KDE turned 22 today

[Matt Graham]

On 2018-10-27 21:03, Michael Butash wrote:
> I'd love some ideas from someone in better favour than some random
> person quipping about his 3-6 displays misbehaving every time they
> hotplug in and rearranges every frigging window open.

I think part of the problem is that not many people *have* that many 
monitors.  As a result, the developers don't / can't make sure that a 
6-monitor setup works properly.  I don't have enough room on my home 
desk for more than 2, and my job probably wouldn't buy me another 
monitor.  It's not necessary for me--2560x1440 is plenty of space.

> I really wish kde had their arse together, it's got the right
> things for good integration, but it swings and misses in so many
> ways.  Amarok is a of this, I always tried it, and found it
> simply difficult and buggy to use, so I had to use rhythmbox or
> banshee as an alt to it.  Same with kmail, krdc, and finally
> just the entire DE vs. having to reboot from destabilization
> of the os within 3-4 days.

I have not ever seen this happen with my systems, and I've been using 
KDE since 1999.  I only restart KDE when there's a KDE or X version 
upgrade.  Then again, I'm not using Ubuntu, but Gentoo, and Gentoo is 
probably a lot more paranoid about bugs than Ubuntu is, and Ubuntu 
doesn't really care about KDE.  Never used Amarok though.  (x11amp, 
xmms, then audacious, because they can all use winamp skins.)  dolphin 
(file manager) has always worked without problems, konsole (terminal 
emulator) has always been fine, OpenGL and 3D have always worked fine.  
Then again, I have a much more vanilla setup with only 1 monitor and 1 
video card.

> Screen locking is yet another small but huge problem for me too on
> any/every platform, distro or de.  The DE seems to randomly decide
> when it actually wants to lock or not

This is also something I have never seen.  Then again, I don't have my 
desktop set to lock after N minutes, because it's in my house and that 
would be inconvenient.  It worked fine on my older laptop.

> Any graphic gl rendering instantly nullifies screen lock on linux.
> on nvidia, radeon, or intel improperly, so really don't even know
> who to bug.

What are the steps to reproducing this?  I found a completely different 
problem when I tried to manually lock the screen.  The root window went 
black, and white text saying something like "The screen unlocker is 
broken, do (thing that doesn't work) to unlock the screen."  How did 
this happen?  It worked months ago....

>> I'd love to hear from someone actually using kmail too. 

I abandoned kmail when it stopped allowing you to store your local 
files as mdir or mbox and wanted you to use their weird database-ish 
thing that no other client uses.  mdir is a standard for a *reason*, 
people.  It may not be sexy or new or wonderful, but every mail client 
that's not a toy should be able to use it.

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