On Tuesday 26 January 2010 08:37:36 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
1/2 of the plasmoids aren't configurable, so if your system
differs in any appreciable amount from the plasmoid dev then you may have
issues and then either stick with it and deal (aka Half baked plasmoid)
or drop it and "hope" you'll find something that might work... Take the
many versions of weather plasmoids...
Yes, exactly! Please, please comment on these issues (even the closed
ones, as they are still valid for the most part):
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167132
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168579
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182193
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185447
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193015
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196307
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193802
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164355
Ah man! There was a reason I dropped from the beta programs . I have been very torn between my
loyalty for SuSE <note spelling=old style> and the changes that Novell has imposed.
Having people like Mantel and other members of the original team leave didn't help.
There came a point when I realized the any contributions I might add would most
likely <and apparently usually> be superseded by a Novell project exec.
Truth be told I'm using K4 now but only because the folder view feature became more
functional and it resembled what I have come to expect from a desktop environ. Also
truth be told if a could afford a new MAC tower I'd be there already (especially
considering one can run windows programs in a virtual environ now with little or no
problems,.. meaning my old games will work). As it is now half the features that K4
offers are useless IMHO. It wasn't until recently that I moved over and this was
because k4.3.x or x.4.4 versions seem more developed. I just don't understand why
SuSE, a primary contributor and promoter of KDE for all these years would have a KDE
package that was vastly (yes vastly) inferior and incomplete that say Mandriva or
Ubuntu (hell even RH had a better KDE package for a while). The boils down the De
Icaza/Ximian push that's all Novell IMHO. Novell is insistent on pushing GTK and
Gnome, gtk because of license over QT.. which isn't an issue so much anymore.
Overall, I guess my dis-taste for the plasma/plasmoid in general is my reason for
avoiding the issue overall. Most plasmoids are oversized, ugly, kludgy, and more or
less tailored to the dev that made it.... And I thought the dev environ for GNOME
was an issue? As soon as one realizes that other distros seem to be able to put
together a more functional/less glitchy K4 package than "openSUSE" then the sooner
one will realize that this isn't an issue so much with the devs at openSUSE as it
with the management/executive direction various projects are given - this becomes
further apparent when one review the policies and strategies that Novell put in place
in previous decades ( I mean lets not forget who gaves the SCO saga... Mostly ex-
Novell execs).
If I run into any showstoppers I file a bug report... I just don't have the time (or
inclination of late) to shake out K4 and track bugs.
Ciao, Curtis.
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