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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:14:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B994F08.8020202@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003111522.56075.wonko@wonkology.org>

Alex Schuster wrote:
> Dale writes:
>
>    
>> Alex Schuster wrote:
>>      
>>> Dale, you brave, brave man, are you really using KDE4 now?
>>>        
>    
>> I am in KDE4.  I still have KDE3 installed tho.  Thing is, I'm still
>> using the same programs I was in KDE3.  Dolphin looks nice and all but
>> I can't use it as root at all.
>>      
> Huh? No problem here.
>
> OT: does anyone know about dolphin somehow accessing all files it shows? I
> see this on a system that uses dolphin to browse remote files via the fish
> protocol. Previews are not enabled, but all the files are accessed, which
> means it takes about one hour until the directory is shown, because all
> files are being retrieved from a SAM-FS server. Maybe it is reading the
> magic number for each file? I will try konqueror now.
>
>    

This is what I am talking about.  Dolphin will browse through 
directories but as soon as I click to open a text file, it gives a 
error.  I have discussed this on the kde list and it is a known 
problem.  One even said the code was written to prevent that but others 
say it is just not fixed yet.  So, I still use Konqueror just like I did 
in KDE 3.


>> So, I went back to Konqueror to edit
>> config files and such.  I don't use some of the programs that you are
>> using so I don't have the same issues.  I use smplayer to do movies or
>> CDs.  It doesn't care what DE you use.
>>      
> Ah, smplayer. Did not think about that. It was not important anyway - I
> had ripped a CD with K3b, and wondered why two tracks were swapped. BTW,
> what do you use for ripping? K3b is okay, but it does not remember changes
> like output path or file naming, I have to set this again for every CD.
> But smplayer does not recognise the CD either. I wonder why I do not have
> a /dev/cdrom device - only /dev/cdrom3, /dev/cdrw3, /dev/dvd3 and
> /dev/dvdrw3, all symlinking to /dev/sr0.
>
>
>    

I have used tkdvd to burn a DVD.  It ain't pretty but it worked.  ;-)

>> I do like the looks of KDE4.  I still think they dropped KDE3 to soon.
>> KDE4 will get there but it is still having issues many months after
>> dropping KDE3.  Bad thing is, I don't think they care about the users
>> they left hanging in the wind.
>>      
> I also think KDE3 was dropped too soon. While KDE4 is usable now for most
> things, it still has too many bugs, and a while ago it had many many more,
> while development and bug fixing of KDE3 was already stopped.
> On the other hand, manpower is limited, and I understand the decision to
> focus on the new project rather than doing stuff for the old one that soon
> noone will be using. KDE 3.5 is still there. I don't know about the
> security issues, would it be unsafe now to use KDE 3.5? I remember
> something about kpfd being masked due to security holes.
>
> 	Wonko
>
>    

I understand the second hand but it still leaves the users out in the 
cold.  I'm hoping the release of KDE 5 will be handled better but I'm 
not holding my breath.

Dale

:-)  :-)



  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-11 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-24  2:27 [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here! Kevin O'Gorman
2010-02-24  2:36 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-24  3:38   ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-02-24  5:41     ` ubiquitous1980
2010-02-24 13:33       ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-02-25  0:10   ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-25  2:07     ` Peter Humphrey
2010-02-25 13:03       ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-01 16:08     ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-01 18:30       ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-01 19:07         ` Dale
2010-03-01 19:22           ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-01 20:26             ` Dale
2010-03-01 20:28             ` Mick
2010-03-01 21:17               ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-01 23:17                 ` Mick
2010-03-01 23:22                   ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 15:48             ` Paul Hartman
2010-03-03 16:43               ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 11:27         ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-03 16:49           ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 17:30             ` stosss
2010-03-03 20:01               ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 17:32             ` Paul Hartman
2010-03-03 19:56               ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-03 17:54             ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-04 14:12               ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-09 20:12                 ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-09 21:07                   ` Philip Webb
2010-03-11  9:25                     ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-12  1:59                       ` Philip Webb
2010-03-12  6:59                         ` Mick
2010-03-12 10:19                         ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-12 15:32                           ` Paul Hartman
2010-03-13 11:15                             ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-09 21:52                   ` Dale
2010-03-11 14:22                     ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-11 20:14                       ` Dale [this message]
2010-03-12  9:27                         ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-09 22:20                   ` Mick
2010-06-16 23:23                     ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-17 13:31                       ` Mick
2010-06-19 19:03                         ` Alex Schuster
2010-04-22 14:58           ` Alex Schuster
2010-03-01 20:34       ` Mick
2010-03-03 16:13         ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-24 13:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 13:41   ` Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
2010-02-24 14:12     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 14:23       ` Christian Schulze
2010-02-24 16:03         ` Dale
2010-02-24 16:17           ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 16:47             ` Dale
2010-02-24 16:58               ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 14:28       ` Crístian Viana
2010-02-24 14:46         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 15:32           ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-24 16:43     ` Mike Edenfield
2010-02-24 16:52       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-25 20:55         ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-24 16:59       ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 17:08         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-24 17:53           ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 17:57             ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-24 18:31               ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 18:12         ` Mike Edenfield
2010-02-24 18:32           ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-24 21:25             ` Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
2010-02-25  4:17         ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-02-25  4:22           ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-02-25  9:16           ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-25 19:45             ` Dale
2010-02-25 20:59           ` Frank Steinmetzger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-06-19 20:23 [gentoo-user] " Alex Schuster
2010-06-20 15:52 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-06-28 22:50   ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-28 23:16 Mateusz Mierzwiński
2010-06-29 14:23 ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-29 14:38   ` Neil Bothwick
2010-06-29 22:40     ` Mick
2010-06-29 23:16       ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-29 23:21         ` Alan McKinnon
2010-06-30  6:23           ` Mick
2010-06-30  9:30             ` Peter Humphrey
2010-06-30 10:17               ` Mick
2010-06-30 10:35                 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-06-30  0:55         ` Neil Bothwick
2010-06-30 10:46           ` Alex Schuster
2010-07-04 19:57   ` Alex Schuster
2010-06-29 15:45 Mateusz Mierzwiński
     [not found] <f0vMl-rW-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <f0JZ1-4aw-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
2010-06-29 15:50   ` David W Noon

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