This past weekend I uninstalled KDE4 from my Desktop. When I first started playing around with Linux, my first desktop was KDE 1.something. Even though it didn’t have the polish of Windows, I could see that it had a lot of potential. With KDE 3.5, I was in Desktop heaven. But
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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lozz
2 years 16 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago
Dog's breakfast
After the zenith of KDE 3.5, the absolute nadir of the dog's breakfast they called KDE 4 was a shattering blow to those who loved the KDE desktop. It has stayed that way, ever since.
The author is correct in his assumption that something has gone seriously wrong with the attitude of the developers. They seem to have contracted some form of terminal madness.
aboutblank
2 years 16 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago
I think you're too harsh
I think you're too harsh. KDE4 was always intended to be developed over multiple years. You don't rewrite something of KDE's magnitude without significant effort that would span multiple years.
So KDE4 doesn't work as well as you'd like. You could sit here and whine about how it's not working for you or you could take a more proactive approach to getting your system working. You could write and contribute some code, pay someone else to contribute code on your behalf (I highly recommend this option) or you could invest other non-programming effort into the project such as documentation help or learning to file helpful bug reports.
tetris4
2 years 16 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago
Progress
Although I was too disappointed from KDE 4.0, it's my belief that with every new release since then, (the newest being 4.3.5 if am not mistaken) things only get better.
I can only hope it will continue like that.
Ubuntu87
2 years 16 weeks 3 days 43 min ago
Well, for me it's really heavy and annoying.
I have installed KDE 4.4 release candidate on my machine, but there are two major problems that are turning my computing experience a into a living hell:
1. It's so very buggy, Plasma desktop crashes on me like 5 times a day, and what's making it even worse is that the debugging tools are not helpful at all. However, when I asked over at the IRC channel, they told me it has to do with the current version of qt, and I should upgrade to the newer version, which hasn't hit the repos. yet, so I'm gonna have to wait a little.
2. It's so friggin' heavy! I have a 1GB of RAM, but it's still very slow and sometimes it really freaks me off!
And yeah, I'm currently planning on switching to XFCE, but I'll wait a little to make sure it's as good as I hope it is.