[gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

[gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

[Alan Grimes]

I have not seen KDE add a single feature or even fix a single bug (while
letting new bugs pile up) in FIVE YEARS. They version bump their entire
suite for no reason every five minutes but nothing gets even slightly
better. KDE has'nt been worth anything since the QT4 cataclysm, 3.59 was
pretty darn good. =\ Kdevelop3 only needed to be restarted once a
week... You could binge program with it for an ENTIRE WEEK without
restarting it... It had some wonderful class inheratance heirarchy
graphing tools so that you could learn codebases nice and quick and go
in and refactor them.

Unfortunately I don't think even Don Corleone could get me a programming
job. =(

How did they make it so that 40% of ordinary zip files I try to open
with konqueror fail CRC (but work perfectly from the command line)....

It used to have nice large icon mode with previews, and nice small-icons
in normal mode... Broken too for many months now. =\

Akregator crashes all the time if I simply try to close a tab... It went
about three years without saving anything to disk when it's supposed to
buffer my RSS feeds. Now it's just crashtastic in the extreme...

FVWM seems to need an update for the new X11, icons still broken, can't
fullscreen a window properly anymore. -- Used to work great far like
FIFTEEN FRIGGIN YEARS WITHOUT USER INTERVENTION!!!!!

Microsoft must be paying Good Money (tm) to the FS developers to keep
breaking stuff at this rate. =|

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

[Andrew Udvare]

> On 2018-11-03, at 00:43, Alan Grimes <alonzotg@verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> I have not seen KDE add a single feature or even fix a single bug (while
> letting new bugs pile up) in FIVE YEARS. They version bump their entire
> suite for no reason every five minutes but nothing gets even slightly
> better. KDE has'nt been worth anything since the QT4 cataclysm, 3.59 was
> pretty darn good. =\ Kdevelop3 only needed to be restarted once a
> week... You could binge program with it for an ENTIRE WEEK without
> restarting it... It had some wonderful class inheratance heirarchy
> graphing tools so that you could learn codebases nice and quick and go
> in and refactor them.

There are a lot of new features in KDE but you may not be aware of them or you do not care for them. But a lot of KDE 4's changes was to upgrade to KDE 4 without inheriting the code issues of Qt 3/KDE 3.5 code (KF5 continues this with Qt 5). Also with KF5 they are splitting up the code base so that it can be used in a more modular form. Prior to KF5, using KDE code in other projects was almost impossible without being dependent on the very large kdelibs library (which is an issue on other platforms as well where loading that many libraries at launch time takes a while).

My main criticism of KDE 4 and onward is the introduction of Akonadi. I've never had much success with it especially with KMail.

> How did they make it so that 40% of ordinary zip files I try to open
> with konqueror fail CRC (but work perfectly from the command line)....
> 
> It used to have nice large icon mode with previews, and nice small-icons
> in normal mode... Broken too for many months now. =\
 
You have to give up on Konqueror as a file manager. It just doesn't get much support for that anymore. I've abandoned Konqueror completely as it's far behind as a web browser compared to Firefox/Chrome.

Dolphinpart which runs within Konqueror to make it a file manager is almost the same as Dolphin. Although there are things that annoy me in Dolphin, it gets more maintenance and a bug report is much more likely to be addressed.

> 
> Akregator crashes all the time if I simply try to close a tab... It went
> about three years without saving anything to disk when it's supposed to
> buffer my RSS feeds. Now it's just crashtastic in the extreme...

Even Google completely dropped their RSS reader. I have my doubts that this app gets a lot of maintenance.
> 
> Microsoft must be paying Good Money (tm) to the FS developers to keep
> breaking stuff at this rate. =|

Trouble is afoot! Given the track record of late (like owning GitHub) I don't think so.

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

[wabe]

Alan Grimes <alonzotg@verizon.net> wrote:

> I have not seen KDE add a single feature or even fix a single bug
> (while letting new bugs pile up) in FIVE YEARS. They version bump
> their entire suite for no reason every five minutes but nothing gets
> even slightly better. KDE has'nt been worth anything since the QT4
> cataclysm, 3.59 was pretty darn good. =\ Kdevelop3 only needed to be
> restarted once a week... You could binge program with it for an
> ENTIRE WEEK without restarting it... It had some wonderful class
> inheratance heirarchy graphing tools so that you could learn
> codebases nice and quick and go in and refactor them.

