David C. Rankin wrote:
On Friday 10 July 2009 06:20:15 am Rodney Baker wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:03:59 David C. Rankin wrote:
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
choices...).
It seems to me that KDE + Desktop Effects (whether internal or via compiz)
instead of the KDE4 DE. I'll keep playing with it.
Don't get me wrong, the KDE4 setup is "usable", but the speed difference between it and KDE3 is night and day. On my laptop CPU usage isn't an issue. With the desktop running and normal browsing, email, word processor, etc. CPU usage never exceeds 15-18%. Stressing the desktop by spinning the desktop round-and-round in the cylinder never pushes CPU use over 40% and then it immediately drops back to the 10% range when I let go.
I still have plenty of CPU and RAM to go around, something is just slow. Popping back to kde3 and it's like it's turbo-charged. I'll keep looking at it. Is there some type of profiler I can run that would likely show anything?
Am using KDE4 on my PC and haven't really noticed any real hit in speed, but it IS a reasonable machine (quad core...) BUT have just upgraded my wifes P4 approx 2G, 512MB, (yeah, I know, I spoil her!! :-) ) from 11.0 to 11.1, and initially I installed KDE4, and then updated to 4.2.3 - dog slow, basically unusable. So thought I would give gnome a run.... to my surprise, it wasn't a great deal better! Have just installed KDE3 back on it, and again it is quite usable. So the comparison did surprise me, particularly the Gnome experience. John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org