All configs on KDE4 are difficult. Nowhere near as easy as 3. However, since I limit my KDE4 usage, I don't know what is what and honestly I just don't have the time to work on it.
I suspect that you were looking at KDE 4.0 or 4.1. When you get the chance to play with KDE 4.4 (or later) then _please_ either start a thread on the difficulties and CC me, or just write to me directly. Alternatively, you could file the bus yourself here: http://bugs.kde.org Thanks!
If you are loading Qt3 and Qt4 libraries, then yes, it is slower than Qt3 alone. However, for systems running only Qt4 libraries, KDE 4 is much more responsive than KDE 3. In fact, that was a specific design goal for Qt4. I run it on older hardware, and the difference (improvement) is noticable.
Define older. I have a Thinkpad 390X with a P3/500 and a 2.5MB VRAM Neomagic chip. No way I would even try KDE 4 on that. My Thinkpad A22m(P3/1Ghz) and X21's(P3/700) have ATI Mobility M3s. KDE4 was very unresponsive on them. Side by side with my 2 X21s and you see I world of difference in speed.
I suspect tht you may have been loading Qt3 libraries as well. On my 2006-era Dell Inspiron (2 GB RAM, some slow dual-core Intel processor) KDE 4 is very responsive. Same on most other machines that I've tried, including the wife's old AMD Duron that is a pig.
Which Qt3 applications do you still use? I may be able to make suggestions.
Very few. KOffice the most. I use Firefox and would use gnome due to the gtk libs, but I really despise gnome.....
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