From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-159124-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>
Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80])
	by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF2D913838B
	for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; 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 <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; 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 <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; 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 <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>;
	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 <gentoo-user@gentoo.org>; Sun,  5 Oct 2014 15:50:32 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69)
	(envelope-from <lnx-gentoo-user@m.gmane.org>)
	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 <gentoo-user@gentoo.org>; 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 <gentoo-user@gentoo.org>; Sun, 05 Oct 2014 17:50:30 +0200
X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 02:50:19 +1100
Message-ID: <m0rpbq$67a$1@ger.gmane.org>
References: <CAO5-k+qo2D_7AAA9LMgbUwpvR5_6FyJKi+GyVeqKgrUVVc+nsw@mail.gmail.com> <m0pb7v$dm8$1@ger.gmane.org> <543144E8.9090206@libertytrek.org> <m0rmfv$3e7$1@ger.gmane.org> <54316546.7070407@libertytrek.org>
Precedence: bulk
List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org>
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 <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.