On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
KDE 4 does not require compositing. If you turn it off, it still looks slicker than KDE 3, but it won't ask other systems to do things they are bad at.
So how do you turn it off?
You are wrong. KDE 4 should preform *better* on old hardware if the eye candy is turned off and it should *still* look better than KDE 3. If that's not your experience, and you are willing to work with the developers, please join them on IRC.
2 problems with that - I don't use IRC and really don't have the time to devote to it, and the second is that I find KDE3 is more than adequate for my needs. Like I said to Anders a while back - Compelling reasons. KDE4 has shown zero benefit over KDE3 so far. That may change, and hopefully will.
[Ideally, KDE 4 would be smart enough to choose the appropriate level of "eye candy" based on your hardware and then let you tweak it, but I don't think that's ready yet.]
Which is why I asked for KPersonalizer or something similar to be ported so I don't have to fool with a bunch of stuff to turn it off. Honestly, I didn't pick KDE as my desktop because of how it looks. I picked it because it works the way I do. It was the closest Linux desktop to OS/2's Workplace shell, and it just plain worked. I'm not against the devs wanted to do new stuff and add a lot of eye candy if that's what THEY are into. I just want an easy way to turn it off IF I decide that KDE4 is ready for me. Not asking for the world here. I also don't agree with that dev who says that we shouldn't have the current desktop. Honestly, who is he to dictate to me how I use my computer? If he thinks he's got a better way for him, fine. Just don't force your ideas on me. Give me a choice so that if your way doesn't work for me(which it doesn't), I don't have to deal with it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org