CharlesMalone wrote:

kees-tux wrote:I finally gave up on KDE4. I have several machines @home and @work with linux. On all I have debian and KDE3 installed. Last week via updates one was transformed to KDE4. I decided to give it a fair chance. But I found it nearly unworkable. Logging in and out took ages, things became slooowww. Unstable experiences with Konqueror and Dolphin... on a otherwise nice running machine. With the KDE3 on it everything worked fine. With KDE4 my productivety dropped with 60%. I'll go back to KDE3 soon but for now I removed all the KDE4 stuff and I am trying xfce4...

Kees

I am facing the same problem with the speed with KDE4 too... Still contemplating should I revert back to KDE3 until further upgrades are patched and released... =(

Charles

That largely depends on your hardware, in particular amount of ram. If you have 512 MB of ram or more, you should be fine (though 768 MB - 1 GB is recommended) but you should disable desktop effects (either all compositing effects, or any of the heavier/3d effects). Running less than 512 MB and you should either have all effects turned off, or be using a different desktop (good choices include XFCE, LXDE and Enlightenment).
If you really want KDE3, then look into the Trinity desktop which is a fork-continuation of the KDE3 desktop.

Actually the KDE4 the full-blwon-stuff isn't that bad if you "tend it" correctly. Just few days before 4.6.1 came out I had real problems with RAM consumption in KDE. My KDE never fell under 1200MB of my 2GB.
I was lost and didn't know what to do. But then I decided, hey I should delete my .KDE4 and all KDE related files in .config
(akonadi and kde).
Yeah I did lost all of my passwords and bookmarks in proces, only thing that you really need to keep in the proces, but since then my KDE goes over 1GB of RAM. And it's mostly somewhere between 700 and 800MB.
And now I thinking, also for other reasons, creating a shell script that could be used as shell script which would back up the bookmarks and kwallet passwords.

Of course the ideal thing would be, that every update of KDE wouldn't add unnecesary configs and stuff like that in .KDE4 and .config and thus their delition wouldn't be neccessary.

What I don't get is why everyone is so obsessed with transparency features in KDE4.
Aeroglass envy?

glaston wrote:What I don't get is why everyone is so obsessed with transparency features in KDE4.
Aeroglass envy?

Because it makes it look pretty