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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:11 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
KDE 4, even with the desktop eyecandy, if _lighter_ on resources than KDE 3 was. So you have your cake and eat it too. The problem with Vista's eyecandy (and Compiz) is that is comes at the expense of system resources. Not so with KDE 4.
You can thank Trolltech and Qt4 for that amazing development.
Unfortunately, that's because there isn't much there after you strip the eye-candy away... Let us all hope that will still ring true once KDE 4 attains the functional equivalence of KDE 3.
And of course this is what everyone has been bitching about since KDE 4 was foisted upon the distro in spite of all sorts of warnings by users who pleaded with Suse not to make it part of 11. In spite of the organized effort of browbeating objectors into silence by opensuse and KDE developers, (including threatening some with having their posting privileges on these lists revoked) we ARE STILL HAVING THIS CONVERSATION after lo these many months. I expect sometime around release 4.2 KDE4 might approach the richness and robustness of KDE3.5.9. I update my testbed virtual machine periodically, but I've quite frankly lost a great deal of interest. -- ----------JSA--------- Someone stole my tag line, so now I have this rental. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org