KDE4 just too slow

[Eduardo Robles Elvira]

El Viernes 18 Enero 2008, Douglas Phillipson escribió:
> I've found KDE4 WAY too slow for use.  After clicking an Icon for an
> application it takes 2 seconds just to get launch feedback, then the app
> takes a long time to show up.  It's pretty but doesn't seem too
> functional yet.  (Kind of like GNOME)  8-)  Had to go back to 3.5.8 to
> get some work done.
>
> Doug P

KDE 4.0.0 uses more ram than KDE3, and more CPU in many cases. Things like 
double buffering all the widgets can be a cause of this. 

Also, the code is a base and needs to be optimized (example: plasmoids 
rotations), and many bug fix work needs to be done. Maybe it's called 4.0.0 
and maybe that was the best thing to do as aseigo and other developers have 
stated in their blogs, but that doesn't mean that users should use it as 
their working enviroment.

As a developer and as a KDE poweruser which wants to help, I use KDE 4.0.0 
from time to time, to have some fun and to find and report bugs.

At the moment I'm using 3.5.8 as my desktop enviroment, but I'm also running 
some KDE4 applications: kopete, konqueror, konsole, kwrite and kate, which 
are applications that I daily use and whose KDE 4.0.0 version is stable 
enough for me.

If you are short on ram and wants to try running kde 3.x and 4.x applications, 
take into account that will take some extra ram in order to load libraries 
and daemons from two different DE (qt3, qt4, kdelibs4 and kdelibs5, etc).

Have fun!
       Eduardo Robles Elvira.
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