On 10/06/2014 02:35 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/5/2014 11:01 AM, Michael Palimaka <kensing...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> I'd be interested to know what KDE negatives you've >> experienced/heard in the past though. > > Bloat, buggy/unstable ever since the move from KDE3 to KDE4 (and never > really gotten any better over time), etc... > > But of course there are always haters too... I'm sure it isn't as bad as > the loudest complainers make it sound... > >
There were definitely issues in KDE 4 early days but there have been substantial improvements since then. Regarding bloat/performance, this biggest complaints seem to be about nepomuk/baloo. We provide the semantic-desktop USE flag to provide the option of disabling this feature wherever it's possible.
