Duncan writes: > FWIW, I got fed up with akonadi, however, and unmerged all of kdepim in > ordered to be able to unmerge it. With it unmerged, I was able to set > USE=-semantic-desktop, etc, so I have all that turnakonadied off as > well. You'd be AMAZED at how much faster kde runs now! I know I was > -- it was like an MSWormOS user finding out how much either the malware > or the malware scanners had been slowing him down or like getting a > free half-gigahertz or another couple cores CPU upgrade! I > was /reasonably/ happy with kde4 before, but now I'm MUCH happier with > it! =:^)
I had thought about going that route, too. I like that semantic desktop stuff very very much, but I nearly don't use it at all at the moment, it doesn't work or I don't know how to use it. I'll give this stuff yet another try when I upgrade to 4.8. After some sort of MAJOR hardware problem, I got a new PC, and KDE is fast enough now that I don't complain any more. It's an AMD FX-4100 quad-core processor, while before I had some dual-core AMD 4850e or something like that. And with 16 G of RAM instead of only 8, the system is no longer swapping. Finally! > And I can also say that I've been very happy with claws-mail as a > replacement, altho the conversion wasn't particularly easy. I'm also using Claws for half a year or so. Some minor annoyances, like it doesn't react while scanning folders for new mails, or with spell checking. But can live with that. KMail is still active, but I don't use it normally. And when I try, like just now... 1) In the account settings, I see four entries named "IMAP E-Mail Server". I have to g into the settings dialog in order to find out _what_ IMAP server this is. I'm quite sure this used to be different, and the account name had been displayed. 2) Moving to the next unread message no longer works. I can press '+' or use the menu, but nothing happens. 3) When I reply to an encrypted mail, the German umlauts are all wrong. This is so annoying, five minutes of doing something with KMail2 again, and I find three problems. I'm not even very surprised. And while I am at it, some other KDE problems I wrote down in my log recently: 2012-01-29: The desktop widgets were locked, even though they should not be according to the menu. I had to explicitely lock them and unlock again in order to move them around. 20120-02-01: Again, all desktops suddenly showed the widgets of one specific desktop. Cured by a relogin, this time I did not have to copy the plasma-desktop-appletsrc file from a backup to restore the original state. I have some strange problem with mplayer exiting when I press a key, so I want to use mplayer2. When changing this in the 'Open with...' dialog, a window with a progress bar appears, and the progress bar goes from 0 to 100 % over and over again, every time becoming slower, until I abort. This started workin after another relogin into KDE. Amarok does not play sound. No idea why. I tried changing the Phonon backend from GStreamer to Xine, and get a dialog that for this change I will have to knotify4. What? And Amarok, but this was expected. When I restart Amarok, it crashes instantly. After I exchanged two entries in the amarokrc (I think) file, things were working again. 20120-02-02: The Digikam handbook is not available. I wanted to find out how to convert filenames to lower case, I still don't know. Konqueror takes nearly a minute to display the contents of /usr/share/doc/digikam-2.5.0/html/. Okay, there are some 14,000 files in there, but it should not open as empty folder that explicitly tells in the status line there are '0 entries', so I first thought this folder was empty. Opening http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/digikam.pdf in Konqueror gave me an empty document, so I used Okular. Now it#s also working in Konqueror. The KSnapshot save as dialog puts the cursor to the end after the 1st character is being entered. But at last I can finally see the snapshot in Gwenview, this was broken for a long time. 20120-02-03: akonadi_imap_re was using 490min CPU time, this doesn't look right to me. Why does KDE keep asking me whether I want to remove a sound device? 20120-02-04: The KNotes don't remember their position. That is, they show up in the location of other notes that are currently closed. Kontact hung, and I lost a long usenet posting I wanted to send later with KNode. Talking about KNode, like so often it shows read postings as new again. Dolphin was not able to delete a file, and tries to tell me in the status line, but I only see "Unable to delete file: The file ....." and there is no more space to tell me why this is. Wonko ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
