KDE 4: the good, the bad and the broken

[Dotan Cohen]

On 28 April 2010 09:59, Tassilo Horn <tassilo at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 April 2010 11:07:19 Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> Hi Dotan,
>
>> The Good
>> Okular, Konqueror, Dolphin, Kate
>> I need ideas about what is exceptionally good about Plasma. I like
>> Krunner and Lancelot. Anything else?
>
> The first releases of KDE4 drove me away from KDE4, but with 4.4 I'm
> back again.  The most important reason is that the plasma desktop now
> works quite good.  I have an intel graphics card with the free drivers,
> and even the 3D effects are really fast and snappy.
>
> Another good thing is that the handling of multiple outputs (monitors)
> works quite good.  The only thing I'm really missing here is that KDE
> doesn't remember the layouts for a set of outputs, so that it could
> restore my last layout I configured for this set of outputs.
>
>> The Bad
>> Currently the Plasma menus are very confusing to my users, I plan on
>> discussing this. Special attention will be given to menu depth and the
>> Cashew. Also, some key features of KDE 3 are not yet available in KDE
>> 4, and as applications get ported to KDE 4 and Akonadi they lose
>> features as well. Accessibility is also a mess in KDE 4. What else is
>> just bad about KDE 4?
>
> I don't like the interface for the nepomuk search.  The krunner
> interface as well as the search in dolphin show much too few information
> about the results.  Why the heck doesn't it at least show the path of a
> file?  Now my result has 7 foo.pdf files, and cause I don't see their
> parent directory, I cannot see what's the right one.
>
> And what the heck are "Paginated PDF Documents" that show up in my
> results?
>
> And why does the nepomuk store size constantly increase?  When I started
> using KDE 4.4 about two months ago, after the first indexing of all my
> files the index was at 800 MB.  Now it is 2.5 GB, for about the same
> number of indexed files.  Every week, the index grows about 100 MB...
>
> Hm, another think is that the whole nepomuk service processes take a lot
> of CPU and IO time.  Especially the virtuoso-t database constantly
> hammers my harddrive.  Using `ionice' I was able to come to grips with
> it, at least mostly.
>

Thanks, I will triage those issues. I have never played wirh Nepomuk before.


>> The Broken
>> I suffer many Kontact bugs, and some design ideas seem broken in their
>> current implementation (activities, which will be addressed for KDE
>> 4.5). What else is broken for you in KDE 4?
>
> Yeah, I also suffer from at least 2 severe kontact/akonadi bugs.
>
> 1. Kontact frequently freezes after using the summary view (bug 226636).
>
> 2. Moving recurring events in korganizer garbles them (bug 172464).
>
> 3. When using an akonadi calendar resource, reminders don't work (bug
>   223388).
>

Thanks, Tassilo!


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Dotan Cohen

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