Re: [opensuse] openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 38

Mark Misulich wrote:

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Larry Stotler [09-13-08 14:54]:

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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?

Somehow the words come to mind, "dead horse".

Hi, I put both kde4.1 and 3.5 on my old laptop that I use for playing around with various systems, at the same time I first installed Opensuse 11.0. I tried each of them out to see how they and 11.0 worked. The computer is a Dell Inspiron 5000 with a PIII 600 and 512 mb ram. When I ran 3.5 on the computer everything ran smooth. When I ran the 4.1 computer started to chug, sometimes freezing and unfreezing when I tried to operate the same programs in kde 4.1 as I ran in kde 3.5 . Maybe there is something more technical involved, but I took it that kde 4.1 required more ram to operate and ran slower on my computer. It seemed similar to the difference in the way that Vista and Suse run on the computer I am using at the moment, Vista runs way slower.

Mark

FWIW, I tried KDE 4 on a test computer a while ago, and I couldn't get it off that computer fast enough. While it was an earlier version, if it was any indication of the future of KDE, I want out. KDE 4 will require a considerable improvement before it will see use on my computers. My requirements include all the functionality that's currently in 3.5x and no eye candy crap. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org