Larry Stotler said the following on 12/24/2008 09:04 AM:
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Rob OpenSuSE
wrote: Perhaps something that's more intelligent, about building it's indexes. If it's never used, why carry on doing them everyday? Perhaps first time you start up a desktop, you could be asked, if you plan to use desktop search : often, rarely or never.
Agreed. In the DoZe world, I'm constantly seeing google desktop et al installed and never used. People just dont' uncheck it when they install something.
I have no reason for a search tool either. Most of my data is structured so that I only need to do a couple of clicks to get to it. If I do need to search for a file name, Midnight Commander is just a console away.
I had noticed that neopunk thing when I did an install of the KDE4 live cd. It looked like it crashed, but I didn't have any idea what it was. Will have to add that one to my black list.
and there no way to _completely_ get rid of - I like that name! - neopunk. Its hard wired in as a library rather than plug-in for Konqueror and Dolphin and many others. Which is odd as these programs support plug-ins. I can get rid of the main executables in /usr/bin/ but the libraries hang around. There a LOT of stuff that should be an optional plug-in. Many programs are supporting some kind of plug-in mechanism. Its easy enough with dynamic libraries, but the link/loader and Yast/zypper needs to know that these are options and no necessities. However this is a design decision, not a normal bug. Bugzilla is oriented to functional failings or missing parts rather than 'you shouldn't do it that way' issues. I know full well that while the end result can be a cleaner, simple system on my desktop, one that's easier to maintain and doesn't have 'side effects' packages (like this dog) the reaction from the coders will be something of the order of "Well, that your opinion, and its a free world and everyone's entitled to their own opinion, so why don't you go code it". As if everyone is a coder. Now if this was some ballet dancer such as Lynn Seymour would you get a reply of the form "if you don't like it then dance it yourself"? I think not. And ballerinas are supposed to have prima-donna egos. There is a 'long tail' of unwanted stuff that gets dragged in when you try to install many applications. I can understand necessary libraries, by what FORCE what is really an optional extension? -- The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. Saint Jerome, Letter 48 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org