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for those using opensuse 12.1 and want to update:
Add those repos:
zypper dup --from name_repo_1 && name_repo_2
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Many people complain that KDE contains horrible amount of bugs, but it also contain awesome amount of practical functionality that other environments miss and it seems to me that most of the bugs are in applications like Amarok and luckily not in the core systems (ie. Plasma, KWin) since ~4.6.
KWin and its setting dialogs are just wonderful since KDE 3.5. I've never managed to find ALT+<rightclick | leftclick> behavior settings in Gnome (I like ALT windows resizing and use no window borders.) and things like setting if ALT-TAB cycle windows from all desktops or just one desktop.
Many also curse dolphin IMHO, but changing default file browser works like charm and i.e. I love dolphin, it's simple, tabbed, can be very conveniently controlled entirely by keyboard, feature combined button/editable addressbar (This can't be found in Nautilus or Thunar) and supports treeview. Btw. one can turn of those side panels or even menu+toolbars of course.Last edited by Grawp; 01 August 2012, 01:56 PM.
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Bugs that are really annoying:
- Some windows minimize towards the center of the desktop rather than towards the task bar. Qt Creator and tvtime always trigger that bug here.
- KWin is very slow and choppy with low power GPU modes (50Mhz graphics / 135Mhz mem / 101Mhz proc). So I have to force a higher performance level.
- Icons "jump" around when hovering the mouse over them (Desktop as well as in Dolphin). Doesn't always happen. Whether it happens or not seems to be fixed at login time.
- Switching keyboard layout ignores the desktop (the desktop will use the last layout of the last application.)
- KMix lacks some mixer sliders offered to me by alsamixer. Namely the "front", "rear", "center", "woofer" and "side" sliders. Only "master" is offered. This is with an Asus Xonar D1 card.
- KDM stopped remembering the user name of the last logged in user after 4.6.
- Admin password prompts are in stealth mode. Practically, you wait for a long time for the button you just clicked to do something, only to discover that this whole time a password prompt was opened that is hidden behind the current window.
- Even though I set KDE to always automount new devices when I plug them in, it doesn't work with everything; I still have to click on "mount" in the plasma notifier.
- The "back" and "forward" buttons of my mice (all of them) don't work. No going back/forward with them in stuff like Konqueror, Dolphin or file dialogs.
There are other smaller annoyances, but they're simply due to broken design rather than being bugs (for example the resize handle on borderless windows sometimes cover scrollbar buttons and statusbar information.)
I still like KDE very much :-) It's just these things get very annoying and it's very disappointing every time I update my KDE installation and see they haven't been addressed. (I did report them on bugs.kde.org of course.)Last edited by RealNC; 01 August 2012, 01:27 PM.
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Does it support Wayland?
How is the Wayland support coming along?
Maybe the startmenu needs to be improved or redesigned or replaced?
Originally posted by RealNC View PostAnd none of the bugs fixed, probably. And new bugs introduced. Most stuff in KDE has been on a downwards slope the last year.
The Team also set up a more rigorous testing process for releases starting with beta versions. New testing volunteers received training; and several testing intensive days were held. Rather than traditional exploratory testing, testers were assigned to focus on specific areas that had changed since previous releases. For several critical components, full testing checklists were developed and used. The team found many important issues early and worked with developers to make sure they were fixed. The Team itself reported over 160 bugs with the beta and RC releases, many of which have now been fixed. Other beta and RC users added considerably to the number of bugs reported. These efforts are important because they allow developers to concentrate on fixing issues.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostAnd none of the bugs fixed, probably. And new bugs introduced. Most stuff in KDE has been on a downwards slope the last year.
Let's hope 4.9 is an exception. KDE has more bugs than MS-DOS, Windows 95 and Windows Me put together. Amarok and Phonon have even gotten to a point where it's not possible to play your music anymore.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostAnd none of the bugs fixed, probably.
Most stuff in KDE has been on a downwards slope the last year.
Amarok has not messed up for me in quite a while, and the phonon+pulseaudio have become a rather nice combination on my machines (realising exactly the promises made by pulseaudio giving linux a modern sound stack). I'd be glad to help you out if you want to give it another try. I have seen wine having trouble with pulseaudio though, and those issues are still there. Seems the wine crew are the last to embrace pulseaudio.
On the application side I am particularly impressed by Digikam, Kdenlive and Krita (loving kde-pim too btw). They really make KDE shine. I am planning on getting to know Kdevelop a whole lot better at work, and looking forward to it.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostAnd none of the bugs fixed, probably. And new bugs introduced. Most stuff in KDE has been on a downwards slope the last year.
Let's hope 4.9 is an exception. KDE has more bugs than MS-DOS, Windows 95 and Windows Me put together. Amarok and Phonon have even gotten to a point where it's not possible to play your music anymore.
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