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View Poll Results: Should Pat just drop KDE?
Yes 58 22.92%
No 154 60.87%
Undecided or don't care 41 16.21%
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Old 10-18-2019, 03:31 AM   #211
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Desktop icons or not, is simply a preference - there is no right/wrong so far as they are concerned. If I were to argue for them, I'd say that they are a "use of the space", which is unused if they are not present.

At home, I find no use for them, at work I have quite a few recent things I'm working on and links to network shares, organised on the desktop for convenience.

Back on topic - I personally don't think Slackware should drop KDE, but it is a poll after all, gauging the opinions of users - but ultimately it's up to the Slackware project leader.
 
Old 10-18-2019, 11:49 AM   #212
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Why, what's wrong with Qt? I've always thought it was a great toolkit.

Too many major version bumps for my liking, but all toolkits seem to be guilty of this lately. At least for developers Qt makes it much easier to port software to the latest major version than GTK... and it doesn't do things like unapologetically break A{P,B}I in the middle of a major version run...
Oh, nothing is wrong with Qt, per se, really, I use it myself. (Although it seems to currently have a regression (that might actually be quite old) that makes it a pain to use with graphic tablets because the stylus move events aren't triggering window 'on enter' and 'on leave' events, making opentoonz more awkward to use than it should be)
It's just that both are such huge packages, that's all. I like both KDE and Qt, but them being married has given me grief before.
 
Old 10-18-2019, 03:50 PM   #213
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Drop it.

The only distro that ships usable KDE is openSUSE (Leap or Tumbleweed). And even there this KIO thing is an utter crap.



Cheers.
 
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Old 10-18-2019, 04:44 PM   #214
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Drop it.

The only distro that ships usable KDE is openSUSE (Leap or Tumbleweed). And even there this KIO thing is an utter crap.

Cheers.
Hmmm Plasma5 is quite usable for me. It is my daily driver. And remember, using KDE is not mandatory. I will still respect you if you use XFCE.
 
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Old 10-18-2019, 08:02 PM   #215
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i did not realize how big Linux got over the years, check this, this is slackware64-current without kde, without kernel source and it still weighs in at 1500 M
Great thanks. Seems you are just infinite source of knowledge. I refer to scrot. Superb.
 
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Old 10-18-2019, 10:50 PM   #216
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You can do that with KDE too. I believe it's called the "Icons-only task manager" instead of the regular task manager. Cinnamon 4 also has it. Not sure about other DEs. I prefer it like that too.
Sweet! I'll have to look into that once I get KDE working (one of the joys of trying to stick with mostly 14.2, but upgrading portions of the graphics stack to support newer video cards -- I always seem to break some things, but I'm glad Slackware gives me the ability to do that).
 
Old 10-19-2019, 12:11 AM   #217
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Question Who is Pat?

Pat who?
 
Old 10-19-2019, 12:16 AM   #218
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Pat who?
Google "Slackware"

And maybe, just maybe, look at the title of the forum before you post again.
 
Old 10-19-2019, 01:38 AM   #219
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Google "Slackware"

And maybe, just maybe, look at the title of the forum before you post again.
Maybe it just emphasize that it is not polite to refer to Slackware maintainer in such 'friendly' way in public.
 
Old 10-19-2019, 02:05 AM   #220
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Maybe it just emphasize that it is not polite to refer to Slackware maintainer in such 'friendly' way in public.
I believe that Mr. Hameleers is on a first-name basis with Mr. Volkerding.
 
Old 10-19-2019, 03:41 AM   #221
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Mr. Cranium is probably right.
 
Old 10-19-2019, 04:17 AM   #222
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Google "Slackware"

And maybe, just maybe, look at the title of the forum before you post again.
People are not obliged to know who "Pat" is.. Don't be rude.
 
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Old 10-19-2019, 04:36 AM   #223
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You can do that with KDE too. I believe it's called the "Icons-only task manager" instead of the regular task manager. Cinnamon 4 also has it. Not sure about other DEs. I prefer it like that too.
Yes, I use it.
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Old 10-19-2019, 05:20 AM   #224
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Pat who?
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Maybe it just emphasize that it is not polite to refer to Slackware maintainer in such 'friendly' way in public.
BDFL, The Man, Patrick, Pat, PV, I believe all these are acceptable. I certainly feel like I know him. We have the same taste in OSs, we certainly have the same taste in beer, though he knows a little more about fishing.
 
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Old 10-19-2019, 05:52 AM   #225
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Johnson is also acceptable. It also allows the occasional cryptic reference.
From the -current ChangeLog
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Sun Jun 30 22:45:12 UTC 2019
...
/mesa-19.1.1-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Don't build the swr Gallium driver on IA32 - it leads to an illegal
instruction startup crash with CPUs that lack AVX support.
Thanks to Jefferson and Johnson.
I rather liked that.
 
  


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