-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2010-02-04 at 11:58 +0100, Lubos Lunak wrote:
On Wednesday 03 of February 2010, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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).
It is not a myth. Same machine, both kde and gnome installed since about SuSE 5.3, several machines. Gnome was a bit faster on all cases, specially on slow machines with little memory, perhaps simply because gnome had a smaller footprint. Not really gnome or kde, but the apps I used on top, like staroffice, netscape, etc. And xfce was faster than both. In my case, it is not a myth, but what I experienced. It may be that my newer machine behaves differently, I don't know yet. Others may have different experiences, but that doesn't make mine "a myth" :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktrMwUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9USsQCfUbqZiqaJ5e1PeX02fhPR0EzL 5dsAn2wgcKOeHATQ1xAaqN8UWFnmkBcw =ZL63 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org