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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Why is KDE so _slow_?
From:       Edoardo Causarano <curious.corn () katamail ! com>
Date:       2002-11-14 21:16:09
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On Thursday 14 November 2002 12:27, Javier Marcet wrote:
> * 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 -.

Give up the eye-candy, you must be joking! ;-) Anyway, I've been playing with 
an G4 OsX and man does it look cool; so please don't give up on the graphic 
impact or you'll alienate quite an amount of users...

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