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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads-up: KDEers: Particularly kde3-ers,
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:57:56
Message-Id: h6v8l5$l3k$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads-up: KDEers: Particularly kde3-ers, by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On 08/25/2009 02:33 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Montag 24 August 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
3 >> szalkai@×××××××.net schrieb:
4 >>> Now that this exciting little flamewar has finished, and everybody is
5 >>> friends again :), could you Duncan please give some examples of major
6 >>> breakage in KDE4?
7 >>
8 >> I'm not Duncan but I have 5 reasons not to switch to kde4 atm.
9 >>
10 >> 1) Speed: I have a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ with
11 >> 8GB of ram and a Radeon HD 3600 card but still kde 4.3 most of the time
12 >> feels like walking through mud.
13 >
14 > turn of composite or install a xorg-server with the
15 > fedora_dont_backfill_bg_none.patch and see kde fly.
16
17 ...and see it produce a crapload of artifacts during window and menu
18 opening. Still better than a slow as molasses GUI though.
19
20 In any event though, that's hardly KDE's fault anyway. It's the crappy
21 Catalyst drivers from AMD (I suffer the same issues).

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads-up: KDEers: Particularly kde3-ers, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Heads-up: KDEers: Particularly kde3-ers, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>