Re: Is there hope to have KDE 4.x lighten up?

KDE4 may or may not be lighter on resources but there are also a lot of new
things such as for example desktop effects and if you have them enabled then
KDE4 will feel much more heavy (especially with nvidia proprietry drivers in
the case of desktop effects). From experience i can say that no software
really becomes lighter on resources. they just improve resource usage and
then add new things to use those resources up again. I am not complaining
but is a general observation that seems to ring true all over the place.

John

2008/10/3 Arthur Pemberton <[email protected]>

> Aside from the expected bugs/instabilities, I have found KDE 4 to be
> quite "heavy".
>
> I had to go from a Celeron 2.4GHz + 1GB of DDR333 to a P4 3.0GHz +
> 3.5GB of DDR400 to get to a comfortable KDE 4 performance. I'm seeing
> a lot of machines coming out with Atom processors, and I'm wondering
> how well is KDE 4 going to feel on those. I had read that Qt4 was
> supposed to make KDE4 quicker than KDE3, so I'm wondering if the
> current lack of speed are just due to left over stuff from KDE3 or
> otherwise.
>
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