From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 18:59:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <543178F3.20505@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54317162.50508@gmail.com>
Am 05.10.2014 um 18:27 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> 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.
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 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.
as long as akonadi with its idiotic database backend is around, it will
never be trustworthy.
>
> 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 :-)
>
My favorite fuckups which are still around:
tumblr can make konqueror hang at 100% cpu for minutes, because of some
javascript - firefox and chromium are fine and dlisted in one tab is
fine, but open one of their articles in a new tab and konqueror just
vanishes. Not even the crash dialog pops up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-05 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-04 13:26 [gentoo-user] has anyone tried KDE5? behrouz khosravi
2014-10-04 17:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Palimaka
2014-10-05 13:17 ` Tanstaafl
2014-10-05 15:01 ` Michael Palimaka
2014-10-05 15:35 ` Tanstaafl
2014-10-05 15:50 ` Michael Palimaka
2014-10-05 16:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-10-05 16:59 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2014-10-05 17:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-10-05 17:25 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-10-07 7:24 ` [gentoo-user] " Pavel Volkov
2014-10-07 14:48 ` Philip Webb
2014-10-07 15:20 ` Mick
2014-10-07 17:27 ` Philip Webb
2014-10-07 18:26 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-10-07 19:20 ` Daniel Frey
2014-10-08 4:42 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-10-09 3:32 ` Daniel Frey
2014-10-14 5:50 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-10-14 19:22 ` Daniel Frey
2014-10-14 20:16 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-10-16 17:06 ` Daniel Frey
2014-10-07 20:18 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-10-07 21:32 ` Mick
2014-10-08 6:45 ` Pavel Volkov
2014-10-08 7:32 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-10-08 8:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-10-08 4:46 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-10-08 5:29 ` Mick
2014-10-08 7:30 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-10-09 17:44 ` Francisco Ares
2014-10-09 19:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-10-09 20:01 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-10-11 9:45 ` Mick
2014-10-06 15:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Jens Reinemuth
2014-10-06 21:47 ` Mick
2014-10-07 5:02 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-10-07 6:48 ` Jens Reinemuth
2014-10-05 18:34 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-10-06 9:57 ` Michael Palimaka
2014-10-06 15:55 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-10-07 20:31 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-10-08 9:56 ` Michael Palimaka
2014-10-08 17:38 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-10-09 7:56 ` Michael Palimaka
2014-10-09 15:40 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-10-07 7:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Pavel Volkov
2014-10-07 9:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Palimaka
2014-10-12 12:11 ` Stefano Crocco
2014-10-12 15:20 ` Michael Palimaka
2014-10-12 18:45 ` Stefano Crocco
2014-10-05 12:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Paige Thompson
2014-10-05 12:20 ` Paige Thompson
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