{"id":211,"date":"2009-08-21T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=211"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:35:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:35:27","slug":"more-on-kde-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"More on KDE 4.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like KDE 4.3. Let&#8217;s make that perfectly clear, because after reading this, you might get the wrong idea.<\/p>\n<p>KDE 4.3 ha a far more finished look and feel than 4.2. Things seem to be better integrated and the crashes are fewer, with fewer causes. I&#8217;ve finally got the hang of Dolphin (that tricky address bar, for one thing), and I even got Kscd to work.<\/p>\n<p>But.<\/p>\n<p>There are many annoyances as well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>KMix mutes the master volume on every startup (I only have to unmute it and turn the volume up, but this is very annoying to do on every startup).<\/li>\n<li>Okular won&#8217;t accept (or remember) landscape print settings (Document Viewer from Gnome, that uses the same printer drivers, as far as I can tell,has no problems).<\/li>\n<li>The eye candy on Desktop settings usually crashes parts of the KDE environment, with the taskbar going first, if you try more than one or two settings.<\/li>\n<li>The PulseAudio\/Phonon combo is very unreliable. With GStreamer, it won&#8217;t output sound, but with the Xine backend, it usually does.<\/li>\n<li>Amarok no longer knows how to play CDs. I tried to use Rhythmbox but it chops up CD audio in 15-second bursts with a 200 ms pause between every one, and for the life of me, I can&#8217;t figure out why.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the eye candy issues could easily be related to the (very) buggy Intel Xorg driver, but I still think that KDE shouldn&#8217;t crash as a result.<\/p>\n<p>On the whole, I like the environment, though. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like KDE 4.3. Let&#8217;s make that perfectly clear, because after reading this, you might get the wrong idea. KDE 4.3 ha a far more finished look and feel than 4.2. Things seem to be better integrated and the crashes are fewer, with fewer causes. I&#8217;ve finally got the hang of Dolphin (that tricky address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[108,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}