KDE 4.3 on Kubuntu 9.10 is very solid. Quite happy with it on a dell netbook, and very snappy at work.
Unfortunately, some key applications aren't yet 4.x ish. need to wait for 4.4 before the email/pim/communications suites are fully there. I have a mythtv box, and KDE 4.3 is a pain there, because it keep giving in-appropriate prompts (for patches etc... ) This is a pain because I cannot get LIRCMD (the mouse daemon for remote controls) to work, so I have to get out a keyboard and mouse and connect them up, just to hit cancel every second day. Also, after about being logged in for about two days, I notice large amount of cpu going to some KDE desktop process, to the point where video playback starts stuttering. I kill it (killing some eye candy that I cannot see anyways because mythtv covers the whole screen) and it's ok again. So for the myth box I'd like to go to something lightweight like fluxbox or xfce. I saw references to ratpoison, Anybody use/like that? On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:17 PM, David Pelletier <[email protected]>wrote: > XFCE4 and openbox on slower computers here. Pretty much for the same > reasons as has been said before, they get out of the way, they are fast, > stable and do not require a humongous ammount of dependencies. > > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ravnox <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I was a big fan of XFCE when I was using Slackware years ago. While I >> wanted to like and use KDE, it was just too buggy for me. XFCE was so >> fast and stable but KDE got better and I moved on to it. (I never >> liked Gnome) >> >> XFCE went well with the Slackware style of hacking everything to make >> it run like you want to. I just had enough of doing so much manual >> configuration and compiling so many applications not packaged with >> Slackware... Kubuntu forever now! ;) (Though I use Debian for servers) >> >> -- >> Ravnox >> >> Quoting patricia campbell <[email protected]>: >> >> > At the risk of starting a holy war what are the preferred desktop >> > environments out there in mlug-land & why. >> > >> > XFCE4 is mine light weight & uncluttered >> > KDE >> > Gnome >> > >> > other ? >> > >> > -- >> > ___..____._..___._..___. >> > ...|...|___/..|..|......|..|___| >> > ...|...|.....\..|..|___.|..|.....| >> > >> > "I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do >> > it." -Vincent Van Gogh >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mlug mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >> > > > > -- > David Pelletier > http://spareminds.org > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > >
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