On Monday 26 October 2009 05:57:59 am RedShift wrote:
This thread will probably erupt in a massive flamewar, yet I decided to post my story anyway. I am talking about the desktop experience in general, not the technical details behind it. Keep that in mind.
Done, the thread is fair topic for discourse among intelligent minds.
I've been working these past few months with KDE 4.3 and it feels very sluggish and incomplete.
There is no question about it. KDE4 is just slow compared kde3, or the ms desktops. My vista installs are more responsive. However, I don't think kde4 will remain like this. I think the response problem is due to remaining bugs in the API that should go away as kde4 matures. I think the biggest problem that kde4 will have to overcome is the stain on kde's reputation caused when a few major distros pushed kde4 out the door as a "New Desktop" when it was barely beta (kde 4.04 was released by SuSE as the desktop for 11.0 in June 2008) kde4.04 as a desktop -- gimme a break! But at 4.3.2, kde4 is getting there and I use it every day. The only time I boot another desktop is to work in a lightweight desktop (openbox, lxde, icewm, enlightenment) All provide a great desktop experience, but none compare to the completeness of tools provided natively in kde4. The only time I boot vista is to let updates run once monthly :) I didn't do windows 7 beta, so I can't comment there, but I have used every windows since windows 286 (what '88? when I moved from DOS 4.04) and all were "usable". I agree with much you have to say, but I have watched kde4 get better and better so I'm optimistic at this point that it will fulfill its promise, but I agree, it's not close to doing so yet. As for my list of kde4 annoyances (bugs) see: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/bugs/kde4/rankin-bug-list-20091026.pdf that's all 154 of them. (Note there are about 10 kde3 bugs in there, but I wasn't going to take the time to parse them out...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com