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Originally posted by BlackStar View PostThis sentence is surreal.
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Originally posted by Adarion View PostAs we say in .de the devs should come back to the carpet (from being afloat) and style a running KDE for the average hardware/software stack that people are running today. That would not exclude optional fancy stuff.
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Originally posted by kayosiii View PostOut of curiosity which graphics drivers are you using. The key difference I am aware of with kwin is that it requires some new features than compiz which some drivers don't do overly well.
I'd still prefer to a fixed KWin, though.
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Originally posted by mat69 View PostOriginally posted by AdarionAs we say in .de the devs should come back to the carpet (from being afloat) and style a running KDE for the average hardware/software stack that people are running today. That would not exclude optional fancy stuff.
Uhm, not so sure about it. You may remember that big bug/request about fake transparency (not a KWin example, I guess). The problem was that the only way to get that kind of eye candy is through compositing. The answer from KDE people was around the lines of "abandon your ancient hardware and buy a new graphics card". They only had to add: "and develop the drivers". They even got a patch to add this feature--which I happened to like and use in KDE 3.5 times--but they didn't accept it. It has to be said that KDE4 has some nice effects here and there that don't require compositing, though.
Similar story with KWin's compositing effects. They are slow and some of them need I don't know what super-advanced features. Compiz people somehow got it right. I understand that the developer of KWin is a volunteer, and unfortunately he doesn't know how to implement those features in such a way that most people would enjoy an optimal desktop experience. But at least let's get the record straight.
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Originally posted by BlackStar View PostThis sentence is surreal.
As for KDE 4.6, I wish KWin would somehow double in performance. Kwin is the greatest stumbling block when moving from Gnome/Compiz to KDE: with the former, Opera, Firefox and Chrome scroll 100% smoothly (85fps on my monitor). With the latter, all three browsers fall to half or one third that rate and feel awful.
After upgrading my Laptop to 4GB RAM my MTRRs are set up in such a way that X can't set up a write-combining range for the video memory anymore, causing a noticable loss of performance /proc/mtrr with 2GB: reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x7f700000 (2039MB), size= 1MB: uncachable, count=1 reg02: base=0x7f800000 (2040MB), size= 8MB: uncachable, count=1 reg03: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: write-combining, count=1 (last range added by ...
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Originally posted by Adarion View PostI use 4.4.5 / 4.4.7
Originally posted by Adarion View PostAnd: Kick that g'dam HAL out! Make "semantic-desktop" optional.
Originally posted by Adarion View PostI don't remember correctly
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Originally posted by Mr James View PostNo shit. There is a bug with the ATI proprietary driver that causes the mother of all annoyances - minimmmize a window and restore it, tada: X crashes. Solution? Disable (took me a while to figure this one) minimize effects in KWin.
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