On 09/05/2015 03:17 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 09/05/2015 07:36 AM, Xen wrote:
I don't know what else, but especially the alt-f2 thing is extremely slow to come down, in the first place. Why should such a dialog take more than no-time to drop down?.
Good question.
Why does it take time for you but no noticeable time for me?
I don't know that is my question I guess. I don't think it is a matter of differing perception here. It is just a regular 4-year old laptop. 4GB ram. 2x1.87 GHz cpu. Nothing special, nothing weird, nothing bad. Old 1.8" SATA HDD. Reportedly, not as fast. Maybe it is a matter of perception, I don't know. But it is definitely not instant with the keypress. It can't be a disk issue because such things must be cached. Maybe it's just a slight delay combined with the animation. The slight delay is there in the first place. If I play around with it (keep pressing it) the delay grows sometimes to more than a second. Maybe you don't place just high demands, I don't know. I just notice it. I also have reference material (just coming from Windows a short while back). Well, I have been using a version of Linux most of the time during the last 8 months (when I had a computer) but the few weeks of Windows have left me with that indelible impression of slowness here. The way pressing alt-F7 from a tty to get back the graphical screen, is instant. Absolutely instant. I have used the Windows win-R, type notepad, enter, for so many years. There is a big difference between what I am doing now. I am trying to do the same with KWrite, and it is at least 3x slower, meaning I have to pause before I go on. I'm not used to that, and nor do I think I can ever get used to that. Usually what happens is that you try to find alternatives like binding a key, but that is a nasty workaround that you ideally don't want to use. You like to be able to use any default system like you're used to. My workflow in Windows was just instant instant instant. Things like Notepad and Putty. I can say alt-tab is also not instant here. Using the default big-thumbnail horizontal switcher of KDE 4. Thumbnails I can't interpret visually ;-). What's the use even. Most of the window switchers are quite useless. The small icons are much too small. The big icons are much too big. And not all icons scale the same; for instance Opera and Quassel don't scale up, but Thunderbird and Console do. The grid is even more useless than the thumbnails. Cover and flip switch are nice but too 'verbal'. Too much movement/visual difference. I have now settled for the "Informative" vertical list without icons for a while. Sure, a simple alt-tab is almost instant, but not quite. The visual impression is that of an outline of a window being drawn including fill, and then that drawn outline being faded in. Title and buttons are having a fade-in here. The window is instant but the text and buttons are not, which is a visual effect of having to wait. It is not handled by KWin's "Fade" apparently. Perhaps it is subtle but it makes a large difference in how you perceive the system responds to you. The plasma 5 window switcher (the vertical one) is also quite useless btw. You know what I'd say to myself? Maybe you shouldn't be using a computer in the first place. Maybe you should stop using a computer for a while. Stay away from it for a while. If I'd then speak of designer incompentence, I'd say: you can't blame the developers for your life being a mess. ;-). Maybe I should indeed just stay away from computers. Answer: that would be very right for you. Format the entire hard drive, put Windows back on it, and send it back to where it came from. Right now. But I'd lose all the software! You can rebuild it. Then I wouldn't need to blame anyone anymore for my experiences. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org