From kde-devel Thu Nov 14 11:27:16 2002 From: Javier Marcet Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:27:16 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Why is KDE so _slow_? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=103727318012598 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z" --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett [021114 13:09]: >> I love KDE more than the next guy, but lately the speed of things has >> really been starting to get on my nerves. >> First up I have a 1.2Ghz Duron box, with 512MB of RAM, Running RedHat >> 8.0 - Basically something that is more than sufficient for desktop use. >I have a system running redhat & kde at my university and *it is* slow, an= d I=20 >dont know why, I have tried to tune it, but it is just slow (being a P4 wi= th=20 >ton of RAM) >My home Athlon is a more conservative system, but using gentoo, kde is ver= y=20 >fast! =46rom my experience it largely depends on not only _good_ optimization, both of qt and kde, but also on the GUI style you use. I've been using Keramik for a while, without silly animations but with many extra whistles which come with that style. After some time I missed some speed, so I enabled again all my extra CFLAGS at compile time... It improved but it was not enough. Then I switched to Light-3rd Revision GUI style, with a nice color setup and with BII window decoration. now, it's _faaast_. The difference in loading anything, from konqueror, to KDevelop or whatever is _amazing_. Konqueror loads instantly, with no delay, formerly it took a few seconds. I haven't done actual tests, but I can notice it. I can work comfortably with it now. This is on Athlon-XP 1800+ with 384MB RAM, the only thing which I should upgrade - the mem -. --=20 Javier Marcet --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAj3TiJMACgkQx/ptJkB7frxLoACfa6WB9/l6AJQ8AdeRKgBYM58g vbIAni/ZwIVdAfbYtibRfYoN0I3wDl+e =8GUB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z-- >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<