Setting defaults targeted at specific audiences is the responsibility of distributors. Maybe someone at your distribution wants to listen to your whining.
On Samstag 10 Dezember 2011 16:33:33 Bartolomé Méndez Zuloaga wrote: > Hello, list! > > I thought it may be reasonable to change several KDE default options. > Here are some of my suggestions: > > - Disable Strigi. It's slow, sometimes renders the computer unusable > and doesn't even work. Most users (if not all) just disable it on > first login. The rest don't know how to do it, just think KDE is > freaking slow, and then switch to GNOME. > - Disable Nepomuk completely. It's common to see it eating megs and > megs of RAM with no reason, even when there are no applications or > services making use of it. > - Use Plastique on widgets and windows. Oxygen is beautiful but much > slower than Plastique. > - Disable compositing. KWin compositing has proven itself to be > unreliable, sluggish and sometimes completely unusable. > - Switch to Compiz by default. That means we would have to build it > into KDE, but I personally think it's worth the effort. It just works. > If the user prefers to use KWin, he can do so too. > - Encourage the user to use Wicd instead of NM. I don't say Wicd is > better than NM, but at least the Wicd KDE client works, the NM applet > (a plasmoid) does not. Maybe it doesn't work because it was built on > an unreliable platform such as Plasma. > - Disable start-up events. The bouncing cursor, for example. It only > works with 30% of the applications; the rest will leave the cursor > bouncing for 30 seconds. > - Remove the activities. No one understands them or their real > purpose, so it's just noise. > - Use the classic menu. Kickoff is a pain in the ass; the user should > be able to switch back to Kickoff if (s)he wants to. > - Use reKonq. Some distros already do it. There's no reason for KHTML > to exist; it's useless. > - Use Calibri notifications. Calibri notifications work! Plasma > notifications do not, well, if we don't consider that a stack of > malformed widgets means "working." > > Well I think that's all. Thanks for reading me, and thank you all very > much for making this desktop environment ROCK! > > -- > Bartolomé Méndez Zuloaga > Presidente de la comunidad de vecinos > Calle Desengaño, 21 > Madrid
