Am Freitag, 10. Juli 2009 05:33:59 schrieb David C. Rankin:
Listmates,
After 2 months working with kde 4.3 beta 2, one thing that is apparent is that it feels slow compared to kde3. Menu crispness, start time, etc. are all very sluggish compared to kde3. I rarely use kde3 anymore, but when I do start kde3, I'm amazed at how fast it is compared to kde4.
This isn't because my laptop is just slow. AMD Turion-58, 4G of RAM, SATA II drive, the hardware should be fine. Start time on kde3 on this box is just about 7 seconds (login to desktop loaded). KDE4 is well over 25 seconds to accomplish the same task.
Are there any tips for speeding kde4 up? We are now at 4.2.96 from factory x86_64. Sven, etc. do you see any speed improvements for kde4 coming?
Just a quick shot, since I got to leavve in a minute. My experience is that nepomuk is one app that causes "slowness", so disabling it might help. It will be off by default for 11.2 for that reason. However the biggest improvement I got, and in my case KDE4 is up to speed with KDE3 since then, was that NVIDIA improved their graphics driver. There is now hardly any noticeable response difference with my 7600 GS/GT, not sure which one I have. On my netbook, with intel, it was really slow with effects enabled and 11.1. There were improvements with 11.2, since the intel driver is in flux and apparently improving if one has the right combo of kernel+xorg+driver. KDE4 without effects works nicely on the netbook as well. So in my experience, if one has enabled desktop effects, KDE4's speed highly depends on the quality of the graphics driver. If there is none available for ones graphics board, one has to live with the kde3 standard graphics effects, i.e. none. For loading speed, some plasmoids take time to initialise and if you click on the splashscreen, you see that the desktop is actually available a long time before the splash fades away. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org