From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:20:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003092220.21599.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003092112.14250.wonko@wonkology.org>
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On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:12:09 Alex Schuster wrote:
> Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Alex Schuster writes:
> > > Now I'm going to emerge KDE-4.4.1, let's see what this will change.
> >
> > Nothing I notice. At least things have not gone worse:)
>
> But still they are not well. But you can safely ignore this if you don't
> have KDE4 or are not interested in reading how things do not work, and how
> I still use them. I have no good explanation for this, probably I keep
> using KDE4 because it is so new and shiny, because I think that the time
> must come when things actually DO work, and because I so not like to
> switch to something else. There was never a time when ALL was working
> fine, but at the moment I am even more disappointed then I used to be.
>
> - Kontact. The old address book I had imported fro KDE 3.5 half a year ago
> showed one "address book" and many std.vcf (or similar) files, with my
> data scattered on them. I moved all stuff into the "address book", and did
> not use it for a while
> Now I wanted to do so, but it did not run due to an error with akonadi.
Did you try to create a local resource using your systemsettings and point it
to the local KDE3.5 contacts file? If you restart the address book, then
akonadi will kick in a carry out the migration - if it does not succeed it
will tell you so. In that case you may need to fix things manually (I've
posted how in an older thread of mine, where I managed to make akonadi to
succeed in its migration from a local resource file using sqlite - I don't
have mysql in this box. Let me know if you can't find it.)
> I
> tried to figure out what this was, and how to get the error message in
> English, but then I found out that I only have to restart kontact. Fine,
> now I want to add a contact. First, when I want to edit the location, the
> country is set to Afghanistan, I always have to change this to Germany.
> Annoying, why is this so, who would want this behaviour, except for
> Afghans perhaps.
Have you tried to set up your locale in systemsettings to Germany?
> But it does not matter much, as I cannot store the data:
> when I press the OK button, I get a dialog where I should select the
> address book to store the data in, but the list is empty. Great. I tried
> adding a new address book, now I have two entries called "address book"
> and one called "personal contacts", still I cannot add an entry.
Try to get akonadi to complete its migration, or I think what you're trying to
do will not work.
> - Dolphin can do FTP, but I have to repeat the login process several times
> until I see the destination files.
I've also noticed an error when I try to connect with ftp saying that the
connection failed, but then if I click on reload it connects fine.
> - I just tried to listen to a CD, but KsCD does not find it. The eject
> button ejects, but does not close the tray if pressed again. Okay. I just
> thought I could play CDs with KDE. Can you?
Yes, although KsCD looks and feels pretty clunky.
> - And I am currently editing a page in my wiki with konqueror, but after
> the dialog appeared that I should save the edits, it sort of hangs. I can
> reload the page, but cannot edit any more. The good thing is that I did
> not edit that much yet. Which is also a bad thing, because when editing
> longer parts I cop the text to the clipboard from time to time, just in
> case something crashes. I'm doing this with this mail, too.
> Hmm, looks like konqueror is still working just as usual, it's just it
> does no display updates at all. It's the first time it happened, but as it
> just happened while I was writing this rant, I thought I'd include it.
Haven't noticed this.
> - Of course, Amarok keeps doing weird things. At least I can play music
> from my collection. But playing a stream sometimes crashes it. And
> dragging files into Amarok always leads to a crash. Yeah, I know, Amarok
> is not KDE.
Given up on that long ago (and sadly have not found a nice replacement which
won't pull in the whole of Gnome or worse)
> But at least one bug was fixed, I got a mail from bugzilla about this
> today. It's the bug that makes password dialogs not work if the password
> is to be displayed as three bullets. Wow, nearly two months after it had
> been reported, this serious bug was at least confirmed to exist and is
> fixed now. Maybe this bug happens seldomly, but when it happens, much of
> KDE4 is unusable, as you have no kmail, no kwallet, nothing that needs a
> password works.
Hmm ... no such problem over here.
> Dale, you brave, brave man, are you really using KDE4 now?
>
> Wonko
>
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Regards,
Mick
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Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-24 2:27 [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here! Kevin O'Gorman
2010-02-24 2:36 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-24 3:38 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-02-24 5:41 ` ubiquitous1980
2010-02-24 13:33 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-02-25 0:10 ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-25 2:07 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-02-25 13:03 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-01 16:08 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-01 18:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-01 19:07 ` Dale
2010-03-01 19:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-01 20:26 ` Dale
2010-03-01 20:28 ` Mick
2010-03-01 21:17 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-01 23:17 ` Mick
2010-03-01 23:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 15:48 ` Paul Hartman
2010-03-03 16:43 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 11:27 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-03 16:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 17:30 ` stosss
2010-03-03 20:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 17:32 ` Paul Hartman
2010-03-03 19:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 17:54 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-04 14:12 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-09 20:12 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-09 21:07 ` Philip Webb
2010-03-11 9:25 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-12 1:59 ` Philip Webb
2010-03-12 6:59 ` Mick
2010-03-12 10:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-12 15:32 ` Paul Hartman
2010-03-13 11:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-09 21:52 ` Dale
2010-03-11 14:22 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-11 20:14 ` Dale
2010-03-12 9:27 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-09 22:20 ` Mick [this message]
2010-06-16 23:23 ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-17 13:31 ` Mick
2010-06-19 19:03 ` Alex Schuster
2010-04-22 14:58 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-01 20:34 ` Mick
2010-03-03 16:13 ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-24 13:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 13:41 ` Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
2010-02-24 14:12 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 14:23 ` Christian Schulze
2010-02-24 16:03 ` Dale
2010-02-24 16:17 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 16:47 ` Dale
2010-02-24 16:58 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 14:28 ` Crístian Viana
2010-02-24 14:46 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 15:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-24 16:43 ` Mike Edenfield
2010-02-24 16:52 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-25 20:55 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-24 16:59 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 17:08 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-24 17:53 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 17:57 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-24 18:31 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 18:12 ` Mike Edenfield
2010-02-24 18:32 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 21:25 ` Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
2010-02-25 4:17 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-02-25 4:22 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-02-25 9:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-25 19:45 ` Dale
2010-02-25 20:59 ` Frank Steinmetzger
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2010-06-19 20:23 [gentoo-user] " Alex Schuster
2010-06-20 15:52 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-06-28 22:50 ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-28 23:16 Mateusz Mierzwiński
2010-06-29 14:23 ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-29 14:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-06-29 22:40 ` Mick
2010-06-29 23:16 ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-29 23:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-06-30 6:23 ` Mick
2010-06-30 9:30 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-06-30 10:17 ` Mick
2010-06-30 10:35 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-06-30 0:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-06-30 10:46 ` Alex Schuster
2010-07-04 19:57 ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-29 15:45 Mateusz Mierzwiński
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2010-06-29 15:50 ` David W Noon
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