-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2008-12-04 at 17:27 -0500, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
In a way we are. Not all of us want all the new "pretty graphics/desktop". Perhaps we just want some new features, the security updates, and all the bugfixes. I remember some time ago when the desktop had a slider to let us choose how much complexity we wanted, against used resources (cpu mostly). That would be fine for kde4.
It's still available, but not installed by default. It's called KPersonalizer. I put in a request to get it turned on in 11.1, but it hasn't been ported to KDE4 yet(imagine that.....). Hopefully it will be ported.
And that's the main problem with kde4, that quite some applications have not been ported.
When you need new hardware because your two year old computer is slow as a tortoise with vista... then I would think that they have put bloat on purpose in order to sell hardware. I'd hate to see the same in Linux, when one of the promotional points of Linux for years has been making old hardware usable.
And it still is. And, IF KDE4 finally delivers on it's claims by 4.3 or whenever, then it may be faster than KDE3. But that will mean turning off the eyecandy, which some people seem to require. Everyone's trying to out Mac Mac OS X. Kinda pointless in my opinion.
If eyecandy can be turned on/off, then that would be perfect. If I have a computer with lots of power, I can showoff. If not, I prefer to reserve the power for the applications that /need/ more power. And in this way, we can postpone buying new hardware till we want or can. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkk4X1AACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Vd9wCeKuMqqF0Ii9+GYqurQMWtJciV 70oAoIq1jJ3Wu/PbncsEjx7HdAgtq1TX =+5ZV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org