severn kde useless
Maynard Kuona
knxmay001 at mail.uct.ac.za
Tue Sep 16 14:51:59 UTC 2003
Don't use KDE much, but I think more people need to Beta Test KDE for it
to be better in Redhat. Maybe its just me, but I think that much more
people here test using GNOME instead.
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 15:54, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 14:06, Neal D. Becker wrote:
> > I have been testing beta1 (virgin). I have given up. I use kde. Every time
> > I use it, the panel dies and the desktop becomes unresponsive. The mouse
> > moves, but the desktop doesn't work. It's a little hard to describe. This
> > seems to happen randomly, and the symptoms are not always identical. In
> > every case, clicking on the start panel icon will do nothing at all. I may
> > be able to raise windows by clicking on them, or maybe not. I may be able to
> > Alt-Ctl-f1 sometimes. If so, when switching back to X the panel is not
> > redrawn. Other times Alt-Ctrl-f1 does nothing, nor any other key sequence.
>
> I'm sorry I can't help you, but I feel the same about Red Hat's KDE.
>
> I want to pinpoint that KDE support in Red Hat is a no-go. Not only KDE
> feels slower than GNOME, but RedHat's KDE is much slower than SuSE's
> KDE, for example. Dragging a window in Red Hat's KDE has a considerable
> lag, window movement is not smooth and there is a delay since the user
> drags the window and the window starts moving. I thought it was related
> to 2.6 kernels and scheduler changes by Con Kolivas, but this is
> reproducible with 2.4 kernels too.
>
> All those problems can't be reproduce in SuSE 8.2. In fact, I have been
> forced to moved my laptop from Red Hat Linux to SuSE Linux. I love KDE,
> and I find Red Hat's KDE deceptive.
>
> I hope this will be fixed in a future release...
>
>
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