On Saturday 13 February 2010 2:11:47 am C wrote:
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 07:54, David C. Rankin
wrote: Here is where I honestly disagree. I have kde3 and kde4 on everything from my indestructible Abit KT7 w/Athlon T-bird 800, to boxes with screaming phenom processors. In every single case kde3 is crisp and responsive while on the older boxes even w/o dt-effect, kde4 is just much slower. I can't say slower from a processing standpoint, because on the mid machines you can still compile apps 4 times as fast as on the old box, but the desktop is sluggish. menu delay, click ... wait.. response type issues. I'll have to think up a meaningful metric or two to test and get some data so we can have some data, but in my personal experience 3 on older boxes is the only thing to use.
You may be the victim of your own configuration in this case David. It is relatively well known (and been mentioned a lot on the mailing list here) that if you have both KDE3 with QT3 and KDE4 with QT4installed side by side, then KDE4 will suffer major performance issues as you describe. If you run KDE4 on a system that does not have any QT3 stuff installed, then KDE4 is very fast, very smooth etc and does not (at least for me and all the installs I'm supporting) exhibit any random application crashes... ie it's rock solid.
C.
I like how KDE 4.4 has turned out and I can also agree that if you just have KDE4 and QT4 then the system is very stable, I have a couple of problems with it but nothing that can't be worked with. The only program that I have seen crash is Dolphin but that was happening even in 4.3, there is a bug report open in KDE's bugzilla, and the fact that Strigi was killed in the update from 4.3.5 to 4.4 so I can not say anything on the improvements with Strigi in this version.