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

[Mick]

On Monday 01 March 2010 19:22:29 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 01 March 2010 21:07:18 Dale wrote:
> > And to think I have been in KDE 4 for almost a week now.  Maybe this is
> > to soon to remove KDE 3?
>
> To be fair, amarok is not part of KDE-4, it's a third party add-on to the
>  KDE framework. Not much the KDE devs can do about that except encourage
>  the Amarok devs to ship quality tested code.
>
> Sort of like AdBlock - if it were poor quality it would not be a correct
> reflection on Mozilla as a whole
>
> > 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.
>
> My pet peeve is Desktop. I have two monitors at work and use two X screens.
> KDE wants to create a Desktop and a Desktop-1 directory. I want it to just
>  use the same set of files for both - background, icons, plasma widgets
>  must be the same on both monitors, but actual app windows running there
>  independent. This seems perfectly reasonable to me - e17 does it out the
>  box - but thus far I have not found the magic voodoo spell that makes it
>  happen.

How does e17 compare in terms of resources to other WMs/DEs like *box, LXDE, 
xface, these days?  I had a look at it when it was all the rage back when, but 
it looked too Gnomey to me at the time and I couldn't find a reason for 
preferring it over say fluxbox.
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Regards,
Mick