On Monday 02 February 2009 08:53:06 am Freddie Cash wrote: > > * I am getting the "vista-effect" as my older 2.8Gz P4 / Radeon 9000 > > aren't up to the task of KDE4. I have desktop effects turned off. I've > > heard some rumours that Qt 4.5 may improve things, but I really do need > > to get a new computer. The days of refurbishing older hardware by > > installing *Nix may be drawing to an end... > > You definitely should not be getting a "vista-effect" with that hardware. > I also have a P4 2.8 GHz CPU, but with crappy onboard Intel i915 graphics > (8 MB shared RAM), and 2 GB of RAM; and I don't have any noticeable > slowdown in the GUI.
I may have a bad configurations somewhere. I've pored over all of the desktop tuning pages I could find, and It helped a little bit, but not nearly enough. > The only time things are slow is when I try to load multiple apps at once, > and the harddrive grinds away. Once apps are loaded, things are smooth and > quick, and the desktop is always smooth and quick. As a long time user of Unix systems, I naturally expect the ability to run multiple apps at the same time under heavy load. Have those days disappeared? > > * The main menu is very slow, whether it's kickoff or classic. Opening up > > a submenu may take ten to fifteen seconds, with some noticeable disk > > activity. Very annoying. > > That's not right. Something strange is going on, but not sure where to > even begin diagnosing something like that. I looked at this code recently, and recall that it built the menus on the fly. I'll have to look again to see how it's doing it. -- David Johnson _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
