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 1NmAyW-000709-Sw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:08:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97D3AE0D38; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 19:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f182.google.com (mail-yw0-f182.google.com [209.85.211.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BDCFE0D38 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 19:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh12 with SMTP id 12so1146530ywh.10 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:07:25 -0800 (PST) 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=7GzLwQ19KTnFfLOD3w1W1+AMGoPWeMiZp/K83BncHVE=; b=BPuBseCJgNBKPOd/h6UrkQeFxq33f9JOpQpH2Wlri9unT3GAPS1KsHQWzKqVZO3ovv uxXh/6OFZO8134lGiax+LWBP96GHSdsbZXvBrtNvvwaIo2cEBBGRRHEbAlxVTw2cHHOd Ua99PFEURIz9FJYAICU8eoP2m7xYTLSski3A0= 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=kmiL64nnDU95C+kw2d0/5WItNSx5Wd+RQNEHRLz6IoVZfd+AVkk+CD9i0sPiTACfC1 exzEMMCzAbXhh3Az9ZdigfnVdbhTEatCQmBavgvFDog6UWjk1UR8yohd3I6cRNPKT0dL DQo3zgx50OAIazNZ9YRINXrtnaOcjtXtbEA5I= Received: by 10.90.38.27 with SMTP id l27mr1974192agl.6.1267470443545; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:07:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-94-66.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.94.66]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm2733558gxk.11.2010.03.01.11.07.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:07:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B8C1066.8030908@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:07:18 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100223 Gentoo/2.0.2 SeaMonkey/2.0.2 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] KDE? Get me out of here! References: <9acccfe51002231827q26e94e64s7f29ec46b6675156@mail.gmail.com> <201002250110.20777.wonko@wonkology.org> <201003011708.07141.wonko@wonkology.org> <201003012030.27972.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201003012030.27972.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6ea3f128-9051-4f10-9098-9936d9b9ad1d X-Archives-Hash: bafd6e0fe11ca69b9d1b5cac4cd14490 chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > On Monday 01 March 2010 18:08:05 Alex Schuster wrote: > >> On the other hand, from time to time I have show-stoppers, and then I >> cannot use kmail, or no KDE4 at all. And have to invest time to solve >> this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being very >> unstable, and taking 5 minutes to start. What the heck is it doing in this >> time? >> > Fuck knows what amarok-2x does for the first 5 minutes. I *think* On my system > it scans the music directory, presumably to find updates that happened when > amarok was not running. Fair enough, can't argue that, but why is it so > *slow*??? > > Fuck also knows what the amarok devs are doing in general. I still can't find > a way to move stuff to an mp3 player like the old 1.4 version did. And the > library thingamagij still doesn't always update tags, or put tag changes that > it itself did into it's own database. It gladly accepts any changes you make > in the Edit Tags dialog, and tries to write them, even if it knows it cannot > do it (no support for that format, permissions, etc). Then, no warning or > message about this. Depending on which bleeding edge latest-svn commit build > you happen to get on any given day, this last might or might not tell you > something in the status bar. > > For all the above reasons, and more, I have switched to clementine (it's in > portage). It's a Qt port of amarok-1.4 and has equivalents of all the music- > playing goodness that amarok used to have. It doesn't do tags, external > players, wikipedia etc etc, it just plays music. And you have to tag your > music by other means with eg kid3. I can live with that. At least it starts > and stays up. > > And to think I have been in KDE 4 for almost a week now. Maybe this is to soon to remove KDE 3? My pet peeve so far is the background slide show. Every time I log in, try to change a setting for the background, or sneeze the wrong way, it starts looking for the new images, even tho there may not be any. I have a huge amount of them and it takes almost 2 minutes to "rebuild" whatever it is building. While it is doing that, it won't do anything else. I'm hoping this will change sometime soon. Oh, I also don't like that the images are random. Most of my images are done as a slide show. Having them in random order sort of defeats the point. Dale :-) :-)