Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:56:49 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: David Gurvich <david.gurvich@verizon.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Impressions of kde-4.1 Message-ID: <48AC9321.6070609@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080820171614.32a7de0a@verizon.net> References: <20080820171614.32a7de0a@verizon.net>
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David Gurvich wrote: > 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. > My KDE4.1 has been up for a few days now, and I have not really noticed it getting slower. It definitely is slower than any other desktop I've tried, and certainly slower than KDE3.5. I have some issues with Nvidia driver and transparency (sometimes parts of the taskbar, mostly buttons, become transparent), it is not very serious problem though. I had no crashes and it is certainly usable. The machine is no speed daemon either; an Athlon 64 3200+ with 2G of RAM and a 7300GT that just about manages the 1680x1050 resolution in KDE4. > 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. Strange, every machine that I installed KDE4 I had to tweak font settings to get them to look good. Never had to do this with 3.5 (though I had to do it with GNOME) > This may > change if the speed improves. If all other aspects are equal I like > having better looking desktop. > > Yes, I think KDE4.x is a step in the right direction for the KDE desktop. It may have its problems now, but it definitely looks nice. As a sidenote, I uploaded (and currently seeding) a torrent with KDE 4.1 packages and an installer script (intended for new FreeBSD installs) here: http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=c08d546327215f32f566f6d215ba30fff952692c (also on tuxdistro, but this seems to have a problem at the moment) I built all the packages on a dedicated machine. Newer versions of xorg, bash, samba and a few others are also included.
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