[kde] Re: Question for the old hands, about disks

2011-04-14 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:25:47 PM Duncan did opine: > gene heskett posted on Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:42:46 -0400 as excerpted: > > As I have gone about preparing /dev/sdb to move the install to it, I > > have had several instances where the machine was frozen, usually for > > about 70 seconds at

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Duncan
John Layt posted on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:17:12 +0100 as excerpted: > On Thursday 14 Apr 2011 15:29:17 Billie Walsh wrote: >> On 04/14/2011 08:59 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: >> > On Thursday 14 April 2011 13:23:33 Billie Walsh wrote: >> >> I suppose we all have our favorite parts of KDE. For me it's Quan

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Clemens Eisserer
> In my opinion, the major problem here is not the timing, but rather that > after putting version 4.N out, focus switches to version 4.N+1 instead > of focusing 90% on 4.N.1, .2, etc.  This way, a truly nice, stable and > solid release in never achieved.  The devs always hunt after the next > big

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/14/2011 09:45 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: >[...] > Another problem is the release cycle. The cycle is so short, that even > many bugs reported during > alpha stage aren't fixed. At release-time, devs are already working on > new features, often not backporting their fixes. > So you end up aga

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread John Layt
On Thursday 14 Apr 2011 15:29:17 Billie Walsh wrote: > On 04/14/2011 08:59 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 14 April 2011 13:23:33 Billie Walsh wrote: > >> I suppose we all have our favorite parts of KDE. For me it's Quanta. For > >> whatever reason the devs at wherever have pretty much decid

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Peter Nikolic
On Thursday 14 April 2011 14:34:47 Billie Walsh wrote: > On 04/14/2011 08:20 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > > Hi, > > > >> I suppose we all have our favorite parts of KDE. For me it's Quanta. For > >> whatever reason the devs at wherever have pretty much decided it was not > >> worth the effort to

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Billie Walsh
On 04/14/2011 08:59 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 14 April 2011 13:23:33 Billie Walsh wrote: >> On 04/14/2011 01:45 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I use KDE since 1998/1999 with kde-1.1 beeing the first version I >>> remember having used. >>> I always found it to be simply the b

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 14 April 2011 13:23:33 Billie Walsh wrote: > On 04/14/2011 01:45 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I use KDE since 1998/1999 with kde-1.1 beeing the first version I > > remember having used. > > I always found it to be simply the best Desktop Environment, > > escpecially duri

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Billie Walsh
On 04/14/2011 08:20 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Hi, > >> I suppose we all have our favorite parts of KDE. For me it's Quanta. For >> whatever reason the devs at wherever have pretty much decided it was not >> worth the effort to bring it along with KDE 4.x. There is one person >> trying to bring

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, > I suppose we all have our favorite parts of KDE. For me it's Quanta. For > whatever reason the devs at wherever have pretty much decided it was not > worth the effort to bring it along with KDE 4.x. There is one person > trying to bring it along and I hope someday he manages to do it. No of

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Billie Walsh
On 04/14/2011 01:45 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Hi, > > I use KDE since 1998/1999 with kde-1.1 beeing the first version I > remember having used. > I always found it to be simply the best Desktop Environment, > escpecially during KDE-2.x/3.x times. > Since KDE-4 I am not that happy anymore. Earl

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi Rafa, Probably I've just seen too much bad examples. I saw all the crashes during 4.1, I had to live with the dbus bugs, wih kmix crashes. I can't even count all the bugs I had to arrange me with going from 4.1 to 4.6 ;) For now I have exactly 43 bugs "open". And now when I updated to kde-4.6

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Rafa Griman
Hi :) On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Hi, > > I use KDE since 1998/1999 with kde-1.1 beeing the first version I > remember having used. > I always found it to be simply the best Desktop Environment, > escpecially during KDE-2.x/3.x times. > Since KDE-4 I am not that hap

[kde] Re: KDE Quality (problems)

2011-04-14 Thread Jonathan Raphael Joachim Kolberg
Am Donnerstag, 14. April 2011, 08:45:50 schrieb Clemens Eisserer: > Furthermore KDE accumulated tons > of code over time (I still don't see the reason it carries its own > Office-Suite, HTML-Rendering engine, instant messanger, Media Player, > whatever), but only few guys are actually working on th