After KDE3 wasn't supported any longer and KDE4 was unusable in my 
opinion, I tested IceWM, Windowmaker and Sawfish/Sawmill. Finally I 
switched to XFCE which I still use.

I would like to try Trinity Desktop (based on KDE3) but unfortunately 
there is no Gentoo package. I don't know if there is an Gentoo overlay 
containing Trinity, but I never used overlays and don't have time to 
fiddle around anyway.

https://www.trinitydesktop.org

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday, 3 November 2018 16:28:58 GMT wabe wrote:

> I would like to try Trinity Desktop (based on KDE3) but unfortunately
> there is no Gentoo package. I don't know if there is an Gentoo overlay
> containing Trinity, but I never used overlays and don't have time to
> fiddle around anyway.

In that case, from what I've seen I'd say you shouldn't even wonder about 
trinity. You'd have to go back a long way with all manner of programs, and 
even then perhaps not get everything you want.

/2p

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

[Dale]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 November 2018 16:28:58 GMT wabe wrote:
>
>> I would like to try Trinity Desktop (based on KDE3) but unfortunately
>> there is no Gentoo package. I don't know if there is an Gentoo overlay
>> containing Trinity, but I never used overlays and don't have time to
>> fiddle around anyway.
> In that case, from what I've seen I'd say you shouldn't even wonder about 
> trinity. You'd have to go back a long way with all manner of programs, and 
> even then perhaps not get everything you want.
>
> /2p
>


I installed KDE3 for a friend with a very low powered computer several
years ago.  At the time, it was in the sunset overlay.  Even then it was
a headache and took some effort to install.  Some newer programs outside
of KDE wanted newer versions of libs and KDE3 wanted older ones.  I had
to install older versions of several programs just to make KDE3 happy. 
Given the changes that have been made over the years since, I doubt it
is doable.  I seem to recall that KDE3 wasn't well maintained back then
and figure it may even be worse now if it is maintained at all with
regards to Gentoo. 

If had to do a install today for a low powered system, I'd find
something besides KDE3 even tho I still miss some things about it too. 
There's plenty of more maintained desktops out there to look at. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

[Mick]

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On Saturday, 3 November 2018 22:44:32 GMT Dale wrote:
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Saturday, 3 November 2018 16:28:58 GMT wabe wrote:
> >> I would like to try Trinity Desktop (based on KDE3) but unfortunately
> >> there is no Gentoo package. I don't know if there is an Gentoo overlay
> >> containing Trinity, but I never used overlays and don't have time to
> >> fiddle around anyway.
> > 
> > In that case, from what I've seen I'd say you shouldn't even wonder about
> > trinity. You'd have to go back a long way with all manner of programs, and
> > even then perhaps not get everything you want.
> > 
> > /2p
> 
> I installed KDE3 for a friend with a very low powered computer several
> years ago.  At the time, it was in the sunset overlay.  Even then it was
> a headache and took some effort to install.  Some newer programs outside
> of KDE wanted newer versions of libs and KDE3 wanted older ones.  I had
> to install older versions of several programs just to make KDE3 happy. 
> Given the changes that have been made over the years since, I doubt it
> is doable.  I seem to recall that KDE3 wasn't well maintained back then
> and figure it may even be worse now if it is maintained at all with
> regards to Gentoo. 
> 
> If had to do a install today for a low powered system, I'd find
> something besides KDE3 even tho I still miss some things about it too. 
> There's plenty of more maintained desktops out there to look at. 
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 

I also liked KDE-3 more than anything which succeeded it from the KDE stable 
and have mourned its passing.  I also particularly liked Konqueror's 
integration with file management.  The current Konqueror maintainer is trying 
single-handedly to keep it running as a simple browser and does not have the 
(human) resources to recreate the FM functionality of KDE 3 on it.  He has 
asked for devs to join him, but had no takers.

I've tried Trinity in the past, but at the time it was nowhere near developed 
enough to use on a daily basis.

