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 1NmCCN-0007q6-4O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:26:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B95CE0A03; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 20:26:12 +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 6F482E0A03 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 20:26:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh12 with SMTP id 12so1182065ywh.10 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:26:12 -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=g3Z5Q2Ayxfa2ORi5n7juSOwgNG3ajJuat0NWoy+DUjA=; b=bVUkUHqdf9K/2R0sIGo3JUOmCo6tDNMsel/+UvwmzqYkRKKa7vtfqvZVVUPjH70ldH LXqp4MIa+hVuzU+tbKjxAv+6II5J/mhpAUkiM2Uwan37KWnobP2/EeXH4EhCtrUi/Pi0 DvXJvTzuwaAHAA81evmJqnZDmX/7YmhiO+kWc= 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=MxixyE95nBa1/Rmo/hca4y6ybQsBlLOXtxcCZeXFCMQMAtf/9R9BQL3PCAvkAOk3pf SHppljWgoHiYf2a6dgozXL32UMtO9RQRegpXsidno7KO2jg2pj/r2lhS0YgFVQJVfuAN KLZ5Xwi/Q2dj0sfkUD12glAQgu9IYpkYfPQ+U= Received: by 10.100.83.3 with SMTP id g3mr7148037anb.3.1267475172075; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:26:12 -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 16sm2774423gxk.5.2010.03.01.12.26.10 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:26:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B8C22E1.6020402@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:26:09 -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> <201003012030.27972.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4B8C1066.8030908@gmail.com> <201003012122.29314.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201003012122.29314.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2241cd4b-46e8-4268-8689-cb5a2fa5e108 X-Archives-Hash: 61855ad4abb34ee28b55fbb8c431e3e1 chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > On Monday 01 March 2010 21:07:18 Dale wrote: > >> And to think I have been in KDE 4 for almost a week now. Maybe this is >> to soon to remove KDE 3? >> > To be fair, amarok is not part of KDE-4, it's a third party add-on to the KDE > framework. Not much the KDE devs can do about that except encourage the Amarok > devs to ship quality tested code. > > Sort of like AdBlock - if it were poor quality it would not be a correct > reflection on Mozilla as a whole > > This is true I guess. It is getting there but I still have to work around problems. It's still missing things but it is getting more usable. > >> 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. >> > My pet peeve is Desktop. I have two monitors at work and use two X screens. > KDE wants to create a Desktop and a Desktop-1 directory. I want it to just use > the same set of files for both - background, icons, plasma widgets must be the > same on both monitors, but actual app windows running there independent. This > seems perfectly reasonable to me - e17 does it out the box - but thus far I > have not found the magic voodoo spell that makes it happen. > > I still have a single CRT monitor. The LCDs are getting cheaper tho. Maybe they will fix or add the needed code for you to be able to do what you want before to long. I'm not sure when the next set of updates are coming out. I never could get the kde layman to work right so I gave up on it. The kde-sunset works fine tho. Weird. Dale :-) :-)