how to make KDE faster?

[Dik Takken]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Trevor Smith wrote:

> Now that I've upgraded to the latest KDE and have been using FC1 for a while
> I'm ready to start trying to make it faster.
>
> I have 384meg of ram on an older computer (PIII 500) and Win2kPro, which is a
> huge pig if run in less RAM, is VERY snappy. KDE, however, is not. For
> example, double-clicking on my home directory icon on the desktop takes
> between 1 and 3 seconds to open it. On Win2k this action would be
> instantaneous. (There are 14 visible items in the directory; file previews
> are turned OFF.)

KDE 3.2 runs even more snappy than Win2k on my 800MHz computer with 128MB
RAM. It must be the way those FC1 binaries have been compiled. I compiled
my KDE manually, optimized for maximum speed.

Cheers,

Dik

> Opening a Konsole window produces the same results (2 - 3 or even more seconds
> delay before it is open).
>
> This is not an issue of disk drive access, KDE just seems "sluggish".
>
> Is this something that can be fixed? Is it something I can fix now? Or does it
> simply require more / faster/ newer hardware / resources?
>
> Or can it never be "fixed"? Is it, in fact, just the nature of the code that
> KDE will never "pop open" windows as quickly as Win2kPro does?
>
> It's frustrating when I occasionally boot back to Win2k and see how "snappy"
> my system responds compared to what I'm forced to deal with on a regular
> basis with FC1 + KDE. I'll buy a new computer, if that is what it will take,
> but please tell me that there is *some* way to make a KDE desktop behave the
> way a computer *should* in the 21st century! :-)
>
> --
>  Trevor Smith    |    trevor at haligonian.com
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