On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Patrick Shanahan
* Larry Stotler
[09-13-08 14:54]: KDE4 has been slower than KDE3, unstable,
Please support this argument as I have paid close attention to this list and all the anti KDE4 retoric and have yet to see anyone else agree or propose this, but you. All the statements about KDE4 lend to very much attention to removing glut and making it faster, but you continually write about it being the opposite. Were all the developers efforts for naught or is there a perceptual problem here?
On identical hardware, KDE4 is slower than KDE3. This hardware includes: Celeron DualCore E1200(running @ 3.2Ghz) with 2GB RAM and ATI X300/128MB Thinkpad A22p P3/1Ghz/256MB with ATI Mobility M3(Rage 128 Pro) 8MB. I have repeatedly noticed that KDE4 is sluggish on this thinkpad. I haven't tried KDE4 on my Desktop recently because I have it apart for drive upgrades( and haven't gotten around to finishing it). And before I get more comments about upgrading the RAM in the Thinkpad, the second slot is bad and I'm stuck at 256MB. KDE3 is fine on it as is. Like I have said before, I don't have an 8800GT or X4850 video card. And, I wn't even get into how bad KDE4 is on my Thinkpad 390X P3/500Mhz/512MB with the Neomagic 256 2.5MB VRAM chip. KDE3 is fast, and I can play XviD encoded movies at 1536 bitrate on it just fine, so why KDE4 is so slow is beyond me. I also don't install Compiz or any of the desktop effects either. As for supporting my arguement, I'm starting to get tired of hearing that. KDE4 is slower on my hardware. That, and the bling, it the biggest reason I don't use it. Every time I fire it up, I logoff and go back to KDE3. As for memory usage, I say a 15MB saving at first with KDE4, but when I came back and checked it after about 30 minute, it was using within 2MB of KDE3 and it had been doing nothing but sitting there with Firefox open and the same pages loaded. So, I just haven't really seen the savings there either. Granted, it's not a big deal on my Desktop with 2GB RAM, but this Thinkpad only has 256MB, so if there are savings, I'd like to see the numbers. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org