KDE4 slow

[Alvaro Aguilera]

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.

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...


I have the same, my computer is simply unuseable with KDE4.
>
> Am Donnerstag, 25. Juni 2009 03:18:45 schrieb Michael Pyne:
> > In short, you just need to wait for the video driver support to catch up
> to
> > allow compositing to work smoothly.
>
> My video drivers are not supported any more (NVIDIA) because the card is
> just
> to old. Does this mean that I'll never  have a fast running KDE4 on my
> computer?
>
> Karl
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