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 1QKBeT-0002RU-6e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 May 2011 15:48:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 383A21C01B; Wed, 11 May 2011 15:46:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D57BD1C01B for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 15:46:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyh5 with SMTP id 5so213303eyh.40 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 08:46:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=Way2axkBlS4Vyb9id0/5HZ3oqBNs/zF3IV8K+MWViR0=; b=Ko0hxeiVVX4V7IAOqwpweuK4a+Ns+wMtMbqDjFw1ilN5VXM+3URlkAeuopfaWwcIjT mWZ+SF7avRNAkU2vB1BuND09cPSaa0EDKLxYRsRwzgSnDNMXSzunlSWNj/eKcfJAaYh0 N6CQ1l7IZrDSr/WYRL0kiKAOMAWqk9cZnFKZI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Vd+5rBW/1PGdyhKWNv6ywG2BKN16QcrFf8QZa7xBCHHrjVd60y7qV1b16t5QQHODdZ gj03AtYuDMf2RQnPUnPrZl2kFdn8C6XvpkvfjJoI+m28H4WOc8POQarB1Efqm2CoBtBF nh7fOUdMn9zrvjOJLm0TZ+HiXQArJFL+/gfcU= Received: by 10.14.0.148 with SMTP id 20mr4514466eeb.0.1305128759950; Wed, 11 May 2011 08:45:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-114-244.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.114.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u6sm38031eeu.2.2011.05.11.08.45.57 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 11 May 2011 08:45:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone? Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 17:45:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-ck; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Indi References: <20110511150602.GA2423@gaurahari> In-Reply-To: <20110511150602.GA2423@gaurahari> 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: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105111745.07919.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d4821e6194c58084a29206656575a3d7 Apparently, though unproven, at 17:06 on Wednesday 11 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 04:50:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > It uses hardly any cpu at all, regardless of what the naysayers say. > > Well, add me to the "naysayers" list then, because my experience directly > contradicts that statement. Much happier with fluxbox, completely finished > fooling with the kde. semantic desktop equates to nepomuk If you do something really thick with the backend (virtuoso currently) it will go beserk. Full strigi indexing will keep your disk busy all day - what else could it do if you want a full text indexed search of 300GB of file in ~ like many users have these days? > I still don't understand why the kde folks went from something that > worked extremely well to their current state. Baffling. KDE3 and KDE4 are not the same thing. KDE4 is not the next version of KDE3. You must consider KDE4 to be a completely new product, unrelated to KDE3 in any meaningful way except that many KDE4 devs used to work on a different project called KDE3. Like all software, KDE4 is not for everyone - like you for example. But there's nothing stopping you from maintaining KDE3 yourself. Why did the devs switch? Market pressures really. If you don't spot emerging trends and follow them early, you run the risk of becoming redundant very quickly. Ask Microsoft, they know all about this. They went from the undisputed behemoth market leader to staring the very real threat of total obsolescence in three very short years. KDE devs decided to take the risk and make the jump ahead of the curve. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com