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On 08/25/2009 02:55 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Dienstag 25 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> On 08/25/2009 02:33 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>>> On Montag 24 August 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: |
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>>>> szalkai@×××××××.net schrieb: |
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>>>>> Now that this exciting little flamewar has finished, and everybody is |
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>>>>> friends again :), could you Duncan please give some examples of major |
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>>>>> breakage in KDE4? |
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>>>> |
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>>>> I'm not Duncan but I have 5 reasons not to switch to kde4 atm. |
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>>>> 1) Speed: I have a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ with |
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>>>> 8GB of ram and a Radeon HD 3600 card but still kde 4.3 most of the time |
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>>>> feels like walking through mud. |
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>>> |
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>>> turn of composite or install a xorg-server with the |
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>>> fedora_dont_backfill_bg_none.patch and see kde fly. |
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>> ...and see it produce a crapload of artifacts during window and menu |
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>> opening. Still better than a slow as molasses GUI though. |
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>> |
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>> In any event though, that's hardly KDE's fault anyway. It's the crappy |
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>> Catalyst drivers from AMD (I suffer the same issues). |
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> |
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> or from a bad decision by the xorg devs to punish everybody for crappy intel |
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> hardware. |
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Only Catalyst has this problem. The open source Radeon drivers are fine |
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(and of course NVidia's closed drivers and everything Intel is fine |
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too). It's one of those Catalyst bugs that are there for several years |
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but one bothers fixing. |
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