Comments for Hacking Corner http://blog.fealdia.org Ramblings of a free software enthusiast Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:43:49 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on About by hoxu http://blog.fealdia.org/about/comment-page-1/#comment-8922 hoxu Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:43:49 +0000 http://toaster.fealdia.org/blog/about/#comment-8922 You probably tried to access it while I was upgrading apache on that box, should be accessible now :) You probably tried to access it while I was upgrading apache on that box, should be accessible now :)

]]> Comment on About by Maxe http://blog.fealdia.org/about/comment-page-1/#comment-8864 Maxe Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:58:02 +0000 http://toaster.fealdia.org/blog/about/#comment-8864 Hi, http://supybook.fealdia.org/ is down :( Can you provide a download link for the book? Great work btw! Thanks in advance Hi,

http://supybook.fealdia.org/ is down :(

Can you provide a download link for the book? Great work btw!

Thanks in advance

]]> Comment on Gmail not forwarding all mail… yes it is by TJ http://blog.fealdia.org/2008/06/01/gmail-not-forwarding-all-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-8715 TJ Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:40:50 +0000 http://blog.fealdia.org/?p=54#comment-8715 <a href="#comment-8598" rel="nofollow">@Gabe</a> My Gmail in two of my accounts is not forwarding mail. This is a recent event. Is there a reason for this? Or a known bug tat anyone here may know about? @Gabe
My Gmail in two of my accounts is not forwarding mail. This is a recent event. Is there a reason for this? Or a known bug tat anyone here may know about?

]]> Comment on Gmail not forwarding all mail… yes it is by Gabe http://blog.fealdia.org/2008/06/01/gmail-not-forwarding-all-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-8598 Gabe Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:17:18 +0000 http://blog.fealdia.org/?p=54#comment-8598 I don't know about that. When I send externally it's not forwarding either. Maybe it does it inconsistently I don’t know about that. When I send externally it’s not forwarding either. Maybe it does it inconsistently

]]> Comment on KDE 4.3 sucks, too by kdella http://blog.fealdia.org/2009/09/06/kde-4-3-sucks-too/comment-page-1/#comment-8150 kdella Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:40:44 +0000 http://blog.fealdia.org/?p=442#comment-8150 have you guys seen the youtube of the new CairoDock 2.1, its an openGL dock that uses 0% cpu, its totally animated. I just run compiz + cairodock + thunar file manager (i don't even use nautilus). compiz is fast, i don't run gnome desktop just the window manager and the dock.. but i run both KDE and gtk apps. i don't know why anyone would run KDE4 its a mess, neither would i run gnome desktop. i like the roll your own approach and love the dock (i hate start bars). a lot of the good software is GTK based (Firefox, Inkscape, Gimp) but I do want to try out krita (id use both that and the gimp), and the kexi database front end. Let them make their desktops, there always will be people like me who just run compiz and a dock and ignore the gnome3.x and kde4x. I love the eye candy in compiz, but to build a desktop around 'plasma' is a nightmare idea. oh well. remain desktop agnostic. have you guys seen the youtube of the new CairoDock 2.1, its an openGL dock that uses 0% cpu, its totally animated. I just run compiz + cairodock + thunar file manager (i don’t even use nautilus). compiz is fast, i don’t run gnome desktop just the window manager and the dock.. but i run both KDE and gtk apps. i don’t know why anyone would run KDE4 its a mess, neither would i run gnome desktop. i like the roll your own approach and love the dock (i hate start bars). a lot of the good software is GTK based (Firefox, Inkscape, Gimp) but I do want to try out krita (id use both that and the gimp), and the kexi database front end. Let them make their desktops, there always will be people like me who just run compiz and a dock and ignore the gnome3.x and kde4x. I love the eye candy in compiz, but to build a desktop around ‘plasma’ is a nightmare idea. oh well. remain desktop agnostic.

