Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (91 mails)

[David Herman <mesamoo115@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 02 August 2008, Wilfried Lahme wrote:
> Hello,
>
> System is:
>
> OpenSuse 11.0
> KDE 3.5.9
> Amarok ist sleeping!
>
> I'm trying to tell Amarok to get a collection of 24.121 Songs and
> Classics in mp3 and ogg since now about two weeks!
>
> It's always the same:
>
> Amarok ist working between a night and two days an than threre is
> no collection!
>
> Amarok had gone without telling anything, displaying a message or
> error, it's just away!

It sounds like you may be using the amarok beta?

1.4... works with my collection of more than 100,000 songs
(although it goes to "sleep" for long periods of time if I try to 
have my whole collection loaded and playing randomly.
> Give a chance to engaged users to test KDE 4.x beside 3.x (may be
> up to a 3.6 or 3.7)! But in a way where 4.x doesn't touch the 3.x
> in any way!

Let me get this mini-rant out of the way and then perhaps I can give 
you a little help.

I also am not so happy with many things about kde4 (pretty much any 
design choice that reminds me of the way gnome, or macintosh would 
force me to work) PS I apologize in advance if this offends gnome 
users, I do like much gnome software, just some workflow things I 
have no interest in getting used to.

Having gotten everyone mad now I would just like to say I have faith 
in the kde team, I like many things about 4.1 and can see it 
growing. On the other hand I don't want to see development and 
support of kde3... go away until kde4... allows me to work the way 
I like.

Perhaps the kde4 way is the better way, but currently I feel like 
this better way often requires me to use 3 or 4 mouse clicks to do 
something that is possible with only 1 click in kde3. And things 
that took up very little screen space in 3.5 often require much 
more space in 4.1.

I always tell my daughter to use the tool that works best for her. 
As far as I can tell openSuSE is letting us do just that.

Now to your problem. I am using kde3 and kde4.1 on suse 10.3 with no 
problems whatsoever, as far as I can tell. There are 1 or 2 
programs that seem to have been replaced by kde4 versions but 
basically the system still functions as before. kde 3 and 4 keep 
their executables and preferences completely seperate.

Just install 3.5... and be happy.

I only tried to use suse 11 for about a week but it kept locking my 
machine up horribly so I haven't touched it since, I'll wait for 
11.1

See ya


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dh
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