[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-07-04 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin Krammer writes: On Saturday, 2011-07-02, Alex Schuster wrote: BTW, ordinary users here means people who often do not speak English. The German localization misses a lot, so KDE 4 is not right for them. Is KDE 4 meant to be for these people? I'm not sure. Hmm, using KDE localized

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-07-04 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Monday, 2011-07-04, Alex Schuster wrote: Kevin Krammer writes: On Saturday, 2011-07-02, Alex Schuster wrote: BTW, ordinary users here means people who often do not speak English. The German localization misses a lot, so KDE 4 is not right for them. Is KDE 4 meant to be for these

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-07-04 Thread Duncan
Alex Schuster posted on Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:48:01 +0200 as excerpted: Thanks. I thought it were some more [being paid]. So, despite my constant ranting about the bad quality of KDE4, it's astonishing what a group of mostly unpaid volunteers can accomplish. This is a huge project, and it is

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-07-02 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Saturday, 2011-07-02, Alex Schuster wrote: BTW, ordinary users here means people who often do not speak English. The German localization misses a lot, so KDE 4 is not right for them. Is KDE 4 meant to be for these people? I'm not sure. Hmm, using KDE localized for German myself I can't

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-07-02 Thread Duncan
Alex Schuster posted on Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:21:45 +0200 as excerpted: I also gave Sabayon a try, it's like a binary Gentoo. But Gnome did not run, and again I did not bother to investigate. I also wasn't sure which parts of portage I could use safely. But the speed was nice, building a Gentoo

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-07-02 Thread Duncan
Alex Schuster posted on Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:21:45 +0200 as excerpted: Mine is a Windows user. I had also installed Linux for him, but he wanted to use some Windows software he got, and booting Windows was easier than to run his software in an emulator, so he sticked with Windows. Sometimes I

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-05-12 Thread Rafa Grimán
Hi :) On Thursday 12 May 2011 00:27 Alex Schuster wrote Rafa Griman wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org [...] So the thing is: have you tried another distro? Honestly, change distros and you'll see that KDE SC isn't as bad as you think. Nooo way,

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-05-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 10 May 2011 00:49:49 Alex Schuster wrote: Automatic spell checking stopped working in 4.4.4, and still does not work. It's no longer set in KMail, but in System Settings Locale. It works for me Anne -- New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org signature.asc

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-05-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 11 May 2011 10:27:14 Duncan wrote: Anne Wilson posted on Wed, 11 May 2011 09:57:19 +0100 as excerpted: On Tuesday 10 May 2011 00:49:49 Alex Schuster wrote: Automatic spell checking stopped working in 4.4.4, and still does not work. It's no longer set in KMail, but in

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-05-11 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Tuesday, 2011-05-10, Alex Schuster wrote: Actually, I'm quite okay with kmail, although there's some more problems. Sometimes it shows new mails in my IMAP inbox that I already deleted, the solution is to log into my mail server, start mutt, and let it purge these mails. It also hangs

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-05-11 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Tuesday, 2011-05-10, Duncan wrote: The same message comes thru when one considers the official name change, from kde, to The KDE Software Collection. Nobody's going to use that in normal usage, or even the shorter KDE-SC, for the same reason nobody uses GNU/Linux in normal usage -- it's

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-05-11 Thread Duncan
Kevin Krammer posted on Wed, 11 May 2011 17:14:42 +0200 as excerpted: Software Compilation might not be a very good term for meaning simulationous release of new versions of all products, but there was little (if at all) precendence in this area to go along with. Maybe Software Bundle or

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-05-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Duncan writes: Alex Schuster posted on Wed, 11 May 2011 13:46:10 +0200 as excerpted: On the test account, it's still not working. I have only the German language to choose there, although American English is enabled in systemsettings. You have the dictionaries for both installed, right?

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-05-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin Krammer writes: On Tuesday, 2011-05-10, Alex Schuster wrote: Actually, I'm quite okay with kmail, although there's some more problems. Sometimes it shows new mails in my IMAP inbox that I already deleted, the solution is to log into my mail server, start mutt, and let it purge

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-05-11 Thread Alex Schuster
Rafa Griman wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: [Oh, this has become rather lengthy. It's a description of my various problems with KDE4, the details are not so important, no need to read it all. My question is: Are your experiences similar to

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-05-10 Thread Rafa Griman
Hi :) On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Hi there! [Oh, this has become rather lengthy. It's a description of my various problems with KDE4, the details are not so important, no need to read it all. My question is: Are your experiences similar to

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-05-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Billie Walsh writes: On 05/09/2011 06:49 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: I'm somewhat diesappointed with KDE4. I'm using it since 4.2, and it's become much much better - but still, there are just so many bugs. Is it just me, or it this normal? Would you suggest other people (being unskilled uses,

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-05-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin Krammer writes: On Tuesday, 2011-05-10, Alex Schuster wrote: I never used a distribution list with kontact, so I tried this for myself. I created a new contact group 'Testgroup' in kaddressbook and added some people with their e-mail addresses. Kmail then knows about this Testgroup

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-05-10 Thread Billie Walsh
On 05/10/2011 03:48 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: I_do_ use thunderbird on Windows (right at the moment), and it also has its problems. Like hanging when quitting, and eating 100% CPU time until I kill it. And it tends to not remember that I want my folder views threaded. But it's okay for me. I

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-05-10 Thread Alex Schuster
Duncan writes: Alex Schuster posted on Tue, 10 May 2011 22:48:36 +0200 as excerpted: But htey were no power users. And thast was before KDE4. You were saying something about your spellchecker being broken. That's too bad, as you NEED it. =:^) Nah, I'm putting in these errors

[kde] Re: A week of KDE4 usage

2011-05-09 Thread Duncan
Alex Schuster posted on Tue, 10 May 2011 01:49:49 +0200 as excerpted: [Oh, this has become rather lengthy. It's a description of my various problems with KDE4, the details are not so important, no need to read it all. My question is: Are your experiences similar to mine?] I read it all,