Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format)

Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format)

Posted Oct 5, 2006 12:39 UTC (Thu) by lysse (subscriber, #3190)
In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format) by Janne
Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth interview (Linux Format)

> KDE has quite solid infrastructure.

Maybe so. However, every release of Slackware sees me starting up KDE, enjoying it for a while, and then starting to notice all the little things that don't work (it's been a while, I can't come up with examples) or that stop working - for example, in every Slack KDE so far, on whichever of my machines I've tried it on, after any length of use of Konqueror, something will happen that kills its ability to spawn KIOslaves (or the ability of KIOslaves to open) at which point it ceases to be any use as a web browser; and the fact that if I print a page in KWord the spacing of letters is, to say the least, bizarre. So since I seem to spend most of my time in Firefox and Abiword with or without KDE, I end up ditching it and going back to boring old Fluxbox, and vowing to try it again next time.

I'll see whether it's fixed in Slackware 11. I really hope it is - there are many reasons I'd love to use KDE (kate, Konqueror, solitaire, KOffice, the level of integration and just-works, lyx-qt, and all the other reasons) - but if there are alternatives I can use now that work now (and don't mysteriously forget how to do anything with a hyperlink) I might as well stick with what works, bloated and inefficient though it may be.

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