[kde-linux] Unpopulated Control-Center window

[Dale]

david wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>   
>> Well, the issues I ran into were discussed here.  There wasn't a way to 
>> fix them with the current state of KDE 4, not that we could find 
>> anyway.  I'm not saying that KDE 4 is bad because it is not, it's just 
>> that some of the "features" I need are not working yet.  As soon as 
>> those things get sorted out so that I can do my everyday things, I'll 
>> most likely be on KDE 4. 
>>
>> I will also say, as I have said before, there is a lot that I like about 
>> KDE 4.  I'm not sure how well my old puter is going to like it but it 
>> looks OK to me.  May have to get a newer video card for this ole thing. 
>>     
>
> Maybe not, if you set KDE4 to lose all the eye candy. I have booted some 
> Live Linux CDs with KDE4 on my 4+ year old Celeron laptop (stuck with 
> the old Intel 8xx series video hardware) and the video hardware handles 
> it fine if the eye candy is either turned off or very conservatively set.
>
> LXDE runs very well on the old hardware. So does Fluxbox.
>
>   

Yea but I would leave all the eye candy turned on most likely.  I sort 
of like the eye candy stuff, as long as it works.  Heck, I like a lot of 
the stuff about KDE 4, I just need to wait until for the geeks that 
program it to get some more stuff working.  After all, KDE 4 is really a 
little baby right now.  It's crawling right now.  I expect it to start 
walking soon, then start running a little after that.  In several months 
KDE 4 will be all grown up and ready for track try outs. 

I didn't expect any less of KDE 3 when it came out.  It took them a good 
while to get KDE 3 working good.  They did tho.  If I need to upgrade my 
video card, I can handle that.  I'll just get the fastest AGP video card 
I can get at a reasonable price and put that little puppy in.  I plan to 
build a new rig soon.  It most likely will have a quad core AMD CPU and 
a few GBs of ram.  That should make KDE 4 really happy.   :-) 

Of course, for people that have older rigs than I do, they may have to 
stick with KDE 3 somehow or move to something else for a GUI.  Heck, I 
have had Fluxbox and Gnome on here before.  I just don't like them much 
but they are faster, especially Fluxbox. 

Dale  aka Mr Patient. 
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