KDE4.2 awesome, but slow and unstable: temporary or permanent?

[Andrew Mason]

Hi there David,
The good news is that most the experience you have is probably not KDE
related. The bad news is that the KDE team can't really fix those
particular issues.

The intel slowness is (even without composite ) is a well known issue.
Unfortunately the problem lies somewhere in the intel driver / drm
stack. Ubuntu has this issue also. Fedora 11 is fine as far as I'm
aware, so I'm not sure what they are doing differently but they seem
to have something worked out.

The KDM login issues are also something I experienced on fedora coming
back from hibernation. I'm not sure when you have experienced it but I
believe this has something to do with the resume function. If this is
not the case for you then if you can reproduce the error it might be
worth adding a bug to bugs.kde.org.

I have a few KDE boxes, all running the same codebase, unfortunately
only 2 of them are running correctly and this is almost entirely due
to the Xorg stack. X is getting better, its just in a state of flux at
the moment and unfortunately because of the "no hacks" approach taken
in KDE 4 it is going to be a while before the Xorg team are able to
catch up to KDE. It will happen though, it will just take time and it
will be better in the long run.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:08 AM, David <david.maillists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First of all, I must say that I am impressed with the features and the look
> of KDE4. This is just wonderful. Good work! But...:
>
> Well, I do not know whether people that told that version 4.2 was acceptably
> stable were too optimistic. I installed KDE 4.2 in Debian unstable in a Core
> 2 Duo box, and it is more or less acceptable. It is worth pointing that the
> desktop effects are not enabled (yet) until I can compile the nvidia
> proprietary driver.
>
> I also tried to install in a Dual Core box, two years old, but the Debian
> (i386) version malfunctioned: issues with mysql that left kde4 unconfigured,
> the desktop and panel did not start after log in, etc. Then I tried to
> install xfce but Debian sid had broken dependences at that moment, so I just
> installed Arch (i686). Now KDE works, more or less... I have two complaints:
>
> 1) Everything very slow, even scrolling up and down a window. I do not know
> if it may be because I had the deskop effects activated and the card is an
> Intel 945, but KDE 3.5 with translucencies was pretty quick. I do not know
> if the display is to blame or the problem is elsewhere, but everything is
> slow, and my computer is not so old...
>
> 2) Unstable: not excesively, but in just one day I have experienced KDE
> exiting into KDM, and in another occasion the KDE start froze while in
> progress and locked the X server (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace not working).
>
> These two points (slow and unstable), are they just temporary and they will
> go in future versions or, will we have to live with one or both of them
> forever? Please do not consider this as trolling: I write it here because I
> know there are some developers in this list. Or maybe I should ask in a
> developer list?
>
> Please kindly Cc to me if replying. Thank you,
>
> David
>
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