Comments on: KDE 4 on Kubuntu – Part II http://blog.phenorbital.co.uk/2009/11/18/kde4-on-kubuntu-part-ii/ Blog of a graduate working in banking IT in London. Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Hawley http://blog.phenorbital.co.uk/2009/11/18/kde4-on-kubuntu-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-120 Chris Hawley Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:55:07 +0000 http://phenorbital.co.uk/?p=131#comment-120 Hmm. Strange. I wonder if it's just not happy running on my machine (Atom 330 dual core), or if Ubuntu have done something. It's certainly not something I've put too much effort into prodding so far, so I may investigate what's going on at some point. Hmm. Strange. I wonder if it’s just not happy running on my machine (Atom 330 dual core), or if Ubuntu have done something.

It’s certainly not something I’ve put too much effort into prodding so far, so I may investigate what’s going on at some point.

]]> By: Antz http://blog.phenorbital.co.uk/2009/11/18/kde4-on-kubuntu-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Antz Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:28:42 +0000 http://phenorbital.co.uk/?p=131#comment-119 I'm using a KDE4.3's Amarok 2.2.0 in GNOME under Fedora 11. Media collection operations are blazingly fast for me, the biggest delay seems to be with the UI itself, with Amarok taking up to a second to respond to clicks in the collection browser. Its wikipedia page display is also slightly buggy, and there are a few bugs in the lyrics plugin and the libnotify plugin (which should be used as it is by far better than the OSD despite being buggy). It uses its own MySQLe nowdays, look under ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/mysqle/ , so does not really have an excuse for being slow. Overall, like the rest of 4.3 that I've tried, it is slowly getting there, but is still a bit beta-ish in terms of bug presence, but at least it avoids Fedora's gstreamer + pulseaudio bugs that still plague the distribution and prevent sensible sound use by gstreamer-using applications. I’m using a KDE4.3′s Amarok 2.2.0 in GNOME under Fedora 11.

Media collection operations are blazingly fast for me, the biggest delay seems to be with the UI itself, with Amarok taking up to a second to respond to clicks in the collection browser. Its wikipedia page display is also slightly buggy, and there are a few bugs in the lyrics plugin and the libnotify plugin (which should be used as it is by far better than the OSD despite being buggy).

It uses its own MySQLe nowdays, look under ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/mysqle/ , so does not really have an excuse for being slow.

Overall, like the rest of 4.3 that I’ve tried, it is slowly getting there, but is still a bit beta-ish in terms of bug presence, but at least it avoids Fedora’s gstreamer + pulseaudio bugs that still plague the distribution and prevent sensible sound use by gstreamer-using applications.

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