Jaunty kdm not handling Xorg crashing during logout well

Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Sun Oct 11 09:30:27 UTC 2009


>>> Relating to your other mail, I guess your kde feeling will 
>>> improve massively from another graphics board, as well.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Man, I was hearing all these stories about how KDE4 had a smaller 
>> footprint than GNOME and KDE3 and also how good qt4 was and BANG! KDE4 
>> is slow and kiosktool, the only group based desktop management tool 
>> there is on Linux, had not been ported.
>>
>>
>> Please forgive me if I feel kind of cheated.
>>     
>
> I'd blame the hardware. As a previous poster wrote, you could jam an old
> nVidia 5200 card with 128 megs of vram for $10. Or get one donated. I
> too work for a Non-Profit who pays for my hardware ...when they can. I'm
> running an old 5500 and nothing major happening wrong with KDE4. If you
> had a basis for feeling cheated, so would we all. But no one is
> reporting that. We might get "chargined" when the software takes over
> the idiot-in-the-chair's position and doing stuff unexpected. :) Ric
>
>
>   

Well...I was expecting KDE4 to be faster than GNOME on the same 
hardware. Especially since the latter depends on a set of libraries that 
a lot of people say is bloated.




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