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

[Dale]

Mick wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 November 2018 22:44:32 GMT Dale wrote:
>> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 3 November 2018 16:28:58 GMT wabe wrote:
>>>> I would like to try Trinity Desktop (based on KDE3) but unfortunately
>>>> there is no Gentoo package. I don't know if there is an Gentoo overlay
>>>> containing Trinity, but I never used overlays and don't have time to
>>>> fiddle around anyway.
>>> In that case, from what I've seen I'd say you shouldn't even wonder about
>>> trinity. You'd have to go back a long way with all manner of programs, and
>>> even then perhaps not get everything you want.
>>>
>>> /2p
>> I installed KDE3 for a friend with a very low powered computer several
>> years ago.  At the time, it was in the sunset overlay.  Even then it was
>> a headache and took some effort to install.  Some newer programs outside
>> of KDE wanted newer versions of libs and KDE3 wanted older ones.  I had
>> to install older versions of several programs just to make KDE3 happy. 
>> Given the changes that have been made over the years since, I doubt it
>> is doable.  I seem to recall that KDE3 wasn't well maintained back then
>> and figure it may even be worse now if it is maintained at all with
>> regards to Gentoo. 
>>
>> If had to do a install today for a low powered system, I'd find
>> something besides KDE3 even tho I still miss some things about it too. 
>> There's plenty of more maintained desktops out there to look at. 
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-) 
> I also liked KDE-3 more than anything which succeeded it from the KDE stable 
> and have mourned its passing.  I also particularly liked Konqueror's 
> integration with file management.  The current Konqueror maintainer is trying 
> single-handedly to keep it running as a simple browser and does not have the 
> (human) resources to recreate the FM functionality of KDE 3 on it.  He has 
> asked for devs to join him, but had no takers.
>
> I've tried Trinity in the past, but at the time it was nowhere near developed 
> enough to use on a daily basis.
>


Dolphin stopped allowing root access a while back.  When that happened,
I starting looking for another file manager that isn't constantly making
changes that don't work for me.  Currently I'm using Krusader.  It works
as root so I can edit files in /etc, /root and such.  While I get that
in most distros that setting may be good, it isn't for Gentoo where we
have to edit files as root.  I also have a couple others installed as a
backup to Krusader. 

One thing that concerns me about Konqueror and KDE3, security issues. 
Unless there is enough people involved to fix security issues, they
shouldn't be used at least for anything network/internet related
depending on the situation of course.  One should always consider
security fixes. 

I suspect there isn't enough people wanting Trinity on Gentoo is the
reason it isn't available.  That said, if it was and was well
maintained, I'd certainly give it a look.  Sadly tho, I think
Trinity/KDE3 was be dying at some point. 

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

[Philip Webb]

181105 Dale wrote:
> Currently I'm using Krusader.  It works as root,
> so I can edit files in /etc, /root and such.

I can recommend Krusader to any KDE user.
I do most file management from CLI, but sometimes need heavy lifting.
If anyone tries it, they should look into its many features :
there's a PDF help doc available.

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

[Dale]

Philip Webb wrote:
> 181105 Dale wrote:
>> Currently I'm using Krusader.  It works as root,
>> so I can edit files in /etc, /root and such.
> I can recommend Krusader to any KDE user.
> I do most file management from CLI, but sometimes need heavy lifting.
> If anyone tries it, they should look into its many features :
> there's a PDF help doc available.
>


That's my thinking as well.  It is different from Konqueror but it does
the job pretty well and seems to be pretty light and fast.  The biggest
thing, it allows running as root. 

I've been really busy recently.  My Mom was in the hospital for several
weeks, that's a long time here.  After that, she was in a nursing home
trying to get her strength back and had a few set backs while there. 
She comes home tomorrow and is in better shape than she was over a year
ago.  Maybe even a couple years ago.  That has kept me busy and pretty
much wore out at times.  I have health issues of my own.  So, I haven't
been able to really dig deep into Krusader as yet.  Basically, I got it
to where I can edit files in /etc and /root and pretty much left it as
is.  The one thing I'd like to change, being able to click/double click
on a file and it open.  That's how Dolphin and the old Konqueror was set
up.  As it is, you have to hit F4 to edit which opens Kwrite/Kate
depending on settings for text files.  I also wish it wouldn't separate
the file name and the extension.  I prefer them to be together.  Heck, I
might use Krusader as a regular user if I could get that last one
configured right.  ;-) 

I really do need to research that more.  Do you have a link to that
pdf?  I'm on version 2.7.1. but any recent version would be nice. 

