From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 23 16:22:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AA8C1065672 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:22:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB7AE8FC0C for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:22:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm9 with SMTP id 9so1480283fxm.13 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:22:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ZOgsq9c6AntYITOAPS9Rdh++jcjzYhFULQhZe4QRwMY=; b=U5ya7qSnxO52e61T/Sg4Bq+zgvBeX6CbG+UTIUwO9rJ2xSTNkUtd6IkaxjMZljv7zT ql5ZAQnOW8PhyNRDaSN+qvbe2E1qBU/vltdbbxp4aMU3NlfyaM923wxcgKUds5SD4i7/ r5vUIS1O2YYXp4L9XQtbw60njczTl2RaJEpkI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=VkwBqAvHnHgPSqbcb/PDoOLUAoGQivH0fgXE++v+w2pQU37o15co/6mc40D0XcqiXp Zbw96GfZuLdvuQ81y65cxJS+5mls0oV10JooWr53Q5KYyu+4Qn0/BXt+akuQIMRwpcNi M3cDl/4jiI4TahO022UwpBAp+RKrfKItpfODo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.124.206 with SMTP id v14mr1068307far.52.1285258941703; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:22:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.104.201 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:22:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201009231004.21559.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> References: <3368057398-783131724@intranet.com.mx> <4C9B03DB.6000806@netfence.it> <201009231004.21559.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:22:21 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Mike Clarke Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GUI Suggested? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:22:23 -0000 On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Mike Clarke wrote: > When I first tried KDE4 it was much slower than KDE3, have things > improved sufficiently since then for me to think about upgrading? > If you tried on KDE 4.1, 4.2, then yes things have improved a lot. 4.3 was pretty big update in terms of stability, and 4.4 has been far more solid than not. All the base KDE apps seem to work appropriately, at least the ones I use. However in my use while KDE4 was unstable early, it was always faster than 3 at least when an app wasn't hung ;). Also for me, I went back and forth between 3 and 4 several times before finally sticking with 4. The UI does take some getting used too. Perhaps another part of the stability question is I don't turn on any of the fancy eye-candy effects. I don't use KDE because of the way it looks, I use it because it allows me to work in a efficient manner. -- Adam Vande More