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