On 11/07/2010 07:57 AM, John Culleton wrote: > On Saturday 06 November 2010 14:13:33 Pablo Sanchez wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I believe developers may read/lurk this list. I'd like to >> congratulate everyone on how wonderful KDE 4.X has improved from >> iteration to iteration. >> >> I like the fact the `eye candy' can be dialed in to one's liking. >> If someone wants to go to `11', they can. I love that the software >> has capabilities beyond my needs. Very cool. >> >> In short: well done and thank _you_!!! >> >> Cheers, > So far KDE 4.x that I have seen has been sluggish and clumsy to use. > And one of the most useful parts of the KDE Suite, Quanta Plus, has > not been rewritten to match. So I use XFCE, after many years of using > KDE. I have to have Qt 4 available because apps are moving to it. As > for the rest, fugeddaboudit. > > If/when the eye candy gets out of the way and KDE becomes a > workmanlike program launcher again I may revisit again. As of now I am > happy to just say no. > > I expect to put up a Slackware 12.2 partition just to get at Quanta > Plus. And I have already retrograded from Slackware 13.1 to Slackware > 13.0 on my main partition. The Xorg folks are also fiddling to our > detriment. > > Not every change is an improvement. But lately our string of bad luck > has been astonishing. Unless proven wrong, I still assert that the problem is Plasma. It was -- probably still is -- behind the curve of KDE-4.
While people are still working on KDE-3 (IIUC), it appears to me that it would be more productive to port KDEsktop and Kicker to KDE-4/QT-4 without using composting. That should be at least a partial fix to the sluggish desktop. I admit that Kicker does need some work since there are 2 ways to put an icon on it and these can cause conflicts. However, Plasma chose the wrong one of the two methods and the problems still existed, only worse. -- James Tyrer Linux (mostly) From Scratch ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
