Re: kontact & xfce

On Monday 21 December 2009 07:00:31 Werner Joss wrote:
> I'm currently poking around with xfce and kde 4 apps, which works so far
>  quite good, but kontact (from kde 4.3.4) shows a weird behaviour:
> upon first start, I get the following:
> 
> <unknown program name>(1518)/: Communication problem with  "kontact" , it
> probably crashed.
> Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not
>  receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not
>  send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply
>  timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." "
> 
> then, on 2nd try, there is a warning message box which says: kontact seems
>  to be running already, start anyway ?
> - confirm with yes: kontact starts finally, but always shows a rotating
>  mouse cursor.
> if I then quit kontact and restart again, all seems to be normal.
> 
> can anyone here confirm this/give any hints on how to improve the situation
>  ?


Werner, my info may be out of date, but if I understand correctly, if you run 
KDE apps under xfce or gnome, the KDE libs are loaded into memory in addition 
to any gnome or xfce apps.  So you get no performance benefit from running xfce 
if you are are going to use KDE apps.  In fact, you may be taxing your system 
more than just running KDE.

Gnome vs. KDE is a matter of preference, but in my experience, people run xfce 
because it is lighter weight.  That's my gripe against xfce.  You can't do 
much with its native apps, (e.g. thunar won't browse smb shares) so you have 
to use gnome or KDE apps.  At that point you are running both KDE and xfce, 
instead of just xfce, so you are actually working against your purpose.

That's the way it worked pre-KDE 4,  I don't know if this still applies with 
KDE 4.


-- 
Art Alexion