:35:45
Message-Id: CAAD4mYitVRJ_t0=3+PDHevPVmNzS7c5TPDxF3mGBOvF8pC5X9g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: What's with KDE? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 5:36 PM Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > On 03/11/2018 06:43, Alan Grimes wrote:
4 > > How did they make it so that 40% of ordinary zip files I try to open
5 > > with konqueror fail CRC (but work perfectly from the command line)....
6 > >
7 > > It used to have nice large icon mode with previews, and nice small-icons
8 > > in normal mode... Broken too for many months now. =\
9 > >
10 > > Akregator crashes all the time if I simply try to close a tab... It went
11 > > about three years without saving anything to disk when it's supposed to
12 > > buffer my RSS feeds. Now it's just crashtastic in the extreme...
13 >
14 > Plasma in itself is not too bad. I use Plasma, but not Konqueror or
15 > Akregator. Find the applications that work best for you. Just because
16 > you use Plasma doesn't mean you need to use the rest of KDE's
17 > applications ;-)
18 >
19 > My browser is Firefox, my email client is Thunderbird, my image viewer
20 > is eog (Eye of GNOME), etc, etc.
21 >
22 > I think my only KDE application is my file manager, which is Dolphin.
23 >
24
25 Plasma has some rough patches but the code quality is a lot better
26 than previous KDE frameworks. It improves regularly, so please keep
27 complaints current.
28
29 I do understand though - it has gotten a bit less stable since I last
30 tried it, but I think it is time to try it again. For my daily driver
31 I tend to use i3 though.
32
33 Cheers,
34 R0b0t1