Comment Re:Total Commander (Score 1) 951
Cheers,
RM
As far as I can tell, "Akonadi" = "You must have MySQL installed or else KDE is completely unusable. Oops, sorry if you already had a running MySQL system set up --we're going to take it over now."
Akonadi also has the excellent feature of refusing to run just after you import all your contacts into KAddressBook. Usually, the only fix is to completely nuke Akonadi and Kontact, reinstall, and start all over.
Fun times.
Cheers,
RM
Thats why the repubs want to cut all funding for PBS.
FIFY
Cheers,
RM
They can keep the Fantasy stuff. I just want them to get rid of the rasslin.
This. As a fan of both Sci-Fi, Fantasy and wrasslin, when they started showing the ECW show my first thought was, "What the frak are they thinking!" And it's still what I think about wrasslin on a Sci-FI channel. They don't mix.
Once I win the lotto, I'd like to buy the Syfy channel, rename it back to Sci-Fi, and take them hack to their roots. And send the wrasslin back to Spike.
Cheers,
RM
Here's what's going on:
1. Akonadi -
They still don't have the implementation right. My latest install is less than 3 months old, I finally get it to where is loads on boot. This is the first time since KDE 4.0. Now, I boot the box, the cpu is maxed. Kill -9 Akonadi, kill -9 the indexer, kill -9 a few other related services, and guess what, no fscking contacts. Restart Kontact. Rinse-repeat until Akonadi decides it wants to cooperate.
I can't trust Kontact to safeguard my contacts anymore. The idea of Kontact is great! It really is a great PIM. But they need to get far, far away from that piece of shit Akonadi. Until they do, or make it bulletproof, Kontact is useless. And that's a real shame.
Cheers,
RM
My problem with the ribbon is that its in the way. Most of us are working most of the time on documents we intend to print portrait on 8x11 paper when we use Office software. The trend as of late is to monitors that are 16x9 or 16x10 aspect. That is not conducive for portrait work in the first place, its a real PITA when you start sucking up the remaining vertical space for your 200px think ribbon.
Ribbon might have been a good idea if it was done vertical up the side rather then along the top.
There's a very easy fix for the portrait problem you describe. I took my 16x10 monitor and rotated it 90 degrees. Now I can see the entire 8x11 page on one screen. My Office Manager has one 16x10 in landscape mode for excel, and one in portrait mode for word.
And what makes it even easier, most monitors (and video cards) come with a driver plugin to switch between portrait/landscape modes with a mouseclick.
Cheers,
RM
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight