On Friday 17 April 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In <9bb996600904171438i6459ddf9l66a6a8e66f9ba5ad@mail.gmail.com>, Larry
Stotler wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Rajko M.
wrote: Ranting against eye candy? Please, read this: http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/KDE4 " Performance Issues KDE 4 is the first Free desktop environment to make use of advanced features such as compositing, alpha blending and scalable graphics at the core of the desktop, as opposed to only using a compositing window manager ..."
The compositing manager from my reading is openGL based. Since it's built in to KDE4, I can see why my systems were so sluggish since I have no interest in wasting money on a higher end card.
KDE 4 does not require compositing. If you turn it off, it still looks slicker than KDE 3, but it won't ask other systems to do things they are bad at.
It is not eye candy, it is just the way to use computer efficiently, not as i386 and xyVGA graphic, with higher clock rate.
Actually, it's like Vista's Aero manager, that basically requires a good 3d card to make the desktop work. That's why a lot of people turn off the "Aero Experience" so they can actually use their computer or they replace it with XP.
So, turn off KDE 4's desktop effects. They are not a requirement.
To use KDE4 effectively, I would be forced to upgrade my hardware, when it works just fine under KDE3.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the KDE devs are abandoning older hardware with their shiny new toy.
You are wrong. KDE 4 should preform *better* on old hardware if the eye candy is turned off and it should *still* look better than KDE 3. If that's not your experience, and you are willing to work with the developers, please join them on IRC.
[Ideally, KDE 4 would be smart enough to choose the appropriate level of "eye candy" based on your hardware and then let you tweak it, but I don't think that's ready yet.]
You know what this darn PRE ocupation with EYE Candy is becoming a joke lets get the APPS right FIRST then fanny around with eye candy for cryin out loud or have all the KDE dev suddenly become followers of the MS route eye candy rules OK Yaa! .. Pete . -- Opensuse 10.3 x86_64 (Linux is like a wigwam no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org