Kde 3.1 questions

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Tim Wunder wrote:

> On Saturday 08 February 2003 1:17 pm, someone claiming to be Brett I.
> Holcomb wrote:
> 
>> As it stands I abandoned KDE for many reasons.   One was bloat.  It's
>> just
>> so big.  One thing though was every few weeks we had to wipe out files in
>> /tmp and other places and let KDE recreate them because you lost the
>> panel or it wouldn't log in.
> 
> Gee, I haven't had to do that, um, since around 2.1, and rarely then.

That's what we kept hearng on the mail list but unfortunately it was  so 
common some people joked they were going to have to have a macro key for 
the solution.

> 
> Fine. I'll agree with you there. But I don't find that to be the case
> currently. As always, YMMV. Have you seen this
> http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-11/kde_01.html ?

Nope.
 
>> To be honest, I did think of trying KDE 3.1 as I did see the list of
>> improvements but held off and now I'm seeing the same thing I saw with
>> KDE
>> 3  - people in mail lists, forums, etc. having trouble that they
>> shouldn't
>> be having in installing and running it so I backed off.  I have enough
>> other stuff to worry about.
>>
> 
> Most problems I see are people trying to install binary RPMs, getting
> dependancies and resolving them with --force and --nodeps. Talk about not
> good. I will not install a new KDE from rpm, it's simply too big, and
> affects far too much, to trust *anyone's* binary RPMs. I build it manually
> from source, install via checkinstall, and only get what I need/want.

Nope, I did all of it from source back then and with Gentoo thats what it 
would be. 

>> I'm not denying KDE 3.1 is different than KDE 2.x but I don't want it
>> 's differences so I decided to stick with xfce which works and does what
>> I
>> need.  I just don't want to fight with KDE again and to try it I'd have
>> to go through all the hassle of trying to compile it and then make it
>> work.
>>
> 
> Fine. Use XFCE, I don't particularly care one way or the other. But, don't
> disparage KDE 3.1 based on your experience with KDE 2.2.1.

No, but I won't say it's the greatest either. KDE is a huge project - for 
me to huge.  At this point I really don't want to go down that road again - 
and the mail list posts are reinforcing that for me and every release seems 
to have so many bugs - way beyond what we see in releases of other projects.


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