From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF2D913838B for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2014 15:50:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3D7CE08F8; Sun, 5 Oct 2014 15:50:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A0148E08C0 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2014 15:50:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ACFB340201 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2014 15:50:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.915 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.915 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.697, BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kKIq9tRzKNi1 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2014 15:50:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 987573401BC for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2014 15:50:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xao4s-00066E-1y for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2014 17:50:30 +0200 Received: from ppp118-209-130-183.lns20.mel8.internode.on.net ([118.209.130.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Oct 2014 17:50:30 +0200 Received: from kensington by ppp118-209-130-183.lns20.mel8.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Oct 2014 17:50:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Palimaka Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5? Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 02:50:19 +1100 Message-ID: References: <543144E8.9090206@libertytrek.org> <54316546.7070407@libertytrek.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp118-209-130-183.lns20.mel8.internode.on.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.1 In-Reply-To: <54316546.7070407@libertytrek.org> X-Archives-Salt: 955fe6bc-2dbe-469e-85f8-f94d35a82a28 X-Archives-Hash: 5db84e5e3050a18137921797f9fb32be On 10/06/2014 02:35 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/5/2014 11:01 AM, Michael Palimaka 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.