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

[dsonck]

On 2018-11-05 21:40, Dale wrote:
> Philip Webb wrote:
>> 181105 Dale wrote:
>>> Currently I'm using Krusader.  It works as root,
>>> so I can edit files in /etc, /root and such.
>> I can recommend Krusader to any KDE user.
>> I do most file management from CLI, but sometimes need heavy lifting.
>> If anyone tries it, they should look into its many features :
>> there's a PDF help doc available.
>> 
> 
> 
> That's my thinking as well.  It is different from Konqueror but it does
> the job pretty well and seems to be pretty light and fast.  The biggest
> thing, it allows running as root. 
> 
> I've been really busy recently.  My Mom was in the hospital for several
> weeks, that's a long time here.  After that, she was in a nursing home
> trying to get her strength back and had a few set backs while there. 
> She comes home tomorrow and is in better shape than she was over a year
> ago.  Maybe even a couple years ago.  That has kept me busy and pretty
> much wore out at times.  I have health issues of my own.  So, I haven't
> been able to really dig deep into Krusader as yet.  Basically, I got it
> to where I can edit files in /etc and /root and pretty much left it as
> is.  The one thing I'd like to change, being able to click/double click
> on a file and it open.  That's how Dolphin and the old Konqueror was 
> set
> up.  As it is, you have to hit F4 to edit which opens Kwrite/Kate
> depending on settings for text files.  I also wish it wouldn't separate
> the file name and the extension.  I prefer them to be together.  Heck, 
> I
> might use Krusader as a regular user if I could get that last one
> configured right.  ;-) 
> 
> I really do need to research that more.  Do you have a link to that
> pdf?  I'm on version 2.7.1. but any recent version would be nice. 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)

I've been reading through this discussion and seen several references to 
"run as root". As I've been guilty of doing that myself for a while (and 
not realizing it was actually actively prevented since some time), I 
decided to look into the reasoning why it's not possible anymore.

Apparently, it wasn't taken lightheartedly. The reasoning behind it was 
that the terminal (which also has root now) can be activated and used by 
injecting keystrokes (through XTest). Whether that's a concern of the 
end user is up for them to decide (if you don't allow any external party 
to access your system by not allowing ssh etc. you'd basically be 
perfectly safe), but it's an interesting backdoor. However, KDE also 
planned to bring in a more fine-grained approach by allowing KIO to use 
PolicyKit to allow editing of restricted files. This would mean that 
Dolphin, KWrite and Kate all get their "root" back, but in the form of a 
"you require elevated rights to do this, please specify your password" 
which can be protected better.

Then again, this raises the issue of whether PolicyKit is such a great 
feature. I've been having problems with that myself as it can and will 
be DoS'd when it gets too many requests (had a rogue libvirt client 
which did several requests all of which needed to go through PolicyKit 
to verify access). While the failure mode is safe, it will block any 
attempt at authorizing, it's a big nuisance because other things may 
depend on it.

Lastly, Qt also advises against being used under root due to the sheer 
scope of the project which would mean that even krusader might not be 
totally safe.

I wanted to share this for those that read this discussion to reiterate 
the implications allowing root, and allowing it in these GUI 
applications. Of course, if it works for you and you don't see any risk, 
by any means go for it. But also keep in mind that there are apparently 
fair reasons behind this change. That said, I also started to look into 
krusader and I might use it more.

Greetings,

Daniel Sonck

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

[Dale]

