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

[Robert Howard]

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 at 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
>