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On Dienstag 25 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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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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> >>>> |
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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 |
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> >>>> time 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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> >> |
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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 |
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> > intel hardware. |
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> |
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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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nvidia was not fine for a long time - and since nvidia replaces a lot of x and |
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kernel funtionailty within their driver I would not be surprised if they |
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replaced the offending parts too. Intel is not hit, because it is their patch |
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that made their life splendid and everybody else bad. |