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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Why is KDE so _slow_?
From:       Javier Marcet <jmarcet () pobox ! com>
Date:       2002-11-14 11:27:16
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* Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <duncan@kde.org> [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, and I 
>dont know why, I have tried to tune it, but it is just slow (being a P4 with 
>ton of RAM)
>My home Athlon is a more conservative system, but using gentoo, kde is very 
>fast!

From 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 -.


-- 
Javier Marcet <jmarcet@pobox.com>

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