El Miércoles 15 Septiembre 2004 19:51, Linus McCabe escribió: > Hello! > > Thanks for taking the time to test and compare your box! > > How does the qt menus on your debian box 'feel'. How do they compare to a > gtk application? On my box, they're so slow it's really gets in your way > when working... > With some styles there is a little bit flickering. But I should not say slow.
<publicity style="Oh hell!, what kind of **** is this?" type="unrelated"> Try the new and refreshing dotCURVE. It is fast, small and clean. http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=16211 And it is packaged by the developer (me). Run to get it before everyone does. </publicity> > > The unique thing I can tell you is to install libc6-686 and the apropiate > > kernel package. > > This was a great tip, and though it didnt help with the menu-performance, > I'm sure it's doing good in other ways! > Well, I forgot to say you may have a trouble with that machine, It's not logical it runs so slow. Sometimes kde gets bloated (????), try to start a session with a new user, and move away ~/.kde/share/config/sessions. > > Only my "passion" for Debian mantains me with it, and the hope one day it > > will be compiled for 586 :( > Yesterday was not my day :( Nobody impedes to make a 686 Debian version, or compiling it myself. > I've heard different figures/opinions on how much 686 optimizations > actually do, but why isn't it just considered a different architecture with To have all for 686 may be not result in great performance boost. But it is logical you are going to win with optimized libc6/libm, xlibs, kdelibs and may be other as libpng or freetype. This weekend xperf and apt-build are going to work. > all packages available in both 386 and 686 versions? (just like theres > alpha and ppc...) > Ask buildd and mirrors if to have more work, space and bandwith is fine. > /Linus
