KDE 4.9 Is Faster & More Responsive

[not.sure]

Since we have the KDE fan/expert crowd on here:

Does kwin finally have a decent desktop zoom? Exactly like compiz's Enhanced Zoom Desktop plugin? Pre-defined zoom levels accesible via shortcuts, animated and smooth zoom-in and out to any level, and configurable mouse tracking?

Last time I checked (4.8, I guess) all I could find was some 'effect' (?? wtf? it's not a toy or an 'effect', it's an accessibility feature!!) that did zoom but it was the same horrble un-ergonomic half-baked clumsy crap that was in 4.0, nowhere near the compiz plugin.

[Prescience500]

You must not be using the same KDE I've been using. I find that apps start quickly, the UI is responsive, and it's actually fairly well-organized. I'm getting tired of the trope that KDE is bloated (even though it's measure to be no worse than GNOME or even XFCE these days), that it's slow or that it has too many buttons and menus. If you want a dumbed down interface with no fuss, just buy a Mac.

I think that most of the people who have issues with KDE being slow don't have enough RAM. That is KDE's biggest flaw. It uses huge amounts of RAM. Last I checked nepomuk slows things down too, but that's easy enough to disable. I'd say that KDE isn't bloated so much as it runs too much all the time. For instance, i don't need or want Akonodi (which consumes a huge amount of the RAM I've mentioned) running if I'm not using Kontact or something. I'd rather have the option to only run these components on demand, not all the time. It opens when I open kontact, it closes when I close kontact.

Btw, I can't speak for anyone else, but the Quick Access plasma widget is so amazing. I'm so spoiled on it that any time I use any other desktop envirnment, I get really impatient and flustered because I have to go through all of these extra steps to access documents and what not.

[siride]

KDE is still far to bloated, sluggish and unstable to be considered a usable desktop environment. This latest update does nothing to address these flaws. The only sane desktops for power users and those who want to get work done are Xfce, LXDE and Cinnamon. The rest are junk.

You must not be using the same KDE I've been using. I find that apps start quickly, the UI is responsive, and it's actually fairly well-organized. I'm getting tired of the trope that KDE is bloated (even though it's measure to be no worse than GNOME or even XFCE these days), that it's slow or that it has too many buttons and menus. If you want a dumbed down interface with no fuss, just buy a Mac.

[leech]

KDE is still far to bloated, sluggish and unstable to be considered a usable desktop environment. This latest update does nothing to address these flaws. The only sane desktops for power users and those who want to get work done are Xfce, LXDE and Cinnamon. The rest are junk.

Actually for power users, the only real sane one IS KDE.. at least out of the full blown DEs. Most power users actually use something like openbox or fluxbox, etc. Most Linux Power users would be happy with a screen full of terminals.

I actually run Gnome-shell simply because it gets out of my way more than any of the other DEs. Although sometimes a little too far out of my way (like missing chat notifications), but there are fixes for that.

Unfortunately now Gnome-shell has programmed my brain to utilize the super key to launch the dashboard, so when I try to use KDE or any other Linux DE, it slows me down..

Anyone know if there still isn't a way to make KDE use that key as a way to open up the launcher?

leech

[Prescience500]

KDE has improved remarkably since I've started using it. Great leaps in advancements in software features, greatly improved stability, and performance. As far as performance goes, I think the main areas of concern left are Kwin compositing and RAM usage. I can't wait to see those issues finally resolved. KDE's easily has the most potential among the DE's. If it's few rough edges go away, then maybe we can start geting people to come back to KDE from Gnome.

[seraphim]

KDE is an embarassment

KDE is still far to bloated, sluggish and unstable to be considered a usable desktop environment. This latest update does nothing to address these flaws. The only sane desktops for power users and those who want to get work done are Xfce, LXDE and Cinnamon. The rest are junk.

[e8hffff]

In love with KDE, here!

[siride]

Moste bugs that affects connection and displaing contacs relay on telepathy for example telepathy gabble is buggy like a hell gtalk and facebook chat don't work.

Periods and commas are your friends.

[Thaodan]

Have you reported those issues to https://bugs.kde.org/ ?

Moste bugs that affects connection and displaing contacs relay on telepathy for example telepathy gabble is buggy like a hell gtalk and facebook chat don't work.

[droste]

I'm tired and probably not reading too carefully

This.

He clearly said:
"I was also curious to see whether KWin compositing window manager improvements for KDE 4.9 had any benefit to running OpenGL full-screen games."

which I understand as "I'm aware of the fact that responsiveness does not mean faster games, but give it a try".

And got the result:
"Yes, indeed, KDE 4.9 feels much nicer! [...] there wasn't any major change in performance"