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 <lol back in the day when one had to get invited to test/shake out>. 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 be superseded by a Novell project exec.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. -- BEWARE! Spammers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! Those throwing objects at the alligators will be asked to retrieve them! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org