Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> On Mittwoch 24 Februar 2010, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > The reason I bring this up is that my account just froze on me from
> > running out of disk space. A little research showed that an
> > odd-sounding thing called nepomuk was using 7.2 G (SEVEN GIGS) in
> > some dotfiles. It turns out to be a KDE client - whatever that is.
> > I've got a lot of space here and there, but my /home partition was
> > never near full before.
> >
> > I'd like to just nuke nepomuk, but fear the consequences. I'm
> > seriously entertaining ideas about a more efficient way to run my
> > Gentoo system, although I'll probably keep kdelibs because I like a
> > few of their games. Similarly for gnome. But I wonder what I should
> > do about the rest.
> >
> > Ideas?
>
> just deactivate it.
>
> But one thing surprises me - I have 400gb of data in /home. And nepomuk
> just needs 600mb...
I had similar problems with KDE 4.2. And I wonder why strigi keeps
indexing some of my files every time log into KDE, which I am sure were
not changed in the meantime. But I do not notice this much, because Amarok
creates much more disk I/O before it crashes every time I log in. Then I
restart it, it scans for a while, and works then. Maybe I'll downgrade, or
I'll wait for an update, I got so used to Amarok I do not want to change.
That's my experience with KDE4. It's really nice, has cool features and is
getting better and better, but it's always many things which do not run
correctly. With every KDE update, some are fixed, and other problems
appear.
Problems that I had with 4.2 and still have with 4.4:
- Session saving sometimes does not work
- Kmail complains about running two times when started at login by a saved
session
- I get dialogs about crashed konqueror sessions I can restore
- kthumbnail thumbnails my files over and over again, two days ago I had a
load of 400
- Amarok: crashes, ogg file corruption, wrong playlists, sloow response
(sometimes I miss the first 1-2 seconds)
- many bundled plasmoids seem to be buggy
- Krunner is very nice, if only it would not crash so often or hang for
seconds, so that using the K menu is easier. Once I had to remove its
config file because it would not start at all.
- My additional Konqueror profiles do not appear in the file menu. I can
enable them, they are lost at next login.
- Under load the panel does not react well, clicks onto another desktop
take > 10 seconds to happen sometimes. Switching via hotkey is still fast.
- This KMail window has spell checking which is nice to have. But when I
open the spell checking dialog in order to add words to the dictionary, I
always have to start at the very beginning and reply to all problems until
I get to the word I want it to learn. Oh, and it even has problems with
numbers like 4.2. This looks to me like the typical example of a nice
idea, but it's implemented so badly I just do not use it.
And so on. But it's not so bad I cannot work with it (well, sometimes it
is, and then I have to fix it, like when the password dialog no longer
accepted passwords), and so I keep using it, waiting it to become really
stable and usable.
Wonko
