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 <kensing...@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.
