Rajko M. wrote:
... Ranting against eye candy?
Please, read this: http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/KDE4 " Performance Issues KDE 4 is the first Free desktop environment to make use of advanced features such as compositing, alpha blending and scalable graphics at the core of the desktop, as opposed to only using a compositing window manager ..."
It is not eye candy, it is just the way to use computer efficiently, not as i386 and xyVGA graphic, with higher clock rate.
If you are about efficiency and better use of gear that you paid for then you will greet that, instead of repeating eye candy, eye candy until repeat key breaks.
... Let me know if I'm wrong?
This is the first sound, rational explanation I have heard that explains clearly what the value of the current focus of KDE4 will be to the user, above and beyond someone's view of aesthetics and/or proper desktop usage paradigms. (May be a function of my limited time and ability to track this single issue, but still, it is something I am glad to have seen). However, it does raise a couple of questions. The first is, "will (most) all of older systems be able to use KDE4 without a significant performance penalty?" and the second is "Why can't or won't the KDE team encourage and enable more people to stay with KDE3 until KDE4 is further along?" That way, those who choose to slog through implementation issues for KDE4 will at least be aware of the alternatives upfront, and those who want to wait until the "magnum opus" is nearly complete to adopt it, can do so easily, instead of having to give a "Vulcan" wave to their desktops in order to get back to what will work the best for many users, at least for now? My thought now is that KDE3 should be packaged as "recommended as suitable for everyone" (and have at least security patches available) until a wider community has tried, and switched, to KDE4. I would also then like to see KDE4 as a choice on install, but with a clear message that real benefit will only happen for users with new and more powerful machines, and that except for wanting to try to tweak more out of such hardware, users should only use KDE4 now if they want to participate in its further development and testing. It's too late for 11.1, but why not that approach for 11.2? I think that approach would have made a lot less KDE users unhappy, while still netting a wide enough deployed base to get meaningful feedback from beyond the Team's ability to test, which I read was one of the reasons they wanted to push it out to a wider base now. Likewise, please correct me if this doesn't make sense for some reason I am failing to see. In any case, thanks for throwing a bright light into the midst of the heat, Rajko. -- Dan Goodman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org