dsonck wrote:
> On 2018-11-05 21:40, Dale wrote:
>> Philip Webb wrote:
>>> 181105 Dale wrote:
>>>> Currently I'm using Krusader.  It works as root,
>>>> so I can edit files in /etc, /root and such.
>>> I can recommend Krusader to any KDE user.
>>> I do most file management from CLI, but sometimes need heavy lifting.
>>> If anyone tries it, they should look into its many features :
>>> there's a PDF help doc available.
>>>
>>
>>
>> That's my thinking as well.  It is different from Konqueror but it does
>> the job pretty well and seems to be pretty light and fast.  The biggest
>> thing, it allows running as root. 
>>
>> I've been really busy recently.  My Mom was in the hospital for several
>> weeks, that's a long time here.  After that, she was in a nursing home
>> trying to get her strength back and had a few set backs while there. 
>> She comes home tomorrow and is in better shape than she was over a year
>> ago.  Maybe even a couple years ago.  That has kept me busy and pretty
>> much wore out at times.  I have health issues of my own.  So, I haven't
>> been able to really dig deep into Krusader as yet.  Basically, I got it
>> to where I can edit files in /etc and /root and pretty much left it as
>> is.  The one thing I'd like to change, being able to click/double click
>> on a file and it open.  That's how Dolphin and the old Konqueror was set
>> up.  As it is, you have to hit F4 to edit which opens Kwrite/Kate
>> depending on settings for text files.  I also wish it wouldn't separate
>> the file name and the extension.  I prefer them to be together.  Heck, I
>> might use Krusader as a regular user if I could get that last one
>> configured right.  ;-) 
>>
>> I really do need to research that more.  Do you have a link to that
>> pdf?  I'm on version 2.7.1. but any recent version would be nice. 
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>
> I've been reading through this discussion and seen several references
> to "run as root". As I've been guilty of doing that myself for a while
> (and not realizing it was actually actively prevented since some
> time), I decided to look into the reasoning why it's not possible
> anymore.
>
> Apparently, it wasn't taken lightheartedly. The reasoning behind it
> was that the terminal (which also has root now) can be activated and
> used by injecting keystrokes (through XTest). Whether that's a concern
> of the end user is up for them to decide (if you don't allow any
> external party to access your system by not allowing ssh etc. you'd
> basically be perfectly safe), but it's an interesting backdoor.
> However, KDE also planned to bring in a more fine-grained approach by
> allowing KIO to use PolicyKit to allow editing of restricted files.
> This would mean that Dolphin, KWrite and Kate all get their "root"
> back, but in the form of a "you require elevated rights to do this,
> please specify your password" which can be protected better.
>
> Then again, this raises the issue of whether PolicyKit is such a great
> feature. I've been having problems with that myself as it can and will
> be DoS'd when it gets too many requests (had a rogue libvirt client
> which did several requests all of which needed to go through PolicyKit
> to verify access). While the failure mode is safe, it will block any
> attempt at authorizing, it's a big nuisance because other things may
> depend on it.
>
> Lastly, Qt also advises against being used under root due to the sheer
> scope of the project which would mean that even krusader might not be
> totally safe.
>
> I wanted to share this for those that read this discussion to
> reiterate the implications allowing root, and allowing it in these GUI
> applications. Of course, if it works for you and you don't see any
> risk, by any means go for it. But also keep in mind that there are
> apparently fair reasons behind this change. That said, I also started
> to look into krusader and I might use it more.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Daniel Sonck
>
>


I've read that too plus that some distros just don't need root much if
any.  Thing is, with Gentoo, root is required at times.  Sometimes, it
is the only way to edit certain files.  Since I am almost always in a
GUI, I prefer to use GUI tools, plus it is much easier to copy and paste
as well.  That said, I don't have ssh open here.  I only have one system
anyway so there is nothing to ssh in with.  I also only open Krusader as
root for short periods of time.  Generally, during OS updates which I'm
about two or three weeks late on I think.  While it is safe for me, it
may not be for others.  Either way, sometimes you have to be root while
doing updates.  With Gentoo, it is just that way. 

As you rightly point out tho, in some situations, doing that could open
a door.  If one has those situations, they may want to either wait for a
better solution or access those files some other way, nano on a console
or something.  As with anything, ones has to take into account
security.  Of course, I'm on DSL and behind a router which adds some
additional protection as well.  Others may not be or be connected in a
much less secure way, public WiFi even. 

To really scare you good.  I can recall a time when I logged into KDE as
root.  Yep, the entire KDE session was root.  That was disabled ages ago
I think.  For a while one could change a config file to enable it but
not sure about now.  Looking back, I'm glad I didn't have any important
data or things I didn't want to be hacked into.  Talk about opening the
front door.  Heck, it was like adding a 'come hack me' sign on the lawn
as well.  ROFL 

Oh how things have changed.  Some better, some not so much.  ;-) 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday, 5 November 2018 20:40:46 GMT Dale wrote:

> ... I also wish it wouldn't separate the file name and the extension.  I
> prefer them to be together.

Right-click on the column header row and deselect Ext.

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Regards,
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

[Dale]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday, 5 November 2018 20:40:46 GMT Dale wrote:
>
>> ... I also wish it wouldn't separate the file name and the extension.  I
>> prefer them to be together.
> Right-click on the column header row and deselect Ext.
>


That's to simple.  I want something harder.  ROFL  Phillip sent me the
PDF manual and I've been looking through it but couldn't find anything. 
I haven't been able to spend a lot of time on it yet tho.  Still, I was
looking for a setting or some fix that goes in a config somewhere.  I
never thought it would be that easy. 

