On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Duncan wrote:
FWIW, the type of breakage parallel make issues cause is, AFAIK, always a build-time breakage. If it builds fine but fails at run-time, it's not due to parallel make, but due to some other reason.
That's excellent to hear! Well, I've enabled '-j3' then on two of my machines. They're both quad cores, and I'd like to always leave at least one core completely free. Thanks for the tip.
I've never met a desktop environment that I liked in default config. FWIW, that's one of the reasons I'm a kde guy, as the lack of proper config options for gnome drives me crazy.
Even Linus Torvalds has griped about Gnome on that issue (which must have been very embarrassing for the Gnome devels...). I find myself using Gnome a lot at work though instead of KDE, because when I have all those desktop options, it makes me want to tweak them all day, and I can't help myself. At least with Gnome, my hands are tied, so then I can get some work done. :)
Early kde4 was as pretty much everyone agrees now, simply a mess. 4.4 is a reasonable release candidate, and 4.5 is honestly the first 4.x version I can without qualms recommend to pretty much anyone and everyone.)
I'll try it out again sometime... From what I've heard, Phonon actually works with pro audio apps a lot better than artsd ever did. (Actually what pro audio apps do with artsd is ignore and bypass it.) The last I tried KDE 4, I think they were at 4.2, and they didn't even have Konsole at a point where it didn't feel like a handicapped version with most of its features stripped. I thought that if they couldn't even make the terminal emulator work, what's the point. I'll give it another shot though.
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