KDE 4.4.1

 KDE4  3 Responses »
Mar 032010
 

Just updated my laptop at work to kde 4.4.1… and I have to say, that was refreshingly painless.

Even with that akonadi pim storage and strigi/nepomuk desktop search indexing going on in the background.

I’ve seen others saying that (at least on the first run) either of those two can totally lock up your system by eating all memory and then some. But that was in KDE 4.4.0.

Edit:

Seems that composite effects are much faster and way more stable in this release… switched the stuff on and it’s still damn well usable, on a cripple graphics chipset intel graphics chipset…

Now i actually have to read the "what’s new" docs for kde 4.4.x….

Twitter clients for KDE4

 KDE4  1 Response »
Sep 172009
 

For obvious reasons I’ve been investigating twitter clients for KDE4.

So far I found 3 (native) clients.

There’s a twitter plasmoid which is very basic, it only shows your oen timeline and you can post tweets. nothing else. Haven’t found a URL for that one, at least on openSUSE it’s in OBS Factory.

Then there’s qwit, a qt-based fully featured client, with replies and all the other stuff, which is pretty good for me but on my wife’s laptop prevents her from logging out cleanly from KDE4.

Last is choqok, fully kde4 integrated, seems pretty good so far. Going to test some more.

KDE 4.3.1

 KDE4  No Responses »
Sep 092009
 

Now that KDE 4.3.1 is out, the whole thing becomes actually usable…
… still, I just wish they hadn’t removed so much functionality that I was used to have.
Current list of grievances:

  • Amaroks "smart playlists" are still dumb
  • Amarok has lost all kind of k3b-related features
  • dragon replaced kaffeine… too bad that dragon can’t even do something as simple as a playlist :/
  • No way to find out the filename of the current wallpaper from a shell like you could in KDE3 with dcop
  • ever so often plasma widgets forget their settings
  • kontact/kmail crashes on startup when you had to quit it because it started to ignore your keyboard

KDE4

 KDE3, KDE4, Rants  2 Responses »
May 062009
 

I’ve been using KDE4 alongside with KDE3 for some time now.

Here’s my summary:

  • Eyecandy is pretty but slows down your computer
  • Some features that I’ve been using in KDE3 are missing from KDE4
  • Quite a number of KDE Applications got “dumbed down” in the move to KDE4

Best example for the last point is amarok.
The old amarok had these “intelligent playlists” where you could set up all kind of filters to get an automatic, refilling playlist. Like, you would set up something like “15 random tracks that are from one of the following categories, AND have not been played in the last X days”.

In amarok on KDE4 you can set a filter to “has not been played after (this or that fixed date)”, and you can set a filter to one category, and you have these weird “accuracy” sliders… and it is quite unclear if the two or more filters are linked by “and” or “or”…

Another simple point: In KDE3 you could add a submenu of your applications menu to show up in kicker as a separate “startmenu”… in KDE4 you can’t.

Next one…
on KDE4 the context menu of your desktop doesn’t have a “lock” or “logout” item…

Then there are a few annoyances as well, such as a screensaver password that has to be entered twice even though you’ve set the screensaver not to ask for a password at all…

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