"Kiith-Sa" <4...@theanswer.com> wrote in message news:stutnobwbglkcuyeq...@dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net... > > Disable akonadi: alt+f2, start typing akonadi, akonadi configuration menu > will appear, click it, go to akonadi server configuration tab, press stop > at the bottom right. Also uncheck Use internal MYsQL server. Notification > will show that akonadi has been stopped. > > Disable Semantic Desktop: > 1)System Settings -> Desktop Search -> Basic Settings, untick Nepomuk and > Strigi > > 2)System Settings -> Desktop Search -> Desktop Query, untick "Index files > on removable media" and untick every folder under "Customise index > folders." > 3)System Settings -> Desktop Search -> Backup, set "Backup frequency" to > Disable > > Disable Notifications: > a: System Settings -> Application and System Notifications -> Manage > Notifications, untick all the "Show me a message in a popup" under > "Desktop Search" and Semantic Desktop" >
Ahh, thanks. Strigi was already off, and I couldn't find "Desktop Search -> Desktop Query" or "Desktop Search -> Backup", but everything else was on and I turned them off. We'll see how it goes. > > Note that KDE on Ubuntu has historically been fucked up. > I've had much better experience on OpenSuse. > (not sure why, but a lot of KDE people hate Kubuntu for > giving KDE bad credit) > Interesting, I didn't know. > I'm currently using Kubuntu 11.10 with KDE 4.7 though, and haven't > encountered any bugs - except social desktop, which I disabled > (Kubuntu/KDE4.6 wasn't usable - OpenSuse was) > > That said, KDE 4.8 is going to be released in 2 days, and it's mostly > bugfixes and optimizations. So if you try KDE4 again, I recommend waiting > for the next round of distros with 4.8 . > > KDE plans for 4.9 is also bugfixes, while 5.0 (don't panic) should be a > refactor > without breaking user interface - but they plan to clean up the APIs (as > opposed to 4.0 - where they rewrote everything from scratch). > Yea, bugs aside, I actually don't really like the UI much anyway. For example, the notification system is not really great and is overused anyway (Example: Extract an archive in dolphin, the new directory for it appears, "Oh, ok, great, that was fast", go about your own business, a minute later see a message saying that only *NOW* has it actually finished extracting.) > > I'm not sure if Trinity has enough devs to do anything but maintain KDE3 > comptatibility - MATE seems more promising to me (I liked Gnome 2 even > though > I'm converted to KDE now). Haven't heard of MATE, I'll look into it.
