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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: kde4 speed tips - got any?
From:       Andrew Mason <slackmase2 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-07-12 10:54:17
Message-ID: 99cd336d0907120352w6815c8actdc7bee44499a70ce () mail ! gmail ! com
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First of all, I know the original post sounded a bit trollish but I
think it was genuine. I have 2 Nvidia cards 8400,5200, 2 Intel cards
(X3100 and X4500 ) and an AMD (something purchased about 1 year ago)
and although KDE 4 isn't slow, it's not "as fast / snappy as kde3" on
any of those setups. So while this still may be a graphics driver
issue, I don't know that many people, at least at the moment , will
have KDE4 instance as responsive as KDE3 still is. Resizing panels in
amarok and kmail are pretty  obvious examples of this.

I also find both Krunner, konqueror and kmail having a little pause in
the middle of text entry. This occurs for me on all of my systems,
less so on the 4.3beta but its still present. I think this may suggest
that some of these applications maybe waiting on disk access in areas
where they could possibly do this asynchronously. While the operation
wouldn't be faster it would 'feel' faster.

On 7/12/09, Michael Howell <mhowell123@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 09 July 2009 20:37:37 David C. Rankin wrote:
>> Listmates,
>>
>> 	After 2 months working with kde 4.3 beta 2, one thing that is apparent is
>> that it feels slow compared to kde3. Menu crispness, start time, etc. are
>> all very sluggish compared to kde3. I rarely use kde3 anymore, but when I
>> do start kde3, I'm amazed at how fast it is compared to kde4.
> Most of the suggestions are right (raster graphics, removing desktop
> effects).
> You may also try ensuring that you aren't using KDE3 apps under KDE4, which
> is
> really a bad idea, anyway.
>
>> 	This isn't because my laptop is just slow. AMD Turion-58, 4G of RAM, SATA
>> II drive, the hardware should be fine. Start time on kde3 on this box is
>> just about 7 seconds (login to desktop loaded). KDE4 is well over 25
>> seconds to accomplish the same task.
> This shouldn't be a problem. Why can't KDE4 be made to be as fast as KDE3?
> Any
> technical reasons?
>
> --
> Please don't send HTML mail. If you forward mail, please remove the garbage.
> Thanks!
>
> Michael Howell
> mhowell123@gmail.com
>
>
 
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