Well I am running KDE 3.1 on a 1gig PIII 256meg ram notebook.  I can turn all 
the effects on and the system is still lightening.

I really don't think that KDE should limit itself to the lowest common 
denominator.  Also as others have said previously it can run fine on lesser 
machines.  

I will add that KDE 3.0 rans faster for me that KDE 2.2.  I am sure that 
improvements in the Kernel and compiler have something to do with this, but 
the system is still faster than what the user running KDE 2.2 a year ago 
would experience.

KDE 3.1 is faster than 3.0, so it looks like things are actually improving 
with regard to speed.

I encourage KDE to keep improving the system as they have done so amazingly 
well in the past year.

Andrew


On Wednesday 29 January 2003 13:53, Jim wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 January 2003 06:55 am, Albert Wagner wrote:
> > That's true.  I was only trying to express my displeasure with the
> > continuing bloat in KDE.  On my other lists I note that others feel
> > the same and have already abandoned KDE.  Not everyone can afford the
> > biggest and fastest machine, which is what is more and more required
> > by KDE.  I'm not a Gnome troll either.  Gnome is also embarked on a
> > similar path.  Personally, I am rolling my own desktop to stay within
> > the limits of my hardware.  I wish KDE the best.  I have run it
> > exclusively for several years now.  I just can no longer afford the
> > resources it requires.
>
> You must be even poorer in resources than I am. It runs perfectly well on
> my Pentium 333 mhz machine with 128 megs of RAM. Bought this box in 1998.
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