Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (22 Viewers)

[Martin]

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Martin, can you make a small list of the bugs you're experiencing in KDE?

I was going to make a screencast but I couldn't get the damn thing to work. What you want it for?

Here is one of them: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168379

Here's a screenshot by someone else explaining the same problem: http://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=36623

 

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[JCK]

I want to see if it is something I have noticed.

This file selection for example is something I haven't noticed before you pointed it out.

 

[Martin]

I want to see if it is something I have noticed.

This file selection for example is something I haven't noticed before you pointed it out.

Well then I have some more for you.

- Konq is slow as ass. Expand/collapse a folder takes half a second on my kubuntu. In kde3 it's instantaneous. Same goes for flipping between tabs and many other things, like scrolling.
- Can't exand/collapse folders with the keyboard arrows anymore. In kde3 you could be halfway down the list of files in a folder, press < on the keyboard and it will collapse that folder. In kde4 you can't.
- The folder view on the left doesn't update. Not even if I hit Refresh. Suppose I have /tmp open and there are various shortlived directories created and destroyed in there all the time. In konq they just pile up even though they don't exist on disk anymore.
- Drawing corruption. I was getting this on the previous version and I'm still getting it. Pixels being drawn incorrectly over windows. kwin is my window manager, so go figure.
- Plasma mount manager freezes all of plasma if a mount/umount fails. This is just retarded.

 

[JCK]

Just as I expected. Nothing of this is something I witness. I use Dolphin and I don't use plasma, I have KDE3.5 style Desktop.

 

[Martin]

Just as I expected. Nothing of this is something I witness. I use Dolphin and I don't use plasma, I have KDE3.5 style Desktop.

I don't like dolphin. But dolphin and konq are the same. They use the same exact code for the file browsing part. In fact it's called dolphinpart or something, and it's something that as a developer you can put into any kde application if it needs a file browser. Konqueror, dolphin, digikam (as in that screenshot before), looks the same because it is the same.

So in fact all these things apply just the same to dolphin.

 

[Rami]

Look guys, I don't think it's necessary to see everything in black and white. Personally I'm a kde user and I'm seriously annoyed with many things in kde4. That's because I'm more critical about things I care about than things that don't affect me. That doesn't mean I hate KDE. And it doesn't mean I hate Gnome either for that matter. Gnome has some really bonehead attitudes on some things, but that doesn't make it all bad.

Why don't we curtail the religious attitudes.

Honestly I don't feel strongly towards either. I just find myself in Gnome for now. Been a KDE3 user for a long time.

 

[JCK]

I think the options in Gnome are too much scattered, System Settings in KDE is just perfect.

 

[JCK]

Has anyone tried Debian anytime?

 

[Martin]

Once, long time ago. Install process was overcomplicated, didn't bother with it.

 

[JCK]

Do you think the install process is still that complicated?

I am downloading it now anyway, I want to see what's it all about.

 

[Martin]

Do you think the install process is still that complicated?

I am downloading it now anyway, I want to see what's it all about.

Don't know, but they are conservative. You should expect a text based install with many many steps. FreeBSD is like that also incidentally.

 

[JCK]

But there are modified BSD distros with a straightforward graphical install, right?

 

[Martin]

But there are modified BSD distros with a straightforward graphical install, right?

Yes. And for Debian there is Ubuntu

 

[V]

Im playing around pendrive linux, got mint 7 kde loaded onto it but sound isnt working. Googling says I need to add the following line:
options snd-hda-intel model=laptop

into the /etc/modprobe.conf file(or your distributions equivalent), but I cant find that file. Help here, quick folks.

 

[Martin]

Sometimes there's a /etc/modprobe.d/ directory.

 

[V]

You're a lovely man, Martin.

I'm stumped at how responsive the whole OS is, running from an USB flash drive. It even saves your configurations and everything.

 

[Martin]

You're a lovely man, Martin.

I'm stumped at how responsive the whole OS is, running from an USB flash drive. It even saves your configurations and everything.

Beats the heck out of a cdrom doesn't it

 

[V]

Hell yes. HDD installation of Vista as well. Opens Opera in like a 1.5 seconds.

 

[Omair]

For some reason my optic drive stopped reading CDs it only reads DVDs .. What's weird is that it still can write CDs ..

 

[V]

And I killed it.

By installing prop. drivers from ATI. Stupid HP and Radeon HD3430.