Everything I used regularly, KDE 4 didn't do.
Every feature of KDE 4 I
discovered was something I
wanted to disable, but couldn't. The thing that
caused a torrent of swearing was Nepomuk.
Nepomuk is supposed to index
my well organised
file system so I can search for things I know exactly
where
to find (OK, sometimes I use grep).
Nepomuk could use one low-priority thread
for indexing. Instead it used 4 high priority threads.
When it indexed my SSD,
smooth mouse movement became
one jump every minute or two. It was so bad I had
to log in from a virtual console to shut down. Even
that took ages.
I
found a configuration window for
Nepomuk, so I told it not to index anything,
not to
index my PVR drive and not to index video files.
The next thing it did
was index the video files on
my PVR drive.
After a quick web search, I
found page explaining
how to disable Nepomuk. The instructions demonstrated
that effort had been made to make this difficult,
and they were full of
swearing which I
considered understated considering the circumstances.
There
was a post from one of the developers explaining
that we should not disable
Nepomuk because he needed
bug reports. I assume this was for his
collection.
I went through a bunch of window managers, some
of which
nearly did what I want. KDE 3 (now called
Trinity) is a bit
over-complicated,
but it does have every thing I want
and the rest either does not get in my way
or can be
turned off (except that horrible scroll thing that
irritates me
every time I paste into a text box).
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