Do we need Win95/98/Me support?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Kiith-Sa" <42 at theanswer.com> wrote in message 
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>
> Disable akonadi: alt+f2, start typing akonadi, akonadi configuration menu 
> will appear, click it, go to akonadi server configuration tab, press stop 
> at the bottom right. Also uncheck Use internal MYsQL server. Notification 
> will show that akonadi has been stopped.
>
> Disable Semantic Desktop:
> 1)System Settings -> Desktop Search -> Basic Settings, untick Nepomuk and 
> Strigi
>
> 2)System Settings -> Desktop Search -> Desktop Query, untick "Index files 
> on removable media" and untick every folder under "Customise index 
> folders."
> 3)System Settings -> Desktop Search -> Backup, set "Backup frequency" to 
> Disable
>
> Disable Notifications:
> a: System Settings -> Application and System Notifications -> Manage 
> Notifications, untick all the "Show me a message in a popup" under 
> "Desktop Search" and Semantic Desktop"
>

Ahh, thanks. Strigi was already off, and I couldn't find "Desktop Search -> 
Desktop Query" or "Desktop Search -> Backup", but everything else was on and 
I turned them off. We'll see how it goes.

>
> Note that KDE on Ubuntu has historically been fucked up.
> I've had much better experience on OpenSuse.
> (not sure why, but a lot of KDE people hate Kubuntu for
> giving KDE bad credit)
>

Interesting, I didn't know.

> I'm currently using Kubuntu 11.10 with KDE 4.7 though, and haven't
> encountered any bugs - except social desktop, which I disabled
> (Kubuntu/KDE4.6 wasn't usable - OpenSuse was)
>
> That said, KDE 4.8 is going to be released in 2 days, and it's mostly
> bugfixes and optimizations. So if you try KDE4 again, I recommend waiting
> for the next round of distros with 4.8 .
>
> KDE plans for 4.9 is also bugfixes, while 5.0 (don't panic) should be a 
> refactor
> without breaking user interface - but they plan to clean up the APIs (as 
> opposed to 4.0 - where they rewrote everything from scratch).
>

Yea, bugs aside, I actually don't really like the UI much anyway. For 
example, the notification system is not really great and is overused anyway 
(Example: Extract an archive in dolphin, the new directory for it appears, 
"Oh, ok, great, that was fast", go about your own business, a minute later 
see a message saying that only *NOW* has it actually finished extracting.)

>
> I'm not sure if Trinity has enough devs to do anything but maintain KDE3 
> comptatibility - MATE seems more promising to me (I liked Gnome 2 even 
> though
> I'm converted to KDE now).

Haven't heard of MATE, I'll look into it.