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Kacper Kopczyński wrote: |
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> Dnia 2010-03-14, o godz. 05:34:04 |
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> Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> napisał(a): |
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>> On 03/14/2010 04:57 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: |
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>>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>>> On 03/14/2010 02:53 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: |
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>>>>> The effects in kwin (such as window wobble) are vastly less |
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>>>>> smooth than that in compiz. I have noticed that compiz is faster |
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>>>>> in both kde4 and in gnome (with slight preference to gnome in |
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>>>>> speed) and wondering if this is normal, or something to do with |
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>>>>> my kwin setup. Running on GM 965 |
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>>>> kwin got crappy animation speed in KDE 4.4. It was as smooth as |
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>>>> compiz in 4.3. I asked about it in the KDE mailing list, but there |
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>>>> was zero interest in this regression. So you either have to live |
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>>>> with it, or switch to compiz. |
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>>> Thanks for your reply. I am currently using kde 4.3 because I try |
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>>> only to update to downstream-stable. Is there another explanation? |
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>> Too old drivers and X maybe. Since you're using downstream-stable, |
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>> but the cool DRM/GL/KMS stuff is only in the latest upstream |
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>> versions, this might be the problem. |
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> kwin is slower on intel cards. Kwin with gnome or xfce is much |
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> faster... Intel video cards are very slow... |
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> From my experience every version of kde above 3.0 is slower than any |
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> other window manager (gnome (sawfish, metacity, enlightenment), |
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> xfce(xfwm), compiz, lxde,...), on every machine I've had. It needs more |
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> memory, faster hard disks, stable filesystem (ext4::delalloc?), better |
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> video card... and so on. Even Qt seems to be slower than GTK+ if you |
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> launch application that does similar thing. |
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> ...or it's just my imagination :) |
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> If you want smooth kde get a nvidia or ati card, at least 256MB, 2GB |
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> ram, 1.6GHz. |
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> You could also try nice/renice |
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Thanks for your advice. It seems that this is the way of things: compiz |
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is very efficient but slightly incompatible with kde 4.x and kwin is |
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highly compatible and integrated but uses a lot of horse power. |
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Thanks, |
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Damien |
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