From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NmCEr-0008Al-32 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:29:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56B6FE0BB1; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 20:28:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B702E0BB1 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 20:28:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb39 with SMTP id 39so1433865wyb.40 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:28:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=OLfEA+Wxm6mG6HS6S0Y8PVcFTSK/brR1EriRZleCKOo=; b=dJTz7mjzXcX5nn5ajlJr9iJl8VKHglxNvo0Zcb1ulEzRWYWevmdSUkKicwQmYK6/5m m+v3cy99IZuR/w6xckOeRIAQOO+0l/RKGMKgrzoD9gsbRSjdfohvy6p43NzBEEz4wBFh c6O9tedIl7Nxe3kDPsunqwzsMW5If0e2rkjuw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=o1Oi6n+2AXTj+oa4rJ9YaEq1nDKzP8tUEwGN3u6cAzORCzneHoPnQfYkuYiKV3M5Nb YcjDcssc7J0Is0zVya68XwFN8jZE+WFqEA76rgrKaHZ0QTXc1IcuMXwJw32YGB0Ldyy9 fF8i3hyQNfHwc+TL9UqzPA5ffn2JT/e4q8VWg= Received: by 10.216.158.1 with SMTP id p1mr3262065wek.202.1267475337494; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:28:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm7620500eyh.5.2010.03.01.12.28.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:28:56 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here! Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 20:28:42 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r10; KDE/4.3.5; i686; ; ) References: <9acccfe51002231827q26e94e64s7f29ec46b6675156@mail.gmail.com> <4B8C1066.8030908@gmail.com> <201003012122.29314.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201003012122.29314.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1334962.YrGlsohend"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003012028.54948.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 366621aa-6911-4bbc-932b-2312f4386271 X-Archives-Hash: f25c3857ac14b7a96a432c2ea85f306c --nextPart1334962.YrGlsohend Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? >=20 > 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. >=20 > Sort of like AdBlock - if it were poor quality it would not be a correct > reflection on Mozilla as a whole >=20 > > 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. >=20 > My pet peeve is Desktop. I have two monitors at work and use two X screen= s. > 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= ,=20 xface, these days? I had a look at it when it was all the rage back when, = but=20 it looked too Gnomey to me at the time and I couldn't find a reason for=20 preferring it over say fluxbox. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1334962.YrGlsohend Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkuMI4YACgkQVTDTR3kpaLbPrQCeN5kKrwK6A64GmFXAihrD6tjH BdAAn1wp9z3HHUz3O8LTs117m8snTbMa =FJWc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1334962.YrGlsohend--