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. > > 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) > > > >
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.
