After a disaster attempting to 'update' from 9.10 (I should know better), I wiped a hard drive and did a plain vanilla, default install of 10.4 from a CD.
Ever since then, I've had dozens of crashes. They seem to be related to Kopete although I get at least one a day from Firefox. In the meantime, I'm using Pidgin and it appears to be stable.
When I load Kopete, it will start and then immediately crash the first couple of times. The third or forth instance, it will crash, I get a black screen and immediately jump to the KDE login.
The same thing happens about once a day while using Firefox. It does not appear to be web page related as I've had it happen while replying to a GMail message, while looking at Yahoo News and while on another forum site.
This was happening every few minutes until I turned off Nepomuk and Strigi.
I've looked in this forum, a Kubuntu support mailing list and on a KDE list and have seen a lot of complaints about Nepomuk, Strigi and Plasma, but no answers.
Are there any plans for a version of KDE that does NOT have all the gee-whiz BS of plasmoids, Nepomuk, etc? I've yet to see any advantage other than to show off how 'kewl' the coders can make it look.
Suggestions or questions are welcomed. I'm almost ready to rebuild the system with 8.04 so I can have a stable computer.
Ever since then, I've had dozens of crashes. They seem to be related to Kopete although I get at least one a day from Firefox. In the meantime, I'm using Pidgin and it appears to be stable.
When I load Kopete, it will start and then immediately crash the first couple of times. The third or forth instance, it will crash, I get a black screen and immediately jump to the KDE login.
The same thing happens about once a day while using Firefox. It does not appear to be web page related as I've had it happen while replying to a GMail message, while looking at Yahoo News and while on another forum site.
This was happening every few minutes until I turned off Nepomuk and Strigi.
I've looked in this forum, a Kubuntu support mailing list and on a KDE list and have seen a lot of complaints about Nepomuk, Strigi and Plasma, but no answers.
Are there any plans for a version of KDE that does NOT have all the gee-whiz BS of plasmoids, Nepomuk, etc? I've yet to see any advantage other than to show off how 'kewl' the coders can make it look.
Suggestions or questions are welcomed. I'm almost ready to rebuild the system with 8.04 so I can have a stable computer.
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