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

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 05/10/2014 17:50, Michael Palimaka wrote:
> On 10/06/2014 02:35 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
>> On 10/5/2014 11:01 AM, Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> I'd be interested to know what KDE negatives you've
>>> experienced/heard in the past though.
>>
>> Bloat, buggy/unstable ever since the move from KDE3 to KDE4 (and never
>> really gotten any better over time), etc...
>>
>> But of course there are always haters too... I'm sure it isn't as bad as
>> the loudest complainers make it sound...
>>
>>
> 
> There were definitely issues in KDE 4 early days but there have been
> substantial improvements since then.  Regarding bloat/performance, this
> biggest complaints seem to be about nepomuk/baloo. We provide the
> semantic-desktop USE flag to provide the option of disabling this
> feature wherever it's possible.


People do complain about nepomuk/baloo, but in my opinion it's mostly
unwarranted. The first indexing action did always take a long time (and
so does mlocate) but once that's done, I found it didn't really impact
the system 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.

I keep reading reports that kdepim is nowadays so much better and
stable, but to be frank I do not trust it, and likely never will. I also
understand this is not entirely logical, but it's just the way it is.

The rest of KDE I find to be very usable and rather pleasant to use. My
sole remaining gripe is lack of stored sessions in dolphin :-)


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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com