Hi Alan, I'm not sure what happened but I got your e-mail after I sent the last one.
Just a question: what KDE4 release are you currently using? And on what distro? On a personal note, I'm running Slackware 12.2 and I've manually built KDE 4.2 and besides the expected bugs, I haven't had any troubles. Actually I like KDE 4 so much that my excitement was what led me to start talking about the porting to KDE 4. Just for reference, I'm not running any cutting edge hardware: AMD's Athlon 64 3800+ 1Gb RAM GeForce 7900GT I'm really sorry to hear you had all that trouble with KDE 4. Regards, Juan On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Alan Grimes <agri...@speakeasy.net> wrote: > Juan De Vincenzo wrote: > >> I've been thinking that maybe, a good way to obtain some extra hands >> for the project would be with an open call for developers which could >> be carried out on the kde-devel mailing list. > > What and have the developers who turned KDE4 into an unusable pile of > bloat unleash their wrath on our nice little project? > > I'm not against the idea but watching my swap file fill up after > installing 3 gb of ram on my 32-bit computer has sent me on an emergency > shopping trip for a new window manager. Today I'm using enlightenment > and it seems quite reasonable. > > =( > > I had heard such great things about KDE4, and thought that the much > needed technology upgrade was going to be a good thing... But it turns > out that they had gone far beyond a simple technology bump and had out > done Microsoft in terms of stupid features and shameless bloat. Its as > if they thought it was actually worth all my CPU cycles and all my > memory to index the 60,000 files that have crufted up in my home > directory over the many long years. > > I'm sorry but I'm pissed... > > I still support updating Ktechlab to KDE4/QT4 in principle, we need to > stay compatible with the upstream libraries and technologies. At the > same time we can't ignore our primary mission which is to provide > useful, efficient, and well written software. KDE3 was really really > kick-ass. It was fairly lean, and its software set the standard in > usability on the unix platform. I have no idea how they could have gone > so wrong. =( > > I can only hope that now KDE4 is out the door and is starting to be > widely deployed, these problems will start affecting more people and > things will improve back to what we're accustomed to. > > > -- > New president: Here we go again... > Chemistry.com: A total rip-off. > Powers are not rights. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) > software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to > build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local > resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and > Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com > _______________________________________________ > Ktechlab-devel mailing list > Ktechlab-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ktechlab-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Ktechlab-devel mailing list Ktechlab-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ktechlab-devel