]]> Comment on KDE 4.3 sucks, too by marc http://blog.fealdia.org/2009/09/06/kde-4-3-sucks-too/comment-page-1/#comment-7838 marc Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:55:46 +0000 http://blog.fealdia.org/?p=442#comment-7838 It does suck. It incorrect to blame it on the graphics drivers. I have both laptop with NVIDIA and one with ATI and both show graphics corruptions (although not as bad as shown here). I wonder if the KDE developers actually use KDE themselves. THere are so many small annoyances and bugs. I have stopped reporting them now, because the team simply does not act on the bug reports. It does suck.
It incorrect to blame it on the graphics drivers. I have both laptop with NVIDIA and one with ATI and both show graphics corruptions (although not as bad as shown here).

I wonder if the KDE developers actually use KDE themselves. THere are so many small annoyances and bugs. I have stopped reporting them now, because the team simply does not act on the bug reports.

]]> Comment on KDE 4.2 sucks by Bill http://blog.fealdia.org/2009/04/26/kde-42-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-7680 Bill Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:50:15 +0000 http://blog.fealdia.org/?p=418#comment-7680 After having just given Kubuntu another chance, I went straight to google and searched for "kde sucks". Thinking there had to be people who could relate to my frustration. An now, lucky blogger, I'm going to vent my frustration over this-a-way. I like my desktop set up a certain way. So the first thing I do when I install is move things around to my liking. But: - You can't drag icons to the panel. - You can't easily re-arrange or put space between icons on the panel. - The interface to adjust panel setting (width, screen placement, etc) is gaudy, bloated, and buggy. - Stupid "K" fetish - The damn wallet is required for wifi keys, then gets in the way of wifi connecting after I reboot - Desktop on top of a desktop... why...? - I installed KDE because I wanted to run Kompozer. Just a wild guess, but I assumed that because of the "K", it's happy native place would be KDE, right? Wrong. At least about the "happy" part. The insert -> form menu crashes the app every single time. I reinstalled with ubuntu, installed Kompozer, and it works perfectly. - When I put a data CD into KDE, it pops up an empty window.. it sees the disk, but fails to mount it. Just opens a nice empty window for me, showing me where the binaries would have been had it been successful in opening the CD. Doesn't show up under /media* either. Ubuntu, on the other hand, mounted it flawlessly. - Stupid K menu. I don't want to click a back arrow to go back to the root menu. There's more, believe me. And yeah, I know, it's all customizable I'm sure. Buried somewhere deep under a million options and menus. But I do unix stuff all day at work, and the last thing I want to do is come home and fight with a bastardized buggy gaudy bloated version of what I deal with all day. I just want to relax and easily do my thing on an OS that I'm comfortable with. In that respect, for me, KDE 4.x is epic failure. The KDE approach seems to be that the window manager is an application in and of itself. That people will spend hours enjoying the eye candy of changing the placement of their panel bar, messing with that goofy transparent mini-desktop, and Klicking Kopete from their K menu to Kontact their Komrades about how Kool Kwallet is. Ugh. Sorry, I'm done. After having just given Kubuntu another chance, I went straight to google and searched for “kde sucks”. Thinking there had to be people who could relate to my frustration. An now, lucky blogger, I’m going to vent my frustration over this-a-way.

I like my desktop set up a certain way. So the first thing I do when I install is move things around to my liking. But:

- You can’t drag icons to the panel.
- You can’t easily re-arrange or put space between icons on the panel.
- The interface to adjust panel setting (width, screen placement, etc) is gaudy, bloated, and buggy.
- Stupid “K” fetish
- The damn wallet is required for wifi keys, then gets in the way of wifi connecting after I reboot
- Desktop on top of a desktop… why…?
- I installed KDE because I wanted to run Kompozer. Just a wild guess, but I assumed that because of the “K”, it’s happy native place would be KDE, right? Wrong. At least about the “happy” part. The insert -> form menu crashes the app every single time. I reinstalled with ubuntu, installed Kompozer, and it works perfectly.
- When I put a data CD into KDE, it pops up an empty window.. it sees the disk, but fails to mount it. Just opens a nice empty window for me, showing me where the binaries would have been had it been successful in opening the CD. Doesn’t show up under /media* either. Ubuntu, on the other hand, mounted it flawlessly.
- Stupid K menu. I don’t want to click a back arrow to go back to the root menu.

