[kde] Re: KDEPIM 4.6 prob^Wimpressions

2011-06-29 Thread Kevin Krammer
Hi Alex, On Tuesday, 2011-06-28, Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! I did the big KDE 4.6.3 - 4.6.4 upgrade. Along came the change to KDEPIM 4.6. I feared for the worst, and indeed, it didn't work too well. Ah, sorry to hear that. Most distributions have fortunately not put the new PIM into the

[kde] Re: KDEPIM 4.6 prob^Wimpressions

2011-06-29 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Wednesday, 2011-06-29, Duncan wrote: Alex Schuster posted on Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:24:58 +0200 as excerpted: I did the big KDE 4.6.3 - 4.6.4 upgrade. Along came the change to KDEPIM 4.6. I feared for the worst, and indeed, it didn't work too well. Your experience mirrors mine to a large

[kde] kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I just installed KDE RC1. The trend of kwin becoming slower and slower continues with this release. I remember KDE 4.3 (or maybe 4.2) where kwin was fast and nice. After every release, it would become slower. It reached a negative peak with 4.6. Now with 4.7 RC1, kwin has become even more

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread phanisvara das
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:14:33 +0530, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: I just installed KDE RC1. The trend of kwin becoming slower and slower continues with this release. I remember KDE 4.3 (or maybe 4.2) where kwin was fast and nice. After every release, it would become slower. It

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: I just installed KDE RC1. The trend of kwin becoming slower and slower continues with this release. I remember KDE 4.3 (or maybe 4.2) where kwin was fast and nice. After every release, it would become slower. It reached a negative peak with 4.6. Now with 4.7 RC1,

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/29/2011 03:45 PM, phanisvara das wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:14:33 +0530, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I just installed KDE RC1. The trend of kwin becoming slower and slower continues with this release. I remember KDE 4.3 (or maybe 4.2) where kwin was fast and nice.

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/29/2011 04:07 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Nikos Chantziaras writes: I just installed KDE RC1. The trend of kwin becoming slower and slower continues with this release. [...] Is it also slow with compositing turned off (Alt-Shift-F12 to toggle)? There are no effects (minimizing, present

[kde] Re: KDEPIM 4.6 prob^Wimpressions

2011-06-29 Thread Jerome Yuzyk
On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 02:16:57 AM Kevin Krammer kevin.kram...@gmx.at wrote: Hi Alex, On Tuesday, 2011-06-28, Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! I did the big KDE 4.6.3 - 4.6.4 upgrade. Along came the change to KDEPIM 4.6. I feared for the worst, and indeed, it didn't work too

[kde] Re: KDEPIM 4.6 prob^Wimpressions

2011-06-29 Thread Duncan
Kevin Krammer posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:16:57 +0200 as excerpted: Ah, sorry to hear that. Most distributions have fortunately not put the new PIM into the normal repositories yet but kept it in experiemental ones for early adopters. FWIW, kdepim 4.6.0 (and thus the new kmail) is in the

[kde] Re: KDEPIM 4.6 prob^Wimpressions

2011-06-29 Thread Duncan
Jerome Yuzyk posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:40:32 -0600 as excerpted: All this talk about trashed mail and such isn't very encouraging. Is there somewhere that explains what changes are afoot for this new release? Right now it sounds like KMail is going to some big binary blob for all my mails

[kde] Re: KDEPIM 4.6 prob^Wimpressions

2011-06-29 Thread John Layt
On Wednesday 29 Jun 2011 18:40:32 Jerome Yuzyk wrote: All this talk about trashed mail and such isn't very encouraging. Is there somewhere that explains what changes are afoot for this new release? Right now it sounds like KMail is going to some big binary blob for all my mails a la Outlook,

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Kim Leyendecker
Am 29.06.2011 15:19, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: There are no effects (minimizing, present windows, etc) with compositing turned off, so there can be no comparison. Moving windows around is fast and smooth in both cases. It's compositing animations that have become very slow. When I enable

[kde] Re: KDEPIM 4.6 prob^Wimpressions

2011-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Kevin Krammer writes: On Tuesday, 2011-06-28, Alex Schuster wrote: I did the big KDE 4.6.3 - 4.6.4 upgrade. Along came the change to KDEPIM 4.6. I feared for the worst, and indeed, it didn't work too well. Ah, sorry to hear that. Most distributions have fortunately not put the new PIM

[kde] Re: KDEPIM 4.6 prob^Wimpressions

2011-06-29 Thread John Layt
On Wednesday 29 Jun 2011 20:59:30 Alex Schuster wrote: I had upgraded to KDEPIM 4.6 in February already, when it had been unmasked accidentally for a day or so, and I also had lots of problems. Fortunately, after the downgrade all was fine again. Ah, I wonder if that's the problem? Did you

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/29/2011 10:47 PM, Kim Leyendecker wrote: Am 29.06.2011 15:19, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: There are no effects (minimizing, present windows, etc) with compositing turned off, so there can be no comparison. Moving windows around is fast and smooth in both cases. It's compositing

[kde] Re: KDEPIM 4.6 prob^Wimpressions

2011-06-29 Thread Duncan
Kevin Krammer posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:53:11 +0200 as excerpted: I expected you might reply to this, Kevin, as I know you're around and worked on trying to get it working right. No personal offense intended, of course, I just reported my experience. But I'm glad someone is investigating.

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread phanisvara das
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:50:34 +0530, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: K:D:F ?? I've never seen that notation before. Is it simply indicating KDE, version 4 (d) dot 6 (f), or something else? Where'd the idea come from? Is it OpenSuSE or your own idea or from elsewhere, and what's the

[kde] Re: KDEPIM 4.6 prob^Wimpressions

2011-06-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Duncan writes: Alex Schuster posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:59:30 +0200 as excerpted: The mail migration part should have written its output to a file as well, check $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kmail-migrator Good idea to save this, although a notice box telling me would have been nice. But

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Duncan
Nikos Chantziaras posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:15:54 +0300 as excerpted: On 06/29/2011 03:45 PM, phanisvara das wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:14:33 +0530, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I just installed KDE RC1. The trend of kwin becoming slower and slower continues with this

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Duncan
phanisvara das posted on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:13:52 +0530 as excerpted: On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:50:34 +0530, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: K:D:F ?? I've never seen that notation before. Is it simply indicating KDE, version 4 (d) dot 6 (f), or something else? Where'd the idea come

[kde] Re: kwin performance gets worse and worse with every release

2011-06-29 Thread Duncan
Nikos Chantziaras posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:22:36 +0300 as excerpted: (I'm using a Radeon HD4870 with the open source drivers.) I was able to find a tweak that makes kwin usable again though. I had to create a ~/.drirc file and put this in there: driconf device screen=0