On Wednesday 03 of February 2010, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2010-02-03 21:59, Boris Epstein wrote:
Hi all,
I've got an OpenSuSE 11.1 box on which I used to log in under KDE 4 for quite some time. Now I tried GNOME... and some things, like Yast2, for instance, look drastically different.
Why would that be? Is there a good rationale (or any rationale, for that matter) behind that practice?
KDE and GNOME have different ideas on what a good desktop looks like. And applications that try to integrate well with both of the desktops so that they do not look out of the place then also have to look differently as a consequence.
By the way, GNOME seems to be more responsive than KDE 4 though there are still some issues to be worked out. Does anybody else feel that way - or is it just me?
Yes, I do. It has always been so, specially on slower machines. It probably has to do with kde being made with C++, and gnome with plain C. I understand that much work has gone into the C++ compiler optimization, precisely because of this problem.
Please do not spread these myths. The performance depends on the setup and usage. Just like you find GNOME/Gtk do better than KDE/Qt there can be found enough people who'd swear GNOME/Gtk is too slow for them and KDE/Qt just flies. The difference between C and C++ or the quality of the compiler is usually also not the deciding factor (for example get somewhat older nvidia drivers and watch KDE crawl on some systems, or get [also somewhat older I believe] Gtk file open dialog and watch it crawl while opening /usr/bin). -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org