There’s more, believe me. And yeah, I know, it’s all customizable I’m sure. Buried somewhere deep under a million options and menus. But I do unix stuff all day at work, and the last thing I want to do is come home and fight with a bastardized buggy gaudy bloated version of what I deal with all day. I just want to relax and easily do my thing on an OS that I’m comfortable with. In that respect, for me, KDE 4.x is epic failure.

The KDE approach seems to be that the window manager is an application in and of itself. That people will spend hours enjoying the eye candy of changing the placement of their panel bar, messing with that goofy transparent mini-desktop, and Klicking Kopete from their K menu to Kontact their Komrades about how Kool Kwallet is.

Ugh. Sorry, I’m done.

]]> Comment on KDE 4.3 sucks, too by Andrew http://blog.fealdia.org/2009/09/06/kde-4-3-sucks-too/comment-page-1/#comment-7237 Andrew Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:41:11 +0000 http://blog.fealdia.org/?p=442#comment-7237 I love the way people come on here and try to say "none of it is KDE's fault". Well, you're right, it's not a piece of software's fault that it was not written to work properly. The problem with KDE comes down to the developers. I've been reporting and confirming bugs in KDE every so often since the early 2000s, and their bug database is full of easy-to-reproduce bugs and serious and obvious breakage labelled UNCONFIRMED. Systematically, serious bugs are ignored for years by developers in favor of wishlist items and eye candy. The KDE team obviously can't write a good piece of software. Now I've heard some blame it on C++, that it's just a bad language for writing stable software. But at the end of the day, what it comes down to is that KDE stinks, plain and simple. It has for years and it will probably continue to as long as I'm alive because it's developed and maintained by morons. I love the way people come on here and try to say “none of it is KDE’s fault”. Well, you’re right, it’s not a piece of software’s fault that it was not written to work properly. The problem with KDE comes down to the developers. I’ve been reporting and confirming bugs in KDE every so often since the early 2000s, and their bug database is full of easy-to-reproduce bugs and serious and obvious breakage labelled UNCONFIRMED. Systematically, serious bugs are ignored for years by developers in favor of wishlist items and eye candy.

The KDE team obviously can’t write a good piece of software. Now I’ve heard some blame it on C++, that it’s just a bad language for writing stable software. But at the end of the day, what it comes down to is that KDE stinks, plain and simple. It has for years and it will probably continue to as long as I’m alive because it’s developed and maintained by morons.

]]> Comment on KDE 4.2 sucks by Andrew http://blog.fealdia.org/2009/04/26/kde-42-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-7236 Andrew Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:31:04 +0000 http://blog.fealdia.org/?p=418#comment-7236 The problem with KDE is that the developers stink. If you do report bugs they'll just file them away under "UNCONFIRMED" and move on to adding more eye candy. There are major bugs in the KDE database going back 5 years or more that have showed up in every major release, still marked as "UNCONFIRMED" since no developer has ever taken the time to read them. The problem with KDE is that the developers stink. If you do report bugs they’ll just file them away under “UNCONFIRMED” and move on to adding more eye candy. There are major bugs in the KDE database going back 5 years or more that have showed up in every major release, still marked as “UNCONFIRMED” since no developer has ever taken the time to read them.

]]> Comment on Backing up Gmail on Debian using isync by hoxu http://blog.fealdia.org/2008/08/11/backing-up-gmail-on-debian-using-isync/comment-page-1/#comment-6781 hoxu Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:38:55 +0000 http://blog.fealdia.org/?p=73#comment-6781 Ah, good catch! Fixed, thanks :) Ah, good catch! Fixed, thanks :)

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