jaunty the worst ever

[anthony baldwin]

Mike McGinn wrote:
> I just upgraded to jaunty from intrepid on my Dell Inspiron Laptop with 4 Gig 
> of memory and a 320G hard drive. This is the buggiest KDE distribution I have 
> ever used - I have not seen such problems with updating display rectangles 
> since Windows 3.0. I thought the version of KDE shipped with Intrepid was not 
> ready for prime time - I was amazed that Jaunty is actually worse.
> 
> Kmail is another set of issues. With 5+ years of contacts and email stored, as 
> well as about 200 filters on incoming mail, switching mail clients is not a 
> possibility. One would think Kmail would not have errors at this late state 
> rendering text in the messages window. One would also think that the people 
> who design Kmail would have learned to put the settings for the mail headers 
> window where they could be found. Also, I would think that the folders window 
> could remember what columns I want displayed between settings. In Intrepid 
> Kmail could not remember the window size I wanted, now it remembers the window 
> size but forgets a bunch of other stuff. LAY OFF THE DRUGS GUYS!
> 
> So, since Kubuntu seems to be getting incrementally worse instead of improving 
> it is time to ignore all the hype and start looking for a distro where they 
> actually do testing before release.
> 
> Jaunty Jackalope my Irish Ass! More like Jaunty Jackass.
> 

What do you expect?
KDE sucks.
Try a better wm, like dwm, xmonad, ion3.
Or maybe fluxbox or openbox.
/tony

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