KDE 4: the good, the bad and the broken

[Dotan Cohen]

>> Please file bugs with your distros. Feel free to email to me the bug
>> numbers in private mail (in a new thread, not a reply here) so that I
>> can triage them.
>
> Can't :( The bug reporting tool is broken LOL.  Generally if I just
> put up with it for a few weeks and update fixes it but breaks other
> stuff.  I've got a Fedora Bugzilla account, should I report it there
> manually or is there a different bugzilla acount, I think I had or
> still have a KDE bugzilla account.
>

Fedora and *buntu have online bug reporting tools. The *buntu one is
hard to find without going through literally three pages of docs, here
it is:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug/?no-redirect

Debian might be a problem, I know.


>> Which distro? Which apps? I have not had this issue with KDE, though
>> Firefox has a huge memory leak.
>
> Fedora 12  KDE 4.4.1  Downloading an update right now that moves me to 4.4.2
> Firefox is probably the top culprit since I have MANY Firefox windows
> open for weeks at a time.  Sadly they had the mem leak mostly fixed in
> 3.5.x but 3.6.x is almost as bad as 2.x was with the mem leaks :(  I'm
> not certain which apps but Kwrite I am very suspcious of having a Mem
> leak., The various Kwrite windows I have open are using a combined 15
> megs of ram over 6 windows most of which contain maybe a paragraph or
> two. When I get about 20 open it does evil things to my memory. One of
> the reasons I miss Kedit so much. Pulse audio appears to have one also
> as it takes way more mem than a sound server should after it's been
> running for a few weeks. Right now a few days after launching it's
> already up to .3 megs. The Plasma desktop seems to be another. Right
> now it's using up 13 megs of ram which seems high to me. I'll watch
> and see if it grows any over the next day or two. Kwin is another I'm
> suspicious of. It's right now one of my top 10 in mem usage at 4.6
> megs but I havn't closed anything or opened any new windows in last
> hour or so.
>

It looks to me that you are using Qt4 apps (KDE 4), Qt3 apps (Kwrite)
and GTK apps (Firefox). That will be difficult on your system, no
doubt. I hope that you don't open an OpenOffice window with all that
going on!


> There are a couple non-KDE apps I'm also suspicious of, Evolution is
> one of them. Keep meaning to change my default mail client to Kmail as
> I hate Evolution and the army of child processes it spawns.
>
>
>> Again, this is a distro issue. Does PA or Jack work better under
>> Gnome? I honestly don't know too much about the sound systems, but I
>> did not realize they were so dependant on the desktop environment.
>
> Jack except on Fedora seems to work decently or at least works mostly
> with Gnome. On Fedora it's a real chore to get it to work under any
> desktop. No idea why Jack hates Fedora or vice versa. On Ubuntu Jack
> usually works in Gnome but rarely works or if it actually works will
> work for long under KDE. At least 3.x still need to upgrade my laptop
> to see. I might get 20 mins into an editing session and suddenly the
> sound goes out. At least Jack does. If a system bell or anything else
> makes a peep I can count on Jack going bye bye until I restart KDE. I
> can try installing Jack on this machine but it's Fedora so it'll
> probably not work.
>

Please file bugs at Ubuntu on this. I don't use of know Jack, so I
cannot help, but this list might help you:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-Studio-devel



-- 
Dotan Cohen

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