Thanks much.  Krusader just may replace Dolphin all together.  It has
its good points for sure. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday, 6 November 2018 18:52:13 GMT Dale wrote:
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Monday, 5 November 2018 20:40:46 GMT Dale wrote:
> >> ... I also wish it wouldn't separate the file name and the extension.  I
> >> prefer them to be together.
> > 
> > Right-click on the column header row and deselect Ext.
> 
> That's to simple.  I want something harder.  ROFL  Phillip sent me the
> PDF manual and I've been looking through it but couldn't find anything. 
> I haven't been able to spend a lot of time on it yet tho.  Still, I was
> looking for a setting or some fix that goes in a config somewhere.  I
> never thought it would be that easy. 
> 
> Thanks much.  Krusader just may replace Dolphin all together.  It has
> its good points for sure. 

Glad to be of service. Meanwhile, I went looking for key bindings, preferring 
to work at the keyboard when I can. I found page after page of them by 
searching for "krusader key bindings" in the F1 help. I wish I hadn't asked!   
It's almost as though the program designer wanted to challenge that other OS-
in-an-editor, emacs.   :)

-- 
Regards,
Peter.

[gentoo-user] Re: What's with KDE?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-11-03, wabe <wabenbau@gmail.com> wrote:

> After KDE3 wasn't supported any longer and KDE4 was unusable in my 
> opinion, I tested IceWM, Windowmaker and Sawfish/Sawmill. Finally I 
> switched to XFCE which I still use.

I used XFCE for many, many years.  But, I was forced to give up on it
a few years ago when it stopped supporting multiple screens.  I've
been using openbox since then.

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[gentoo-user] Re: What's with KDE?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 03/11/2018 06:43, Alan Grimes wrote:
> How did they make it so that 40% of ordinary zip files I try to open
> with konqueror fail CRC (but work perfectly from the command line)....
> 
> It used to have nice large icon mode with previews, and nice small-icons
> in normal mode... Broken too for many months now. =\
> 
> Akregator crashes all the time if I simply try to close a tab... It went
> about three years without saving anything to disk when it's supposed to
> buffer my RSS feeds. Now it's just crashtastic in the extreme...

Plasma in itself is not too bad. I use Plasma, but not Konqueror or 
Akregator. Find the applications that work best for you. Just because 
you use Plasma doesn't mean you need to use the rest of KDE's 
applications ;-)

My browser is Firefox, my email client is Thunderbird, my image viewer 
is eog (Eye of GNOME), etc, etc.

I think my only KDE application is my file manager, which is Dolphin.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's with KDE?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday, 5 November 2018 16:35:09 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> I think my only KDE application is my file manager, which is Dolphin.

Wot, not even kmail?   ;)

-- 
Regards,
Peter.

[gentoo-user] Re: What's with KDE?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 05/11/2018 19:07, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday, 5 November 2018 16:35:09 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> 
>> I think my only KDE application is my file manager, which is Dolphin.
> 
> Wot, not even kmail?   ;)

Nope. When I try to emerge kmail, I get this:

https://pastebin.com/raw/H2QG6vzg

And I run away screaming like a little child that's just been told Santa 
Claus died violently in a horrible car crash...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's with KDE?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 05 Nov 2018 17:07:55 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> > I think my only KDE application is my file manager, which is
> > Dolphin.  
> 
> Wot, not even kmail?   ;)

Especially not KMail! Most of the KDE-related problems posted to this
list involve KMail.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

deja noo - reminds you of the last time you visited Scotland

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's with KDE?

[R0b0t1]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 5:36 PM Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/11/2018 06:43, Alan Grimes wrote:
> > How did they make it so that 40% of ordinary zip files I try to open
> > with konqueror fail CRC (but work perfectly from the command line)....
> >
> > It used to have nice large icon mode with previews, and nice small-icons
> > in normal mode... Broken too for many months now. =\
> >
> > Akregator crashes all the time if I simply try to close a tab... It went
> > about three years without saving anything to disk when it's supposed to
> > buffer my RSS feeds. Now it's just crashtastic in the extreme...
>
> Plasma in itself is not too bad. I use Plasma, but not Konqueror or
> Akregator. Find the applications that work best for you. Just because
> you use Plasma doesn't mean you need to use the rest of KDE's
> applications ;-)
>
> My browser is Firefox, my email client is Thunderbird, my image viewer
> is eog (Eye of GNOME), etc, etc.
>
> I think my only KDE application is my file manager, which is Dolphin.
>

Plasma has some rough patches but the code quality is a lot better
than previous KDE frameworks. It improves regularly, so please keep
complaints current.

