I unmerged all the kde-base/...-4.2.1 pkgs preparatory to remerging them with USE="kdeprefix" & it hit me: why am I wasting time on this rubbish ?
KDE 4.2.1 is not -- as someone bluntly pointed out -- a successor to 3.5 : it's a whole new concept, not yet clear even in the minds of its developers. So I'm faced with something I don't want & it's also full of bugs: I don't want desktops to slide to/fro when I change them, it's nauseating; Konsole profiles don't work, Dolphin won't start as I want, add the wrong item to a panel & Plasma freezes with 1 CPU at 100 % . I cb content with Fluxbox, if KDE 3.5 disappears one day, but I do like the KDE 3.5 environment & many of its applications: they're reliable, highly-configurable, attractive & tasteful. There is an urgent need for a fork of KDE to improve 3.5 -> 3.6 , while leaving the silly candy-babies to ape Microsoft & Mac. I've removed the rest of what I installed to support KDE 4 (except Qt 4 ) & may install Xfce 4.6 next weekend to see how far it's come since I last used it in autumn 2004 (a poor 4.2 then). As I've said, I'm impressed with Thunar, which is way ahead of Dolphin & cb installed without most of Xfce 4 . There was an article in the Linux press last week about a plain user, who had had enough of Microsoft & tried out a Linux distro: what she loved most was the simple practical Fluxbox desktop ... -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
