Re: Gnome

[jfm2@club-internet.fr]

> 
> jfm2@club-internet.fr wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Birger Langkjer wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is it fast? That's my main problem with KDE.
> > >
> > 
> > Is it slow due to memory use (you hear the disk paging) or due to CPU
> > power?  I have found that on slow boxes (read a P75) movement of
> Well, it's mostly slow when it starts a new program, eg. Netscape takes
> a
> long time to load. You can almost click the icon and then go put the 
> kettle on ;-) 
> 

Netscape has ever had pathetic memory management.  That is one of the
reasons Mozilla is badly needed.

> There _is_ a swap problem, but it only starts when kfm have run for
> while.
> It generates a whole bunch of tmpfiles in memory called 'kioslave?'
> 

This is a "feature" of KDE.  I cannot do nothing about it.

> Maybe I should get some more ram, since it's so cheap, but looking at
> the 
> inside of my PC it looks like I'll have to disassemble the whole thing
> to
> install the extra ramcards.
> 

Or drop navigator and use Opera (payware) or mozilla (still unstable)

> > windows tends to lag behind.  Atonishibgly opaque move is a lot faster
> > than KDE's transparent move so turn it on.
> 'xcuse my ignorance, but what is opaque move?
> 

In opaque move you see the whole window moving with its contents still
displayed.  In transparent move you only see the outline but in KDE
you see the outline and a semi-transparent zone where the title bar
was.  It seems that moving this semi-transparent zone requires lots of
CPU power.

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