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

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

On 05/10/2014 18:59, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> 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.


Ever notice how no other pim-like application feels the need to store
everything in mysql or similar? The fact that so many pim-like apps
actually do work should count for something


> 
>> >
>> > 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.

I haven't used konqueror as a browser in many many months, I get along
just fine with firefox and chromium. I believe konqueror is essentially
unmaintained these days or at least on life support. Make a fine file
manager though (kparts has always been one of KDE's very much better ideas)




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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com