15 Jun
2009
15 Jun
'09
2:05 a.m.
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, carmen wrote:
All this KDE versus non-KDE is interesting, but I already know the
downsides of KDE itself. I don't run it all the time, but like having
it on my system as an available choice.
I was just wondering though whether v4 was quite ready, or whether I
should stick to KDE 3. I suppose there are a lot of opinions on that
though, since there's a lot of discussion on that already on the
Internet right now.
For me, it comes down to:
Do you think I should allow 'qt4' in $USE at this point, or should I
stick to 'qt3' only for now? Loaded question, I know...
--
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+ UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will
+ University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of
+ Physical Sciences Div. + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet,
+ James Franck Institute + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky
Many people
(including me) are using KDE4 and it's very clean and user centric
i found it overtly hostile to basic tasks, like finding a web browser in an app menu
plus it caused the boot-to-GUI proces to take 3 minutes
no problem. Why do some people still have problem
using an app just because
it's a QT or KDE app? I don't get that.
because, at least on Gentoo, it requires compiling all of KDE and QT, which can be a
multi-day affair (compare w/ 5 seconds for dwm, 10 mins for xorg, and 15 for webkit, a
'WebOS' system in a half hour)
then when you launch a KDElibs app, it launches 10 odd daemons, kdeserver, dcop, etcetc,
sucking 200 MB of ram
Messy? No way!
the hodgepodge of panels and default icons was certainly messy