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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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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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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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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |