Slow KDE 3.2.

[Mitch Wiedemann]

I had a similar experience with KDE 3.2.  The panel items (K-menu and 
desktop switcher most notably) would sometimes not respond at all to a 
click.  And worse, sometimes they'd hang.  Hitting Alt+tab would most of 
the time free them up again.

I ended up reinstalling FC1 to get back to KDE 3.1.  I guess I'll wait 
to try the upgrade again until the fedora project works them in to the 
distro.

Ismael Juma wrote:

>>I don't have much of a problem with KDE in general, but for some reason,
>>version 3.2 is extremely slow (menus take many seconds to open) in my P4
>>1.9Ghz with 640 MB of RAM laptop. I'm using FC1 with the 2.6.1-1-65
>>kernel. I found this interesting because I heard so many reports that
>>KDE 3.2 is much faster than 3.1. I guess there must be something in my
>>configuration that is causing the problems. 
>>    
>>
>
>I installed the Nvidia drivers and the speed of KDE 3.2 improved
>greatly. Menus open almost instantly instead of taking seconds like
>before, even with most of the eye-candy features on. So, for the people
>out there with Nvidia 3D cards that are having problems using KDE 3.2 in
>FC1 because of its slowness, installing the latest drivers from Nvidia
>is a possible solution.
>
>Regards,
>Ismael 
>  
>
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