Some people have commented on the slowness of KDE. If you want just one
or two kde applications and not the whole environment you can invoke
them from the command line under Oroborosx. This avoids the problem of
slow window redrawing. The startup is still slow, especially the first
time you open an application, but not as slow as starting up all of KDE.
For example, I have been trying out kdvi, the KDE dvi viewer this way.
It's pretty impressive: it has an antialiased display, supports both
hyperlinks and the file marking provided by the latex package srcltx (so
that when you click in the dvi window your editor goes the corresponding
line in your source file), supports text search and cutting and pasting
of text, and can save files as postscript, pdf, or text.
It also claims to have a feature that I have not been able to get
working properly yet: if you are using emacs or xemacs, you can ask the
dvi viewer to go to the place corresponding to the cursor in your source
file. At the moment this feature fires up a new version of kdvi
everytime it does this, which is not the way it's supposed to work. (It
does manage to go to the correct spot, however.)
Regards,
Bill McCallum
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