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

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

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.


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