I do understand though - it has gotten a bit less stable since I last
tried it, but I think it is time to try it again. For my daily driver
I tend to use i3 though.

Cheers,
    R0b0t1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's with KDE?

[Samuraiii]

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On 5.11.2018 17:35, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 03/11/2018 06:43, Alan Grimes wrote:
>> How did they make it so that 40% of ordinary zip files I try to open
>> with konqueror fail CRC (but work perfectly from the command line)....
>>
>> It used to have nice large icon mode with previews, and nice small-icons
>> in normal mode... Broken too for many months now. =\
>>
>> Akregator crashes all the time if I simply try to close a tab... It went
>> about three years without saving anything to disk when it's supposed to
>> buffer my RSS feeds. Now it's just crashtastic in the extreme...
>
> Plasma in itself is not too bad. I use Plasma, but not Konqueror or
> Akregator. Find the applications that work best for you. Just because
> you use Plasma doesn't mean you need to use the rest of KDE's
> applications ;-)
>
> My browser is Firefox, my email client is Thunderbird, my image viewer
> is eog (Eye of GNOME), etc, etc.
>
> I think my only KDE application is my file manager, which is Dolphin.
>
>
I use plasma since it got stable (on KDEish stuff since gnome 3)...

It is getting better with each emerge.

I also dropped Konqueror as file manager, first because it was ~ for a
time and the features was not that much needed as before.

And Firefox and Thunderbird is also my choice.

I usually tend to try to find QT5 based app* before other alternative
but eventually I land by best working one (kdiff compared to Meld, and
so on).


S

* even if it means using ~version



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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's with KDE?

[Davyd McColl]

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On 2018-11-06 10:54:38, Samuraiii <samurai.no.dojo@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5.11.2018 17:35, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

On 03/11/2018 06:43, Alan Grimes wrote:

How did they make it so that 40% of ordinary zip files I try to open
with konqueror fail CRC (but work perfectly from the command line)....

It used to have nice large icon mode with previews, and nice small-icons
in normal mode... Broken too for many months now. =\

Akregator crashes all the time if I simply try to close a tab... It went
about three years without saving anything to disk when it's supposed to
buffer my RSS feeds. Now it's just crashtastic in the extreme...


Plasma in itself is not too bad. I use Plasma, but not Konqueror or Akregator. Find the applications that work best for you. Just because you use Plasma doesn't mean you need to use the rest of KDE's applications ;-)

My browser is Firefox, my email client is Thunderbird, my image viewer is eog (Eye of GNOME), etc, etc.

I think my only KDE application is my file manager, which is Dolphin.



I use plasma since it got stable (on KDEish stuff since gnome 3)...
It is getting better with each emerge.
I also dropped Konqueror as file manager, first because it was ~ for a time and the features was not that much needed as before.
And Firefox and Thunderbird is also my choice.
I usually tend to try to find QT5 based app* before other alternative but eventually I land by best working one (kdiff compared to Meld, and so on).

S

* even if it means using ~version
I've been watching this thread -- didn't want to bring up plasma since there's been a lot of people who don't like it. When plasma first hit, it was a ball of crud -- slow, crashy, inconsistent, memory hog. However, it's been quite a while since then and, though I can't say that it's super-light on memory, it's not bad memory-wise, if you have the ram to spare (currently using around 160mb on my machine, 1 panel, a small handful of widgets). I also haven't really experienced the 'crashy" part in a while, though at its peak, I wrote a watchdog script for it. It looks good to me and there are themes which are flatter (my preference) or with more relief, as expressed as a preference elsewhere in this thread. Dolphin is (imo) quite good (does dual-pane too) and I stick to FF for web browsing. I'd heartily recommend qterminal over konsole, simply because it's lighter and faster (think aterm with pretty fonts). QDirStat is a real winner.

If you're not on a ram-constrained machine (think < 2gig), then I'd recommend plasma. I can't speak to "native" dev environments as I tend towards the JetBrains spectrum (WebStorm, Rider, etc) and VSCode.

The one blocker to note is that plasma expects a hardware-accelerated desktop. I found it to be incredibly unstable with the Nouveau drivers and super-slow with drivers like fb. I don't think you need super-special hardware -- even a reasonably modern Intel GPU might suffice -- but it's something to consider.

-d



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