Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On 6 October 2014 23:47:51 CEST, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Monday 06 Oct 2014 16:44:57 Jens Reinemuth wrote:
>> Am Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2014, 18:59:31 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
>> > Am 05.10.2014 um 18:27 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
>> > > On 05/10/2014 17:50, Michael Palimaka wrote:ystem all that much.
>> > > 
>> > > My real beef is with akonadi and kdepim. I could never get the
>damn
>> > > thing to actually work or to tell me what it was doing in a
>manner I
>> > > could understand. The last straw was around KDE-4.4 when the
>importer
>> > > managed to destroy my entire mail store and leave me with
>nothing, so I
>> > > switched to claws and several years later switched again to
>> > > Thunderbird.
>> > 
>> > or even better: akonadi eating 10 years and 100 000+ archived
>emails.
>> > But the gains were there - search became slower, if it worked at
>all and
>> > all filters broke - several times.
>> 
>> I can't really count how many times i simply deleted all the
>> .config/akonadi and .local/akonadi stuff - and let akonadi regenerate
>it,
>> simply because i deeply believed in the whole crap getting better! It
>> never got better...
>> 
>> Currently i can live with all that stuff, simply by disabling all
>nepomuk-
>> and akonadi-stuff and waiting for it to show all my mails again...
>> 
>> Funny: My wife has a second account with exactly the same settings
>and is
>> deeply annoyed by the permanent popups telling her that the
>balloo-indexer
>> has closed... Indeed she has disabled it!!! So i have to kill that
>shit
>> every time!
>> 
>> Most annoying story in the last time: KdePIM 4.10 simply stopped
>working
>> with my private Courier-IMAP-Server, telling everyone, that courier
>has a
>> bug... Ok, maybe, but it worked since every Version and just stopped
>> because one ore more developers simply decided to do things
>"right"!!!
>> 
>> No Problem in Gentoo, simply mask and downgrade kdepim-meta... I had
>more
>> problems at work with Kubuntu! With KDE4.10.1 everything works as
>> expected...
>> 
>> But this is just a gnome-like-behavior... The developers simply don't
>> really care what the users want or need... i really never heard of
>anybody
>> saying: Oh that search stuff is cool! I use it regularily!
>> 
>> And to go deeper: Why don't they store documents in a database, that
>is
>> better optimized for documents... MongoDB? CouchDB? Instead they use
>this
>> shitty mixture of MySQL and Virtuoso!? WTF?
>
>
>No, no, no!  What they should do is use Microsoft's Sharepoint server 
>solution, which stores documents in the MS SQL as binary blobs ...
>millions of 
>corporate users can't be wrong!  O_o

Please don't tell them!

At one of my customers they use Sharepoint as a CVS for sourcecode....

I keep having to merge changes manually....

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