On Sunday 29 April 2012 13:10:14 Martin Gr��lin wrote: > > FF&TB are slow, ugly + bloated, so I won't use them (anymore). > > out of curiosity: which browser are you using then? I am not aware of any > browser which does not come with a database. I use chromium, which does not depend on any database. > > > Nobody complains that Amarok uses an embedded MySQL. > > > > amarok-trinity uses libsqlite3, not mysql. > > fair enough, you know what I had to do when using Amarok 1.4? I had to > install MySQL because Amarok was unable to handle my music collection with > sqlite. no problems here (maybe my music collection is just not large enough :) > > then came the point where I decided to have my $HOME as a symlink to a > > directory on another physical partition. > > this worked ok for kde3/trinity/icewm/e17... but not for kde4: immediate, > > unrecoverable akonadi crash. > > just ridiculous. > > If you move sockets around, you should know what you do. Given that it's a > bad idea to use symlink if you could use a loop mount which would have > worked. ok, will try that, at some point. > That's I'm sorry a user issue. > > > at that point, I gave up on kde (which was my favourite desktop until > > then from the 1.4.x days). > > Please see: you complain about a PIM suit which has nothing to do with the > "desktop". You could just have continued to use the KDE desktop with other > software for PIM. sure, and in fact, this is what most linux users I know personally, did: switch to TB or something else, or even abandon kde as a whole, as I did. > instead of quanta+ you can use kdevelop with php support. this is not (yet) available for debian, AFAIK. > > or a fast, simple office suite (koffice 1.6.3) which does just > > what I need without beeing dead slow or even corrupt my data (which > > koffice 2.x has done more than once). > > You might have missed the news: there is no Koffice 2.x any more. The > community forked and there is now Calligra which I have heard works fine. I'm aware of this, didn't try so far, however, after the horrible koffice 2.x experience... > But feel free to continue using KOffice 1.x which to my knowledge does not > even support ODF. it does. not to all recent specs, but enough for my use cases. I can read my files with OO/LO or even MSoffice w.o. problems. Werner