[arch-general] kde 4.5.1-1 looks much better.

[Shridhar Daithankar]

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.


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Regards 
 Shridhar