On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 13:23, Larry Stotler
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:23 PM, James Knott
wrote: It strikes me that the people driving KDE 4 are more interested in "Gee Whiz" features, than function. I watched a KDE 4 demo last year and I couldn't believe what was being promoted could be considered an improvement. Judging from what I've been reading here, I wasn't far off the mark.
Keep in mind that the openSUSE KDE devs are just a part of the overall KDE team. While I have also questioned the direction of KDE4, it seems that we will be stuck with it and with trying to get the useful KDE3 features added in with all the new "Mac/Vista" "features". I do think that some of the devs haven't used a Pentium 3 system in a long time and don't realize how slow KDE4 is without the newer CPUs and graphics cards. It's almost the way Macs went. You have to have a specific card for Quartz Extreme and AGP for Core Image(which is a technical limitation of the PCI bus anyway).
My 2 laptops are a Thinkpad A22p P3/1Ghz/256MB(has a bad RAM slot, but would max at 512MB) and a Thinkpad X21 P3/700Mhz/384MB(Max RAM). The A22p has a Rage 128 based video chip and the X21 has a Mobility chip in it.
You can't expect the latest software to keep on running on older machines forever. Maybe keeping 3.5 on those machines is the best idea? I don't think that Windows Vista or Mac OS X will run "great" on either of those machines... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org