On 05/10/2014 17:50, Michael Palimaka wrote: > 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.
People do complain about nepomuk/baloo, but in my opinion it's mostly unwarranted. The first indexing action did always take a long time (and so does mlocate) but once that's done, I found it didn't really impact the system all that much. My real beef is with akonadi and kdepim. I could never get the damn thing to actually work or to tell me what it was doing in a manner I could understand. The last straw was around KDE-4.4 when the importer managed to destroy my entire mail store and leave me with nothing, so I switched to claws and several years later switched again to Thunderbird. I keep reading reports that kdepim is nowadays so much better and stable, but to be frank I do not trust it, and likely never will. I also understand this is not entirely logical, but it's just the way it is. The rest of KDE I find to be very usable and rather pleasant to use. My sole remaining gripe is lack of stored sessions in dolphin :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
