Hi everyone, after not having been able to test area51 I thought I could at least give the new packages a try. First of all, thanks for the porting efforts, I am sure its a lot of work and a pain at times.
I am running FreeBSD7 and installed the binary Pkgs as described. Here's my observations: PERFORMANCE: - the overall performance when desktop effects are turned off feels very good, i.e. the overall desktop feels very responsive: applications boot fast, alt-f2 app-choser is fast; typing and spellchecking is fast, switching desktops and minimizing windows is fast etc. BUT: - when desktop effects are turned on, the desktop is really slow. As soon as an effect is used (minimizing, transparency or wobble), the fps go down to 3 or 4 (from about 60 in "idle") - even with effects turned off resizing plasma-widgets is not possible in real- time (I resize and wait at least 5 seconds before something happens). [I know these problems have been reported for nvidia-cards, but I am using an intel-GMA, that works flawlessly otherwise. I have 1GB of Ram and a [EMAIL PROTECTED] other performance issues: - konqueror is slow on opening new tabs. I think that was reported already. - the desktop takes quite long to boot up. - if you klick "find files and folders" in the old-style menu, it takes about 20 seconds to start - in regular effects-off-mode kded4 uses around 13% of my cpu, is that normal? SOUND: My sound doesn't work. Using the xine-backend lets juk and dragon play media, but I just don't hear anything. Switching the backend while running dragon or juk, crashes the application. Both dragon and juk won't play any media when gstreamer is selected as backend. Note that when using xine manually and manually choosing OSS as sound- output, xine works flawlessly. Is there no way to configure the backend manually to use OSS? If that isn't possible (although I don't see why it shouldnt) and autoselection fails, should the xine-phonen-backend for freebsd be patched to *allways* use OSS? General Bugs + Application crashes: - Plasma wont remember any settings and I always start out with an empty desktop, no panels. This wasnt the case when starting kde first-time, but it is now and its quite annoying. - Trying to install a plasmoid via khotnewstuff2 crashes the entire desktop (or maybe only plasma, but I could fix the situation) - Kmail crashed once, but not reproduceably - kde completely crashed once on exiting. - konqueror crashes quite often because of different issues, konqueror also tries to repeatedly restore a session although an instance of konqueror is already running that has that session restored. kio-http randomly crashes to the point where I have to restart an instance of konqueror to get http working (it tells me that the http-protocol handler is incompatible or sth.like that) And then there's all sorts of little bugs that probably are not freebsd- related, but I'll count them up, in case you think differently: - Trying to put the locationbar in the maintoolbar crashes konqueror - starting with empty tab in konqueror is bugged, the tab-bar and the tab arent shown correctly (entering an address solves the problem though). - kopete and jabber dont work (that was reported IIRC) - if you turnoff menubar in konqueror and switch to a different tab it reappears... Hm, I think thats it for now. If you need more information let me know (I am subscribed to the list). Thanks for you efforts, hope to be of more help in the future... Greetings Hannes _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
