I think something about KDE4 should be re-engineered. The applications you are continuously using (a file manager, kicker, window manager, menus, etc.) should open/work instantaneously. Having to wait, even for 1 second, has a psychological impact and degrades the overall experience. <br>
<br>My computer is not _that_ old (laptop with 2 cores at 2ghz, 4gb ram and intel 945 graphics) and I'm still using KDE3 because KDE4 feels very slow in comparison to KDE3. The applications from KDE4 work great and fast, when they run outside KDE4, so the problem must reside at the window manager, or similar. It would be great to have a KDE4-lite version, without plasma, and with a very basic, very fast, window manager. Having kde3 and kde4 installed on the same machine is becoming increasingly a PITA, since there are package-conflicts with some files, and sometimes they compete for resources like the sound card...<br>
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I have the same, my computer is simply unuseable with KDE4.<br>
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Am Donnerstag, 25. Juni 2009 03:18:45 schrieb Michael Pyne:<br>
> In short, you just need to wait for the video driver support to catch up to<br>
> allow compositing to work smoothly.<br>
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My video drivers are not supported any more (NVIDIA) because the card is just<br>
to old. Does this mean that I'll never have a fast running KDE4 on my<br>
computer?<br>
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Karl</blockquote><br></div><br>