Re: new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anybody been playing around with the new KDE we got a few days ago
> in Sid?
>
> The graphics are nice, but looks like the GUI is not as fast or
> responsive as the older one. 

Without any exact measurement I thought it was starting up faster on my 
system which is quite a bit slower than yours.

> This is on a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core
> Processor 5600+ with 2 GB of RAM and GeForce 8600 Nvidia card. On this
> kind of a machine, the GUI should *not* have been sluggish. I really
> hope the KDE people have not pulled a Vista their uses! :)
>
> BTW, plugging a card reader and inserting a CF card caused KDE to hang.
> If this repeats, I will file a bug.
>
> That desktop window which shows all the folders/files on one's desktop?
> That kind of appears to hand if I work on some of the folders there and
> also on a terminal.
>
> Any other experiences worth sharing?
>   

I still haven't figured out how to get KDM going again.  It is running 
but fails on not finding moreblue-orbit.  I have to start xdm to get the 
GUI up.

I notice that the style of "System settings" seems to be borrowed from OSX.

Paul Scott