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 1MkHfA-0001B1-JY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:20:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CCAEE09BB; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 13:20:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f185.google.com (mail-yw0-f185.google.com [209.85.211.185]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE2D8E09BB for ; Sun, 6 Sep 2009 13:20:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh15 with SMTP id 15so3187346ywh.10 for ; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:20:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Sz5FcTYNBA/YFAdCDiz4SQeVqSO05WhAPf1mGS/qgT4=; b=TCckuzS/nQf0MDTGAGj21S8Wmk1TTXmRAsc4X5gR3NdFlTJfG3iTyPnpFAysfJhY9R Bbv4fUJp1utUcLV1thiewC3GkKvfduXAMwZPTGQ/fFkaQMECyara/9MmMUaiuVrtiApV lZl7VxBp+2c1QDH1btt3iZJbi0ufyWl2zSsJ8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=w/nJVGTVh2w4wKMD3Qv8IbhnJDTpaiEw1nmISKL+t8mI+bK9EvKUrNhH5AQFlUuZ+9 PzWpOdsfhvDfTZ+O8K4KKLaaIzq+Bw/InXeGOyWpTCXb1hAzNG9QXafH4cPAtyEMUMps kLg+558jgTraJiFzISHLQKUW5iGWKR9l88lLc= Received: by 10.90.129.15 with SMTP id b15mr10228370agd.64.1252243210563; Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:20:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-222-83-87.jan.bellsouth.net [68.222.83.87]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm1470715yxe.1.2009.09.06.06.20.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AA3B708.7020506@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:20:08 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090905 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure. References: <4AA235B9.90306@gmail.com> <200909060930.24778.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4AA37595.1050709@gmail.com> <200909061149.13087.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200909061149.13087.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c1278465-5420-40e7-bd65-5722d168dc59 X-Archives-Hash: c7d61002732bbb7ec78d46ae269c71fe Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:40:53 Dale wrote: > >>> Recent kde-libs-3.5 have a hard dependency on zeroconf/nDSNResponder. A >>> contentious decision at the time >>> >>> KDE-4 uses avahi >>> >>> >>> >> There is hope for the future, if I ever get to liking KDE 4. I got KDE >> 4.3 installed but just ain't warmed up to it yet. :\ >> > > KDE-4 takes some getting used to, but it's worth the effort if you like a rich > interactive desktop. > > One thing it definitely is not, is the next evolution of KDE-3. Comparisons > with KDE-3 are going result in disappointment :-) Better to consider it for > what it is - a project that stands alone and should be judged on it's own > merits. > > I was thinking it would have to grow on me a little . One thing I don't like is how it does the background. I have a directory that has thousands of pictures, I'm a little camera hungry at times, but each time I login it rebuilds the index which takes a long time. I just hope that that will improve later on and a few other things will get better as well. It's OK but just not there for me yet. Maybe 4.4 will be better. Dale :-) :-)