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

[Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>]

Mick writes:

> On Monday 01 March 2010 16:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote:

> > And another weekend of KDE4 trouble. I rebooted after some upgrades,
> > along those were Qt and MySQL. Now, plasma-desktop crashed, also
> > when restarting it on the command line.
> 
> [snip ...]
> 
> > Sorry for the whining,
> 
> Nah!  It's good to vent every now and then.  :-))

Thanks! <sniff>

> Is it perhaps that you have a very complex/overloaded plasma set up?

Not really.
I would like to, though, this stuff is actually quite nice. I changed my 
setup to have a different activity for each desktop, and I like it. I hope 
this stuff becomes more stable and usable soon. And I am missing features. 
Why can't I tell a plasmoid to appear on several desktops / activities I 
select, and not only on one? Why can't I insert another activity/desktop 
between the ones I already have? At the moment, I think I would have to 
close all plasmoids and re-open them on the new activity I want them to 
be, this is annoying.
But again, I like the whole idea, it's only not perfect yet.

> I've updated KDE on two machines and went swimmingly well.  On one
> machine I first removed qt3 and then had no problems whatsoever.  On
> the other I can't recall what I did with qt3 ...
> 
> Other than that, I've noticed this sort of behaviour in the past with
> KDE2 and KDE3 when I was trying to use KDE while major apps were being
> updated.

This might have been the problem. But I would not like to log out for 
that, I just do the world updates from time to time when the machine has 
not much else to do, but I like to keep my desktop session running.

	Wonko