I just created a new bug report in Kde for all this, Let's see what the plasma guys are saying
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Christophe Prud'homme <prudh...@debian.org > wrote: > Dear Debian KDE Maintainers, > > First, thank you for your job, I know that maintaining huge packages is > very much time consuming and not easy. > > * Kde experience > > Before reporting a bug in KDE I would like to have your opinion on how > best it should be done. > I have been using Kde for many years now, basically from its creation until > 4.3.x. I have also installed > 4.4.x. Because I maintain and use paraview (a big package also) I add to > get rid of 4.4 and go back to 4.3 (due to Qt dependency). > > For the record, I have a Lenovo T61p with an Nvidia Quadro FX 570M card > with 8Go of RAM and Debian unstable > I have enabled some of the fancy effects > > ** suspend > > With Kde 4.x I always had problems with suspend, either it just didn't work > (laptop froze) or > after 2 successfull suspends I had to shutdown/reboot the laptop > I always thought that it was due to bad Nvidia drivers(I am using the ones > shipped by Debian ). > > ** Very slow desktop > > With 4.3.x and 4.4.1 (and possibly earlier versions of Kde 4 I cannot > remember ) I > had also plasma or the desktop that would become incredibly slow to > the point of being unusable then sometimes > after a little while it would be back. > > ** Desktop/Plasma does not resize properly > > I teach courses at the university and I use quite often twinview of nvidia > through nvidia-settings in order to show > some slides or make demos. When I disable the video projector and get back > to laptop screen only, the plasma desktop > keeps the preview large screen dimension and the plasma panels are far too > large and don't show the almond, systray and parts > of the taskbar. I usually "fix" that by adding some spacer (still no almond > though). This is just painful. > > *Gnome Experience > > Basically it was becoming hard to use Kde on a daily basis and I decided to > have a little experiment: install gnome 2.28 (I have some > gnome 2.30 packages installed too). I have also installed compiz and > enabled all kind of effects. > > Now for two weeks, > - the desktop never became slow, it is very responsive and is quite fancy > - suspend just works, it is a bliss. > - no issues with desktop resizing > > In my opinion, there is something wrong KDE/Plasma and its use of OpenGL. > Before this experience, I blamed nvidia and was looking > for changing my laptop and use ATI but now I definitely blame KDE/Plasma > > Any suggestions how to report this ? the resize problem is definitely a > plasma bug but what about suspend and the slow desktop ? plasma too ? > > any suggestions ? thoughts ? > > Best regards > C. >
