From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 20 21:16:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 114C3106567C for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:16:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.gurvich@verizon.net) Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net (vms044pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3D88FC1E for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:16:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.gurvich@verizon.net) Received: from localhost ([71.249.92.53]) by vms044.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0K5X003I64F2FHQD@vms044.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:16:15 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:16:14 -0400 From: David Gurvich To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20080820171614.32a7de0a@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: Impressions of kde-4.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:16:27 -0000 I've installed the kde4 packages for freebsd-7-stable and the only program that I've tested that doesn't work is konqueror, that has problems with speed and stability, terminal emulator does not work, and leaves zombie processing to take up memory. I noticed 10 konqueror processes after having closed the last konqueror window about 20 minutes before. Has anyone noticed that the longer kde4 runs the slower it gets? I don't mean a little slower, I mean like the difference between windowmaker and kde startup. That may have something to do with the machine I've done this on, a thinkpad T23 with 1GB ram. Finally, kde4 looks nice but I don't see anything I would change from kde3 for, though fonts do look better to me than in kde3. This may change if the speed improves. If all other aspects are equal I like having better looking desktop.