Perhaps I misstated my point. My system is pretty snappy when it's working right (it should be as I've got 8GB RAM and 8 CPU cores) but since the last update Dolphin literally stop working for short periods when you interact with files (mouse over, click, right click). It's a total freeze of the application and it can take anywhere from 15-20 seconds to respond again. On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Shridhar Daithankar < ghodechhap@ghodechhap.net> wrote:
On Thursday 02 September 2010 04:53:24 David C. Rankin wrote:
On 09/01/2010 01:46 PM, Ray Rashif wrote:
KDE is fancy, but snappy it is not.
Funny, the windows side of the world found out that gigabyte desktops aren't that snappy either. Wonder if there is a common thread.
IMO KDE part of lost snappiness is due to addtional technical layers and latency between intra-daemon communication(nepomuk, strigi, akonadi and what not) rather than resource hog. It can be tuned down to bare minimum necessary.
I have not seen the lag anytime but I have a 4GB ram machine. however konqueror and rekonq are far more snappier than anything else. firefox OTOH damn its slow to start. even soffice starts faster than it. I have no extensions installed.
Another issue to consider is consistency of lag. on KDE side, its pretty much constant. On windows 7 machine at my work, its click and pray, despite of having a 2GB RAM machine.(1GB is taken by VM but lot is still free). Compared to KDE, that really unbearable.
-- Regards Shridhar