From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 24 08:15:56 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 9072B106566B for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:15:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from cp-out9.libero.it (cp-out9.libero.it [212.52.84.109]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E21E8FC16 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:15:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from soth.ventu (151.51.54.64) by cp-out9.libero.it (8.5.107) id 4C9878AD0084B0F0 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:15:55 +0200 Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.ventu [10.1.2.18]) by soth.ventu (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o8O8FqXR018726 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:15:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Message-ID: <4C9C5E38.4030205@netfence.it> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:15:52 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; it-IT; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100917 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3368057398-783131724@intranet.com.mx> <4C9B03DB.6000806@netfence.it> <201009231004.21559.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.1.2.13 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: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:15:56 -0000 On 09/23/10 18:22, Adam Vande More wrote: > 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. I tried 4.5.1 on 8.1/i386 with every port updated, on a 4-core AMD CPU with a Radeon HD 4200: _ base components continuosly crash; _ there were severe rendering problems (i.e. black areas sometimes instead of icons, windows not updating when moved, ecc...); _ I possibly had driver problems, with some accelerations not working (could not enable it in the system settings); _ and everything was not just slow, but *SLOW*; _ it messed so much with my hardware, that I could not switch back to KDE3 without a reboot (simply restarting the X server was not enough). I do not hold by breath for burning windows, rotating desktops or other fancy effects, but the system was plainly unusable. So, I appreciate the nice work, but I'll wait for some new version. If some developer needs some info or wants me to do some test, I still have everything installed, so I'll gladly help. bye av.