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 1Np7nQ-0003t0-2e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:21:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBC5AE0C98; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:20:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com (mail-bw0-f219.google.com [209.85.218.219]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B186E0C98 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:20:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so1204137bwz.26 for ; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:20:25 -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=G9KdO1PaOtBZz15v9KUvFUUy5FDVgPXHiUBvu0Ja8mk=; b=Kl6Tt7CBCryPPVf9dMScL4CcO1vUV1ka/xV53Fs7l7NtFpTF926TWMhy4Z1kWp5PIb jlSe86ysuOzMHqOr/rP+ERRB07C/XenojKcLpjUDrs/2gBy20wukcBZ3HWkAIA8LY0lm 3Q2akLeyCUPgQveDFYudGB5CoRj307WksQWNg= 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=clUwtOLI4ztPVoiBulOdMGc0QTLB8QkbVBydmcFOs7i0GYKRELgZLzP2tfjFyVgX4G VUGleP+xQ0r2ulcWaKVUv1WvZeXXr9mTq/PkOKjsJMlDMYmplpbj4RQD1tOcXumWXHzl iXXRL0mzlFNtAzUUpiFQqd2OUGVXYJMYJYc8g= Received: by 10.204.21.197 with SMTP id k5mr640274bkb.28.1268173225473; Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:20:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm24199704bkr.0.2010.03.09.14.20.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:20:24 -0800 (PST) From: Mick 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r10; KDE/4.3.5; i686; ; ) References: <9acccfe51002231827q26e94e64s7f29ec46b6675156@mail.gmail.com> <201003041512.48561.wonko@wonkology.org> <201003092112.14250.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <201003092112.14250.wonko@wonkology.org> 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="nextPart2568576.dcVjaNNynK"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003092220.21599.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 5ff7e767-444f-4730-a195-c1ca0733b8fc X-Archives-Hash: 6820ec80adee66525e3d1d6bac5d7fed --nextPart2568576.dcVjaNNynK Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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:) >=20 > 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. >=20 > - 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.=20 Did you try to create a local resource using your systemsettings and point = it=20 to the local KDE3.5 contacts file? If you restart the address book, then=20 akonadi will kick in a carry out the migration - if it does not succeed it= =20 will tell you so. In that case you may need to fix things manually (I've=20 posted how in an older thread of mine, where I managed to make akonadi to=20 succeed in its migration from a local resource file using sqlite - I don't= =20 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.=20 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=20 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=20 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 whic= h=20 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? >=20 > Wonko >=20 =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2568576.dcVjaNNynK 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) iEYEABECAAYFAkuWyaUACgkQVTDTR3kpaLb1/QCdFWwzlimJqbaYmrBc3DwJBiWK MAsAoJfyqBziDOiqQwEb3v+a6bwmSq/S =WKFg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2568576.dcVjaNNynK--