It looks that more people are admitting the performance lack... --------------------------------------------------- "alberto-g" (alberto-g@inventati.org) wrote: --------------------------------------------------- [...] One final note: your findings show that performance really seems to have been forgotten. And the saddest part is some people are blind enough not to recognize it. --------------------------------------------------- "Frans Englich" (frans.englich@telia.com) wrote: --------------------------------------------------- FWIW, regarding KControl, I've written a KControl from scratch and it is significantly in startup faster than the old. It is from a technical perspective the same, but is lighter and written for fast startup(it's 500 LOC compared to the current 5000..). KControl will be replaced in KDE 4, the question is whether it will be any of the "ordinary" proposed prototypes, or that meta search thing. Cheers, Frans --------------------------------------------------- "Alexander Neundorf" (neundorf@kde.org) wrote: --------------------------------------------------- Hi Bahram, interesting figures. Just some thoughts: starting konsole took approx. 2.0 seconds with my old K6/200 with KDE 2.x. The transition from KDE 2 to KDE 3.0 slowed KDE as a whole down (I think Qt 3 must be to blame). I think with Qt 4 we have a big opportunity to gain a lot of speed and memory. Qt4 will be split into QtCore and QtGui. maybe we use this to split some kdelibs in a way that some of them only need to link to QtCore and not the whole Qt. An another note, I always had the impression that Suse runs much slower than Slackware (which I am using). Especially Yast is dog slow. At work I'm using KDE 3.1 on a PIII/450 with 128 MB RAM. Runs fast enough, starts (until KDE is loaded) faster than Win2K on a P4/2.0 GHz. KDE takes maybe 30 seconds, konsole maybe 2 or 3, konqy maybe 5. There must be something wrong with your setup (I heard some things about fontconfig...). Maybe try another distro ? Bye Alex P.S. we can always need people willing to work on performance issues -- _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com