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

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

Am 05.10.2014 um 19:10 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> 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.
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> 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
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>>>> 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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konqueror for the usual stuff
firefox for video sites (like youtube)&facebook
chromium for fucking retard sites that make my blood boil. like
*.yahoo.com, tumblr, flickr.